New Year’s Eve gig tonight…. If there is nothing to report I’d be shocked.
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Month: December 2004
You’re having a drink at the local establishment. Next thing you know you’ve been thrown out on the street because you happen to be the only Yoko Ono fan in the world. It happened.
My band was playing the best live music club in town with a pretty large crowd on hand. Our singer is quite good at “working” an audience with some comments and humor between tunes. One of the things he often says before we play a Beatles song is “why would anyone shoot John Lennon when they had a clear shot at Yoko Ono?” (a valid question I must say)
Upon his delivery of this question someone in the audience yells out “F**K YOU.” Our singer, not to be outdone yells “F**K YOU TOO.” This goes back and forth and our singer says “Jesus Christ, we have the only Yoko Ono fan in the world in our audience…I remember what it was like when I had my first beer too.”
Yoko Ono fan: “F**K YOU”
Singer: “Why are you messing with me? Do I go to your job and rock the slurpee machine?” (audience laughs).
Yoko Ono fan: “F**K YOU”
Singer: “Come up here buddy, let’s make up.”
Yoko Ono fan comes up to the stage…
Singer: “I had a guy like you last night only he had a human head!”
Yoko Ono fan takes a drunken swing at our singer and finds himself being tossed out of the bar by the bouncers.
That’s what you get for being the only Yoko Ono fan in the world.
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Christmas Eve in my back yard
Do you have a nice view in your back yard?
This is what my back yard looks like this Christmas Eve…
Tonights gig was at a new club for me. The other two guys in the band had played there before when I had a sub though.
The club was a pretty cool place and it was packed. I was happy to see an awesome crowd. One of the worst things to have to do as a musician is play in front of no crowd. Our poor bass player has been suffering from pneumonia and he did a great job.
An old pal of mine Jason dropped in to the show tonight from Scottsdale, AZ. Jason is the marketing manager for Fender Audio. Jason is also a crazy guy who had a really cool punk surf band a while back. I let him know about the happenings with this blog and the forum section and he said he would try to link from Fender’s site and he’d post some news in the forums! He also jumped up on stage and sang a song with us tonight (see pic).
There is a stereotype of rock & roll musicians that we always get hot chicks. That’s nice but sometimes there are some “other” types of chicks that are into the band as well. Tonight was a prime example.
There was this obnoxious chick who was drunk as hell. She had the hots for our bass player and stood in front of him almost all night. Finally her mullet ridden boyfriend came up and grabbed her and dragged her away from the stage. I managed (while still playing the drums) to snap this pic (below) right when he grabbed her around her head. They both bit the dust by the side of the stage and couldn’t get up for quite some time…
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Multitasking
I’m multitasking right now. Playing chess with my daughter, posting here and watching “modern marvels.” Modern Marvels is one of seemingly very few TV programs worth watching these days.
I’ve been on a news posting frenzy over in the Pro Sound Blog FORUMS. If you haven’t yet, please visit the FORUMS and join in.
Tomorrow night is a gig at a new club I haven’t played at before. I wonder if there will be a decent crowd. A report will follow.
I’ve got to hit the local drum shop tomorrow because I broke my snare head at the last gig. I was going to post a link to my pal’s drum shop, but they apparently don’t have a web site. Perhaps I need to talk to them…