BS: The start of Silly Season

Subject: The start of Silly Season
From: DonMeixner
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 09:07 AM

Afre 30 years as a band The Flyin Column has had a few unusual gigs. Some were just odd, some memorable, some will never be described outside The Book of the Damned. We once drove to Warren County Pa. to play for a wedding. Nothing odd there except it was for a group of people from Alberta, Canada, of English extracrion, with no connection to Pennsylvania at all. Why they came from Canada to Pa for wedding and hired an Irish rebel band from upstate New York still escapes me.

Wednesday we began our March Crunch. We played a bar calle Galloway's and had a great time. The place is a biker bar pure and simple. A place where Bikers and their Chicks go to unwind, discuss stocks, gas grills, sell Girl Scout Cookies and listen to fine Irish music. Here, the site of all these people in jeans, sawed of denim jackets, club names on their shirts, many with bellies that deserved a private introduction doing the hand signs to The Unicorn and Rhe Wild Rover was surreal at best. Like you might see in a Conn brothers film.

The upshot is 4 middle aged guys were treated like Old Pals and give every courtesy imaginable. And when the demanded an Encore, we complied.

Don

Subject: RE: BS: The start of Silly Season
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 11:19 AM

Don,

thanks for taking us along!

My husband has done weddings and baptisms such as you describe. There usually turns out to be some tenuous connection with the church-- someone may have had a distant relative who belonged, and maybe they went there once as a child and always wanted to be hitched there, that sort of thig. Or it turns out to be a handy central location for farflung folks to come to, thus no one gets miffed because Aunt Crabbie wouldn't come because the wedding hadn't been held at her home church in Boofoo.

No Irish bands, but there was one Blues Brothers theme wedding. I didn't know Hardiman then, I'll have to ask about the reception music, but I am sure the wedding rehearsal was a hoot. The wedding party was all tricked out as Blues Brothers, except in white, we have the foto. Sadly this match did not last, I think the bride just couldn't take it!

Subject: RE: BS: The start of Silly Season
From: Caitrin
Date: 04 Mar 00 - 02:58 PM

A blues brothers wedding? Oh my. And I thought it was bad when my ex-boyfriend and his best friend were Jake and Elwood at the prom!