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|    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              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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