Country Music Band Booking Prank
6:57A party planner insists an R&B band play country music, leading to a standoff.
Transcript
155 linesJust give a lovely man.
Give the drummer song.
All right.
Give the drummer something.
Hello.
I'm trying to meet uh reach uh uh uh Richie.
Hey Richie, how you doing?
the um drummer for the for the band?
Yes I am, yes I am.
What I can do.
All right.
And you also the the guy that that you manage you the manager of the band too, right?
Correct, correct, correct.
What's up?
Okay.
All right.
All right.
We want to book you guys for I think it's gonna be in February.
All right.
All right.
February 16.
That's I mean the my name's Carter.
They told you I was gonna be calling?
I think so, yeah.
Okay.
Well let's tell you what we're gonna go through a little check miners list here, make sure we on the same page and we got everything's gonna be good that night.
But I hear you guys you got I'll tell you something.
You guys come highly recommended.
You know that don't you?
I appreciate that.
We know that we we the best out there.
It's all good.
Sounds all good.
Sounds perfect.
All right now let's talk about money because that's always the most crucial thing to talk about.
Now you guys sound good uh you guys are supposed to be what about what 3500 from what I understand?
Correct.
All right how many how many hours do I get you for 3500?
So what time we starting at?
We're gonna start at we're gonna start seven probably 730 you know get that thing jumping off by 730.
I think that's gonna be good.
Yeah we could play till like I guess put out 10 o'clock.
730 to 10 okay yeah I'm I'm gonna tell you something they not gonna get going good till about 10.
So I'm gonna say I'm gonna say this to you right now.
You think you guys could probably go to midnight maybe 1230 if I if I make that thing a nice five thousand dollars?
Sounds good to me.
We could definitely work with that.
You can work with that yeah yeah we'll we'll accommodate it's gonna be an awesome party we're gonna we're gonna bring up this okay we got that out of the way I tell you what I think the main thing that we haven't gone over is we haven't gone over the songs.
And that's what's that's what's gonna be important for this showdown.
Now you you you can I you got a pen and a pad you can write this down?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'll write it down.
I'll write it down.
Give me a second.
No, go ahead.
Go ahead.
Do what you got.
All right, yeah, yeah, I got all right, I'm ready.
I just wanna be clear.
You you guys, when you go when you guys go do gigs, you do have people that want certain uh songs.
Am I right or wrong?
Yeah, usually, yeah.
Uh if you got any requests, definitely let us know.
We can accommodate.
All right, well, here we go.
Uh here we go.
I uh I want you to write this down.
I got I got something that we gotta make sure.
This is gonna be doing the hide of the party.
Here we go.
Okay.
Friends in Low Places by Garf Brooks.
Okay.
Okay.
Tennessee whiskey, that's Chris Stapleton.
You know that.
Okay.
My kind of party, that's Jason Aldean.
Hold on for a second.
Is that country music?
You know that's country music.
Well, that's that that's that that that's everything we gonna do.
Everything we gonna do that Saturday night is gonna be f country music.
Bro, I gotta tell you right now, man, R and B.
That's our specialty.
Did you not know that?
You know what I'm saying?
We replaced R and B.
You did not know that?
Oh I I I uh all I know is you guys come highly recommend it.
They tell me you guys can say any thing in the world.
All I know is I want some dad gum country I want some dad gun country music going on out here.
I understand that, but you know our specialty is an R and B.
That's our specialty.
You know what I'm saying?
It's uh it's not like we're trained monkeys when we can just learn something new last minute like that.
You know what I'm saying?
Let's get one thing understood.
You're the person that said monkey.
I ain't said about no, yo.
I'm just no, I just I didn't know, right?
And you know that we're up an R and D band.
That's our big thing.
That's what we promote ourselves as.
Let me ask you something, Richie.
I don't like being disrespected though.
You know what I'm saying?
No, no, nobody's disrespecting you at all.
You're just we're an RB band.
We don't f with country.
You know what I'm saying?
Hang on here, Richie.
You got something here's country music.
I have no problem with country music.
It's just that we have a full horn section, which doesn't really work with country music.
You know what I'm saying?
We play RB.
It's not our genre.
You know what I mean?
I got I got what you're used to doing, but if I don't hear uh uh uh uh let me see your girl by Cole Swindale, then
that that's it ain't gonna work for me.
I gotta get that, I gotta get Slowburn by Tim Hicks.
I gotta get all my rowdy friends to come in over by uh Hank Williams.
I mean that yo, you know what?
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Kevin's over at the bank is telling me that you guys can sing anything in in the world.
Now I know you ain't telling me that Kevin's lying.
I mean, he maybe he should have told you explicitly what we do and what we play.
You know what I'm saying?
I I've never met anybody in my life without playing a problem playing Garb Brooks, Chris Stapleton, Jason Aldean, Brooks and Dunn, Blake Shelton, Cole Swindale, Lady A.
You gonna sit here and tell me you can't play none of these songs.
I want you to get on the stage and sing this songs that we won't know.
We ain't got time to find another group.
Everybody, I don't give a f about your stupid party.
You know what I'm saying?
I you came to us to play music, and then we told you what we do.
Hang on, hang on.
You know, right now I feel like I feel like we had a standoff at the M OK Corral.
What the fight.
Uh uh, let me let me talk to my band, alright, because this is going to Going unnecessary too far.
You know what I'm saying?
Maybe we can make it work.
All right, well, let me let me ask you something.
Is Dre the bass player?
Yeah, correct.
Okay.
Can I tell you something about Dre?
What about him?
Trey got me to prank phone call you.
This is Nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey morning show, baby.
You just got pranked by your boy in the band, Dre.
Oh.
Okay, I gotta ask you something, man.
What is the baddest, and I mean the baddest radio show in the land.
Steve Harvey Morning Show.