Re: Where's everyone playing tonight?
- From: "John Shaughnessy" <johngoogleplexNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 20:29:39 GMT
Wow. I've played a lot of scary biker bars, but never actually IN a
clubhouse. Watch your back, man.
Can you tell us the name of the MC?
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"Jonathan" <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "John Shaughnessy" <johngoogleplexNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Me: As I mentioned before, Got a violin-vocal/guitar/bass trio that I'm
> > not
> > happy about. Worst part is, I have open bar privileges, and this is the
> > one
> > night of the year I can't "forget my troubles", as it were. *ugh* Plus,
I
> > have a church gig at 8AM on NYD, so I need all my faculties for that.
> >
> >
> > So, how about you?
>
> I have a gig with my blues / classic rock trio at a biker gang's
private
> clubhouse. So right off the bat you know it will be somewhere between
> "interesting" and "dangerous." Second, he's (the singer / bandleader)
> bringing his wife in to sing. She's great and I work with her own band,
but
> her husband doesn't know her songs and doesn't have the ability to play
> them...they are all R&B tunes with tight breaks, key changes, etc. and we
> have never played them with this drummer before. Train wreck city, just
> wait and see...Even worse, I think she's getting a cut of our pay.
> He booked us for 5 hours instead of the usual 4 and we're making just
> slightly more than a regular bar gig, so I may have the worst paying
> "professional" NYE gig in town. AND I get to work an extra hour. These
> bikers like to get the band to keep going even after the agreed upon
cutoff
> time too, sometimes they'll fork over an extra $50 for the extra 45-60
> minutes, but after 5 hours it'll be ugly, especially since the singer
drinks
> and "parties" a lot.
> To sum up my NYE gig: bad pay, lame band, VERY lame material (the big
> new song debut for the gig is Born to be Wild), extra work, husband / wife
> drama, dangerous violent criminal audience, drunk (and more) bandleader,
no
> dignity.
> -Jonathan
> www.badspatula.com
>
>
.
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