Same junk happens with me. My friends brag how great of a keyboard player I am. So whenever there is a piano, people want me to play something. Sounds reasonable right? Not when you are synth player, and play mostly rock music, where you need the other insturments to make your sound complete. They expect classical music, I gave them "Jump". I usually improvise and exaggerate the hell out of the keyboard solo, so it looks like I am some prodigy.

It's so much easier with the guitar. Everyone out where I live loves simple 3 powerchord songs. They shun guitar solo's, and I doubt I am exaggerating that. A simple "Smoke on the Water" and everybody wows my skill bwhahaha