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   Message 833 of 1,456   
   Ouisie to JimD   
   Re: another regular gig checked in   
   29 Oct 17 19:08:25   
   
   From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017102900482331268-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > None of the places we work are crummy. They're pretty much all top of the   
   > line gigs.  Partly that's because we don't have to work low end gigs, and   
   > anyway, band girl wouldn't go.   
      
   I'm through with the  bottom feeder scene too.   
      
   > That's actually a lot of it.  If they could hear normally, they'd realize   
   > just how loud they are. But they can't, so they don't, so the denial that   
   > there is any problem.   
      
   At least they should hand out earplugs ;)   
      
   > We went to a new place tonight, a regular open to the public sometimes   
   > club gig.   
      
   Open to the pubic sometimes?   
      
   > Wanna guess what the man in charge told us about the bands ? He said the   
   > biggest problem they have with bands is they are almost all too loud.   
   > Yep. Told us that as we were talking and scheduling a gig there.  I didn't   
   > have to prompt him to say that either :-)  He offered right up that it's   
   > probably because musicians have played loud music so long and so loud that   
   > their ears are ruined. Not an idiot, that guy.   
      
   I'd say it's quite painfully obvious, literally.   
      
   > Spock with a beard, if I recall .....   
      
   That's the one.   
      
   > Libs.  That whole social group.  Nutty, libs.  The women would be hillary   
   > bots, but the men, and the younger ones rallied around ol' commie Bernie.   
      
   Oh, you must mean Bernie Sanders.   
      
   > They obviously didn't bother to look at the guys history at all.    She   
   > needed some weak opposition in the primaries, and Bernie was glad to play   
   > that part. In the end tho, he was just for sale. Hillary bought him a nice   
   > house and he dropped out of the race. Or something like that.   
      
   Hillary's hero was the for sale mercenary Saul Alinsky...guess she thinks   
   Whores are cool.   
      
   > you like in a bigger city than me.  better stores.   
      
   Not necessarily. Guitar Center never seems to have what I want in their   
   stores.   
      
   > Played there today. One of the owners talked to us on a break. Said they   
   > like us, said they are getting rid of some acts and would we like to pick   
   > up the slack, work there even more.  Sure. Mama didn't raise no fool.   
   > It's the same money as a band gig, per person, and offering me 12 or 15 of   
   > those, sure we'll take them.  Work them as a duo, easy, no hassle.   
      
   That's what I'm looking forward to too!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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