CrazyAces
Joined: Jul 31, 2012
Posts: 4054
Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted on May 03 2015 11:29 AM
Crazy Aces were playing at a car and motorcycle show this past weekend.
About mid set we hit our instrumental cover of "Money" by Barrett Strong.
Just as we were hitting the second verse we heard loud singing through the PA and monitors!
Perplexed and perturbed we looked around to find that the sound man had decided to pick up his announce mic and SING ALONG!
He sang the verse and chorus and then stopped but then repeated this act later when we played "Paint It Black".
Nutty stuff. At least he was in tune........
One of our fans actually caught him in the act
Weird!
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eddiekatcher
Joined: Mar 14, 2006
Posts: 2779
Atlanta, GA
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Posted on May 03 2015 12:23 PM
Hey Jeff,
We've had that happen too. Some years back we were playing at "Snellville Days" (Snellville....where everybody is somebody), no kidding, and we were about half way through what we called then, "The Trailer Park Surf Suite" which was a lot of vintage county song snippets arranged in a medley by ascending keys. We broke into San Antonio Rose when this little skinny OLD man jumped up on stage and started belting it out over the one mic set up in front of the band. We all looked at each other like.....what? Pretty soon it was a bit of a train wreck as our arrangement of the whole thing collided with what he was expecting.............. Snellville, figure.
Remember that one Woody?
ed
— Traditional........speak softly and play through a big blonde amp. Did I mention that I still like big blonde amps?
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mom_surfing
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 5324
the outer banks of north carolina
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Posted on May 03 2015 09:49 PM
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remora1
Joined: Jan 04, 2008
Posts: 1280
San Pedro, CA
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Posted on May 04 2015 09:13 AM
My first band was playing a house party around 1980 and we had a drunk guy grab the mic during "Pipeline" and start singing "I'm surfing Pipleline! I'm surfing Pipeline!" He belted it out about 4-5 times before our drummer clocked him hard in the back of the head with a fiercely thrown drumstick  .
— Bill S._______
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CrazyAces
Joined: Jul 31, 2012
Posts: 4054
Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted on May 04 2015 09:18 AM
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SanchoPansen
Joined: Jan 04, 2011
Posts: 1588
Berlin L-Berg
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Posted on May 05 2015 12:26 AM
Every time we play, there's a chick on stage with us who grabs a mic and starts singing...oh wait...she's our singer...we're doing non instro surf, maybe that's why. 
— The Hicadoolas
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da-ron
Joined: Jan 02, 2009
Posts: 1307
The original Plymouth, UK.
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Posted on May 05 2015 02:14 AM
We had that happen once. We were playing wipeout and a mate jumped on stage and started to sing Surfin' Bird... Somehow he made it work, though I'm glad no recordings exist of it!
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Surfgitar
Joined: Mar 16, 2007
Posts: 1342
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
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Posted on May 05 2015 02:37 PM
We always invite the audience to sing along, if they know the words.
— CUTBACK
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Badger
Joined: Nov 16, 2013
Posts: 4537
Wisconsin
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Posted on May 05 2015 05:37 PM
Surfgitar wrote:
We always invite the audience to sing along, if they know the words.
Some people seem to be adept at putting themselves in a "creative condition" that lets them boldly come up with words where none had gone before.
Jeff, that's a great story - and no, you're not alone.
— Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel
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Surfgitar
Joined: Mar 16, 2007
Posts: 1342
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
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Posted on May 06 2015 07:02 AM
Badger wrote:
Surfgitar wrote:
We always invite the audience to sing along, if they know the words.
Some people seem to be adept at putting themselves in a "creative condition" that lets them boldly come up with words where none had gone before.
Jeff, that's a great story - and no, you're not alone.
So true. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR9jN20RqJ4
— CUTBACK
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ravcon
Joined: Feb 20, 2010
Posts: 727
Charlotte, NC
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Posted on May 10 2015 09:05 AM
Kind of ballsy, but at least it was all in good fun!
— Mike
manfromravcon.com
Last edited: May 10, 2015 09:05:36
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CrazyAces
Joined: Jul 31, 2012
Posts: 4054
Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted on May 10 2015 09:20 AM
ravcon wrote:
Kind of ballsy, but at least it was all in good fun!
It was truly in good fun, no doubt but what a surprise as we had no idea for a minute where it was coming from.
Cheers,
Jeff
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Surfabilly
Joined: Apr 21, 2006
Posts: 852
Connersville, Indiana, USA
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Posted on May 10 2015 08:13 PM
Back when I'd still frequent IRC chats, one of my normal haunts was connected with a entirely Internet based radio station, with a chat-bot announcing the up coming song in chat. My joke, whenever an instrumental was up next, was along the lines of "trying to remember the words to 'Pipeline'...oh wait, that's instrumental." Another joke, to go along with the other, was "trying to remember the words to 'Tequila'...oh yeah...'Tequila!'" 
— Fast Cars & Loud Guitars!
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