A few years ago I played with an Irish Bar Band. They had just lost 2 of their Irish brethren and needed musicians fast! The make-up then was One actual Dubliner, one Glaswegian, and one Canadian (me). The band leader knew that I had done some radio voice-overs in dialect, and asked me to affect an Irish accent whenever I spoke on stage. Tricky to do, but I tried. One night on a gig the manager of the club took me to task for not being Irish, and I panicked. In those days the clubs knew that Irish (Clancy style) bands meant full houses. I sort of laughed for about two seconds while trying to think of something to say and then I told him I'd been living in New York for so long that I'd kind of lost my accent! He said "what county are you from?" Oops, couldn't think of one. The next day I got replaced. Not by an Irishman.. but another Glaswegian!

Rick