80% of digital modellers & c buyers are bedroom players according to marketing researches

Chocol8 said:
Oh come on, are you seriously telling us you don't secretly want to play one a thousand more takes of Mustang Sally for a bunch of obnoxiously drunk middle age women?
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Have never played it. Not even at home!!!
 
Mikael Dez said:
Idk what Mustang Sally even is, maybe that’s showing my age 😂
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Mikael Dez said:
Idk what Mustang Sally even is, maybe that’s showing my age 😂
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It's a rite of passage for anyone that has played in a cover band over the past sixty years or so. Something about people when they drink alcohol, their brains default to a very narrow and specific song list of requests. Mustang Sally, Sweet Home Alabama, Brown Eyed Girl, Free Bird, I could go on.
 
Frodebro said:
It's a rite of passage for anyone that has played in a cover band over the past sixty years or so. Something about people when they drink alcohol, their brains default to a very narrow and specific song list of requests. Mustang Sally, Sweet Home Alabama, Brown Eyed Girl, Free Bird, I could go on.
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Yep, even 50 yrs from now some jokester will scream "Free Bird!" from the audience. Count on it. :ROFLMAO:
 
FuzzyAce said:
Yep, even 50 yrs from now some jokester will scream "Free Bird!" from the audience. Count on it. :ROFLMAO:
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My old band did Free Bird exactly once, and it was an off-the-cuff, unrehearsed jam on the song. I think we stretched it out to 18 or twenty minutes. The guy who requested it bribed us with a tray full of double Cuervos to play the song, so we obliged him.
 
jay mitchell said:
TL/DR: we are pretty much all "home players" as long as we practice on a regular basis. Some of us play in other environments as well.

You're trying to make an obvious meaning far too specific. FYI, the phrase in the subject line is "bedroom player," which carries the implication that that's the only kind of place an individual plays. The word "bedroom" could be replaced by "living room," "garage," or "man cave" with no change in meaning. OTOH, the phrase I used - "gigging musician" - does not mean only people whose sole income is from music performance. I've known and worked with quite a few working musicians who made substantial portions of their income from nonmusical activities. I've been in that group myself at times. We were nonetheless working musicians. My definition of "working musician" means that you derive at least some of your income from musical activity, including performing live, recording, writing, arranging, and/or producing.

FYI, the distinction carries no stigma re:skill level. I've known some killer players who only ever play at home.
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We're not talking about semantic but statistcs.
The label "home player" is choosed by the resercher and applied to a subject following some criteria or self applied by the responder.

it just means "a player that moslly use the device at home for whatever reasons"

You're putting too much into this. ;)
 
Frodebro said:
It's a rite of passage for anyone that has played in a cover band over the past sixty years or so. Something about people when they drink alcohol, their brains default to a very narrow and specific song list of requests. Mustang Sally, Sweet Home Alabama, Brown Eyed Girl, Free Bird, I could go on.
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There's a bit of a chicken and egg situation with this though. All cover bands ever seem to do is play these old chod songs, and so people expect them to, and that's what they want.

But I reckon if you had a cover band playing exclusively late 90's and early 2000's rock, people would enjoy it much much more. Chuck in a doom metal version of Spice Up Your Life, and you're golden.
 
HotRats said:
We're not talking about semantic but statistcs.
The label "home player" is choosed by the resercher and applied to a subject following some criteria or self applied by the responder.

it just means "a player that moslly use the device at home for whatever reasons"

You're putting too much into this. ;)
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What? Jay being hyper literal? No way.
 
Orvillain said:
There's a bit of a chicken and egg situation with this though. All cover bands ever seem to do is play these old chod songs, and so people expect them to, and that's what they want.

But I reckon if you had a cover band playing exclusively late 90's and early 2000's rock, people would enjoy it much much more. Chuck in a doom metal version of Spice Up Your Life, and you're golden.
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I have a couple of friends in a cover band and outside of a couple of songs they pretty much don’t touch anything recorded before 1990. People love it. No Brown Eyed Girl necessary.
 
Frodebro said:
It's a rite of passage for anyone that has played in a cover band over the past sixty years or so. Something about people when they drink alcohol, their brains default to a very narrow and specific song list of requests. Mustang Sally, Sweet Home Alabama, Brown Eyed Girl, Free Bird, I could go on.
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FuzzyAce said:
Yep, even 50 yrs from now some jokester will scream "Free Bird!" from the audience. Count on it. :ROFLMAO:
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Frodebro said:
My old band did Free Bird exactly once, and it was an off-the-cuff, unrehearsed jam on the song. I think we stretched it out to 18 or twenty minutes. The guy who requested it bribed us with a tray full of double Cuervos to play the song, so we obliged him.
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Can someone explain the Freebird thing to me? How/why is it (apparently), "funny" to request it, and how did we get here?

I just ignore people at this point, when they request it, even so, it's hard sometimes when someone is holding up their phone with Freebird typed on it, for 3 songs straight.
 
ian_dissonance said:
I have a couple of friends in a cover band and outside of a couple of songs they pretty much don’t touch anything recorded before 1990. People love it. No Brown Eyed Girl necessary.
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We do this. Ironically, I, am the one who sings Sweet Caroline and Jessie's Girl, but most everything else we do is no older than 1990. I think we could expand a little.
 
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