Post #124320 by MachTiki on Mon, Nov 8, 2004 4:00 PM

The first one that comes to mind happened about three years ago. My band was hired to play a wedding by a woman that came out to see us quite a few times. She always had a great time at our shows and she was sure that her soon-to-be husband would love us as well.

When we showed up at the wedding, there were about four guys wearing cowboy hats and one of them was the groom. Panic set in because we only know about three contry songs. Immediately, we grabbed the wedding planner and asked to talk to the bride. We were ushered into the room where she was and we expressed our concern. She looked at us with this blank stare and said, "but, I thought you guys did a bunch of country songs?".

We were blown away that she would think that after seeing us play about a half-dozen times. She ensured us that there was nothing to worry about and just play the few country songs that we knew when everyone was dancing.

As it turned out, the groom wasn't all too thrilled that his wife had hired us. He was under the impression that we were a country band?!

Since that day, we make sure that whomever hires us signs-off a song list first.