[Dixielandjazz] ReStarts - how do you do them?

[Russ Guarino]

For me, it depends on the seriousness of the phopaw.

If it appears the guys will not find their way out, [ like 1/2 the guy are at the top an the rest are at some other place ]  I stop
the band and start over.

If I think the band can recover, I start playing real simple and emphasize the "1" of each measure.

Russ Guarino

David Richoux wrote:

> So I was watching the Paul Simon Gershwin Award broadcast on PBS
> (great show, BTW) and there was a major mishap  with Steve Wonder
> totally missing a cue. He made a little joke about not reading the
> cue-card and they started the song over from the start. I think this
> was not exactly a live show and they could have edited out this flub,
> but it was kept in the broadcast. I am OK with that.
>
> How do all of you other performers deal with a song-stopping level
> problem? Press on regardless, stop and start over, or what?   What
> happens when the drummer melts down or if the singer totally messes
> up a chorus? Hope that nobody will notice, the dancers will not be
> stumbling all over the floor, nobody cares that the song is in the
> wrong key, etc.
>
> It happens all of the time, even to the best of us  ;-)
>
> Dave Richoux
>
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