Never ask a question if you are not prepared for the answer!Anglo said:I've been invited to sit it with a band that is light years ahead of me and accepting would probably prove an embarrassment to everybody. Is it a common courtesy for them to ask with the understanding that I'll pass?
I love this quote. Can anyone help me verify the source?Sam said:"Risk is what moves us all forward. If you're playing in the comfort zone, that ain't jazz." -- Herbie Hancock
I think it was a recent Downbeat interview.johnnysax said:I love this quote. Can anyone help me verify the source?
With all due respect, I wish people would read questions more carefully. Whether I play with them is irrelevant. I was simply asking more experienced folks if this was the kind of thing done as a common courtesy. To make an analogy, when someone, say a clerk in a store, says, "How are you today?" I know he/she isn't interested in a lengthy description of my prostate gland; we're just exhanging pleasantries, and I reply, "Fine, how are you?" Being an outsider to the music world, I simply wondered if the invitation was a pleasantry.gary said:I wish when people ask for personal opinions they would give more information. :roll:
Have they heard you before? Seems to me that's some important and relevant information before you make a judgement...and before we can give an opinion that's not general in nature.
I agree Anglo. It must be Boston bashing or something.Anglo said:With all due respect, I wish people would read questions more carefully. Whether I play with them is irrelevant. I was simply asking more experienced folks if this was the kind of thing done as a common courtesy. To make an analogy, when someone, say a clerk in a store, says, "How are you today?" I know he/she isn't interested in a lengthy description of my prostate gland; we're just exhanging pleasantries, and I reply, "Fine, how are you?" Being an outsider to the music world, I simply wondered if the invitation was a pleasantry.
I highly doubt it was done as a pleasantry. It's possible, but unlikely. I know I would never ask someone to sit in if I wasn't totally serious about it. In fact, I go out of my way NOT to ask people to sit in until I know for sure how they play, and if the rest of the band will be into it. I don't think I'm alone on this. Most musicians and bands prefer not to have anyone sit in unless they are pretty sure the person sitting in will actually contribute to the music and help the band sound better.Anglo said:I was simply asking more experienced folks if this was the kind of thing done as a common courtesy.... I simply wondered if the invitation was a pleasantry.
Portland (Maine) Press Herald, October 30, 2003johnnysax said:I love this quote. Can anyone help me verify the source?
Fair enough. OTOH, including why they would be extending you the courtesy in the first place could be helpful info.Anglo said:With all due respect, I wish people would read questions more carefully...I was simply asking more experienced folks if this was the kind of thing done as a common courtesy.