# The SDMB Band **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 9, 2000, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-band/21890 "2000-06-09T18:00:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![tbea925](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@tbea925](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tbea925)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-band/21890/41 "2000-06-10T03:00:00Z")
I wanna join! Clarinet, Alto Sax, MIDI, arranging, whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Suo\_Na](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Suo\_Na](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suo_Na)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-band/21890/42 "2000-06-10T03:42:42Z")
Flute, tenor sax, coloratura soprano. And I once sang bass in a barbershop quartet (not in the original key, however). I do like the name Colour Blind Cubists. Too bad Motley Crue/Crew was already taken. Off topic, what does does one call a groupie for an orchestra? A symphette? ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-band/21890/43 "2000-06-10T03:50:08Z")
Can I be a backup singer? I don’t have much of a range, but you’ll never have to worry about me forgetting lyrics. Either that, or I want to be a roadie like Coldfire. I already have the right tour shirts to wear to be a Strange Dope roadie. ---
**Author:** ![blueslady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@blueslady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blueslady)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-band/21890/44 "2000-06-10T03:51:42Z")
Blueslady here! Sorry I’m late, did I miss the audition? brought my harmonica, 12 string guitar and my Appalachian dulcimer…how’s that for eclectic? ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-band/21890/45 "2000-06-10T04:22:22Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. They can (and should!) always wear the most obscure and off-topic tour t-shirts. You’re a roadie for Shania Twain? Slayer Decade of Agression shirt. Roadie for N Sync? Hank Williams US tour 1949. Roadie for Rush? Whitney Houston shirt. > 2. Roadies have key chains with at least 75 keys on them. > 3. Roadies can tune any instrument, and secretly play Angus Young behind the amps when doing so. > 4. Roadies get to swear, drink beer, drive big-ass trucks, have long greasy hair, and smoke pot all day. > 5. Roadies do not have to shave. > 6. Roadies get the groupies that don’t make it to the dressing room. Hi Moosie > 7. Roadies get to whine and bitch all day about how much better Rush would have done it This is all true but the guys in the band get laid more (especially the lead guitarist)😃 Hey i’m drunk tonight and lovin it! ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-band/21890/46 "2000-06-10T05:27:46Z")
Oboe! Get your red hot oboe player here! Oboe! Oboe! I’d also like to be a back up roadie in case one of the real roadies wants to take a bath or shave or anything. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-band/21890/47 "2000-06-10T05:31:12Z")
Mmm…I’m a flutist. I can also play piccolo, but only when people deserve it. And mallet percussion, anyone need a xylophonist? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-band/21890/48 "2000-06-10T05:40:25Z")
Scottish chanter here, working up to the bagpipes (what’s that? you want me to join the rehearsal from outside? well, okay…) ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-band/21890/49 "2000-06-10T06:49:17Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. Roadies can tune any instrument, and secretly play Angus Young behind the amps when doing so. Once again, Coldfire’s balls-on depiction of the rock lifestyle makes me think he’s really Geddy Lee posting on the down-low. Only big arena concert I’ve ever been to was Aerosmith, and the roadie tested out the guitar by playing the opening lick to “Thunderstruck” a few times. Most impressive. I see that lead singer has already been called. Damn. I was looking for an excuse to wear leather pants. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-band/21890.md?page=2)