Once a band convinces its audience that it is approachable, the requests begin. Muchas requestas, as they say in Tijuana. Sometimes they're reasonable ("Brown Eyed Girl!" at least once per show), sometimes they're ridiculous ("Talk Dirty to Me," a 12-year-old boy repeatedly demanded of Peter. "What, and spend the rest of my life in PRISON? ...oh, that's a song?), but what unites most of them is that the Illbillys almost always say NO!
The setlist is a delicate, finely-tuned entity, found only in the remote jungles of Paraguay and gently hand-carried to the Illbillys. Wanton and unnecessary inclusion of every lumpen, unpolished song that comes to an audience member's mind would leave the gossamer-winged setlist a bloody shambles...but just try explaining THAT to a 12-year-old on a sugar high.
Despite this established fact, the Illbillys did play an impromptu version of "Sweet Home Alabama" at their last Woodlake Friday Cheers show, to the discomfort of several band members and the vast appreciation of the audience, and word must have gotten out...because these three girls asked for the song as well. It seemed churlish to deny them, partially because it had been established that the Illbillys could sort of play the song, but mostly because the girls were really cute. And really larcenous; see how one of 'em ripped the tamborine out of poor little Andrew's hands?
The setlist is a delicate, finely-tuned entity, found only in the remote jungles of Paraguay and gently hand-carried to the Illbillys. Wanton and unnecessary inclusion of every lumpen, unpolished song that comes to an audience member's mind would leave the gossamer-winged setlist a bloody shambles...but just try explaining THAT to a 12-year-old on a sugar high.
Despite this established fact, the Illbillys did play an impromptu version of "Sweet Home Alabama" at their last Woodlake Friday Cheers show, to the discomfort of several band members and the vast appreciation of the audience, and word must have gotten out...because these three girls asked for the song as well. It seemed churlish to deny them, partially because it had been established that the Illbillys could sort of play the song, but mostly because the girls were really cute. And really larcenous; see how one of 'em ripped the tamborine out of poor little Andrew's hands?