The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #53259   Message #820248
Posted By: Glen Reid
06-Nov-02 - 04:35 PM
Thread Name: Road Musicians, just paying their dues!
Subject: RE: Road Musicians, just paying their dues!
The incident you mentioned Rick was and occurance that happened while I was playing in an Irish pub band. It was a Sat night in Boston, and the next thing I remember was waking up in a hotel room in Atlanta Ga

Now this was in the worst of what I call my WET PERIOD (living on the edge of lunacy, alcoholic haze days).
As it turns out I was seriously dating an airline stewartess( yes , that what they called them in those days). She later explained to me that I swore my love was so strong that I would follow her to the ends of the earth, starting that very night.
Trouble was Atlanta was just a layover for her and that where she left me.
Needless to say that relationship never made it, as did so many other things, in those wasted years.

Probably the most embarassing things that ever happened,was not to me personally, but to someone else.

In the early days, I was playing with a showband and we were doing a Sat. afternoon amatuer hour.It was a hot summer afternoon, and the place was packed.
This very drunk woman in her 50,s insisted on singing a song.
All she wore was a halter top and powder blue short shorts.
In the middle of her "I Did It My Way" rendition and to the horror of everone there, she suffered a moment of total incontinence.
Radiating outward from the groin area of those, powder blue short, shorts a dark stain quickly spread.
Totally unaware of what was happening to herself, with a professional flourish, she took her bows and sensually glance at me with a " how do you like me so far look"
Not something, I'll ever forget.
Gosh, I miss those days!
Glen