Klarinet Archive - Posting 000107.txt from 1999/01

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl] So I have to tell you about my New Year's gig!
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 15:41:51 -0500

Teri Herel wrote,
>Ah well. I watched the New Year roll in on my car clock with the heat
cranked high and the local radio station (the only one I could get) playing
Cherry Poppin Daddies, on my way to the Bates Motel....>

W. Grabner wrote,
>>Teri, thanks for reminding me why I don't play gigs anymore.

>>My last gig was a policeman's ball where half the men wound puking up their
beer on the dance floor and the women were having eye-gouging fights in the
lobby. The band wanted to leave at 1:00 am but they wouldn't let us. Were we
going to argue with 200 drunk men carrying guns?>>

LOL! --although these gigs must have been poor comedy at the time. You've
reminded me why I should quit feeling sorry for myself and be glad I'm (a) too
frightened and (b) too incompetent to play in public. (I like the Cherry
Poppin' Daddies, FTR, but not on the car stereo en route to Motel Hell on New
Year's.) The cat isn't such a bad audience, even if she does strop her claws
in my case if I forget to shut it. She thinks the clarinet is a recorder that
made a deal with the Devil and the soprano sax is a clarinet that made a deal
with the vaccuum cleaner, but at least she hasn't learned to use a gun (yet).

Lelia
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"I know two kinds of audience only -- one coughing and one not coughing."
--Artur Schnabel, _My Life and Music_, 1961.

Make that: one puking and one not puking?
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