A couple of years ago my wife and I were invited to a friends surprise 70th birthday weekend at a hotel down on the coast. Unbeknown to me it turned out to be a tribute weekend and yes you guessed it the headline "act" were an Abba tribute band. Now if there is anything worse than Abba it is a Abba tribute band.
I had a few drinks and stayed there for about 15 mins just to be polite then made my excuses and wandered off to the lounge bar in the hotel.
There was the barman me and a lone piano player who not having an audience was tinkering away on the keyboard just playing stuff that he was into and enjoying not having to churn out the usual musak crap. Turned out he liked amongst others, Billy Joel, Tom Waites, Rufus Wainright and last but not least Bruce.
Ended up me the barman and the piano player doing a bottle of scotch whilst he played track after classic track. Mary came to find me an hour or so later just as the piano player was stood on his stool banging out Jerry Lee Lewis.
I will tell you my Abba story.
A couple of years ago my wife and I were invited to a friends surprise 70th birthday weekend at a hotel down on the coast. Unbeknown to me it turned out to be a tribute weekend and yes you guessed it the headline "act" were an Abba tribute band. Now if there is anything worse than Abba it is a Abba tribute band.
I had a few drinks and stayed there for about 15 mins just to be polite then made my excuses and wandered off to the lounge bar in the hotel.
There was the barman me and a lone piano player who not having an audience was tinkering away on the keyboard just playing stuff that he was into and enjoying not having to churn out the usual musak crap. Turned out he liked amongst others, Billy Joel, Tom Waites, Rufus Wainright and last but not least Bruce.
Ended up me the barman and the piano player doing a bottle of scotch whilst he played track after classic track. Mary came to find me an hour or so later just as the piano player was stood on his stool banging out Jerry Lee Lewis.
Turned out to be a great weekend!