The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #53259   Message #820890
Posted By: JedMarum
07-Nov-02 - 01:33 PM
Thread Name: Road Musicians, just paying their dues!
Subject: RE: Road Musicians, just paying their dues!
Years ago, playing in a band - in between the first two sets we had to play for the stripper - who did a 20 minutes show each break. One night the room was jammed packed with kids (they'd just lowered the drinking age in Massachussetts and all the kids were out spending Dad's money on too much drink).

The kids were quite unruley, and rude as hell, especially toward the dancer ... This stripper was a petite but fiesty looking woman - and as she walked off the stage, some young strap leaning back in his chair obviously made a comment she didn't like because without even breaking her stride she hauled off and back handed him across the face and chest - sent the young buck flying over in his chair into a heap on the floor - in a daze. Great shot! I always wished I couldda had a film of that, it was soo perfect!

The young lady just kept on walking into the dressing room while the drunken fool tried to pick himself up off the floor, probably wondering how he got there. His friends, of course, thought the whole incident hillarious. Me too!

We kept on playin' Black Magic Woman ...