There was another guy at a gig some time ago.... REALLY dug "Sonny's Dream"... asked me for it when he came in....

"Well mate, I just played it 2 or 3 songs ago, but I'll tell you what, I'll end the set with it." Which I did. Before the song was over he left a pint of Guinness by the stage with a 5er wrapped around it....

I finished the set, left the 'stage', shook his hand and said thanks!!

On my way back up after break, he stopped me, and with an almost appologetic look offered his hand to me and asked "Would you play it again". When I shook his hand there was another bill in it. This time a 10er. "Um... sure mate. I can do that" (It was a cruddy little bar gig and a LOT of people there really couldn't care less if I'da lit my nuts on fire and pissed Glenfiddich)

So I started off that set with Sonny's Dream.... 3 songs later he tossed a 20 in my 'jar' and asked "again?" So at that piont, I figured what the hell.... if HE want's to pay that kinda bread for Sonny's Dream and nobody else in the place gives a shit, -I'd- be a moron to not play it.

By the time the night was over, I think I'd had 80 or so bucks off the guy, not to mention 2 or 4 pints and a couple of shot of Tully... The money was more than half what the owner paid me, when he shook my hand at the end of the night and said "Good show tonight, Clinton. Thanks!"

Is that over-the-top enough?