BS: Damnit Damnit DAMNIT!

Subject: Damnit Damnit DAMNIT!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 30 Nov 01 - 12:58 PM

Ignore this thread... I'm just virtually punching my pillow!!

I coulda had a gig playing solo or with my band 4th Street on new years eve, but the front guy of the other band I play in said he had us a fairly lucrative gig lined up for us at the college... well, today I get email from him saying that there is no new years eve gig!!!

Bugger!

I was looking forward to that one... He was setting us up to play for some of his family from Ireland, and that alone woulda been really cool...

so once again....

Damnit Damnit DAMNIT!

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From: Amos
Date: 30 Nov 01 - 01:40 PM

Bugger, indeed, CH -- my sympathies. Just breath deep and let a new one show up.

A

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From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 30 Nov 01 - 02:05 PM

well... at this rate, I'm gonna expect to have my New Years Eve off...

Ya ever notice how much louder ya play when yer ticked?!?!?

LOL!!!!!!!

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From: Bert
Date: 30 Nov 01 - 02:09 PM

Bummer Clinton, What you need now is that Tourette's Chicken that Seamus sings about.

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From: Rick Fielding
Date: 30 Nov 01 - 02:15 PM

Sorry Clinton. Been there....it sucks. Short of killing the guy (which means finding another player) nuthin' you can do.

Rick

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From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 30 Nov 01 - 02:35 PM

Not just another player... another FRONT guy!

LOL!!!!!!

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From: CarolC
Date: 30 Nov 01 - 04:25 PM

I do play louder when I'm ticked. A lot louder. But when that happens, it's my neighbors who suffer the most, and I pity them for it.

Subject: RE: BS: Damnit Damnit DAMNIT!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 30 Nov 01 - 04:29 PM

LOL!!

I had my new upstairs neighbour come down and ask me if I'd mind turing the CD player down a bit!

How's THAT for a compliment eh!

LOL!!!!!!

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From: gnu
Date: 30 Nov 01 - 04:46 PM

I'd give up a good gig to have Clarence back. He passed the night before last. The old bugger could sing and tell stories and COOK !!! Really cook. He was a cook in WWII and ran a kitchen in his back yard... in a building, of course. Poutines rappes, meat pies, pastries, anything. Many's a night we drank, sang and scoffed at Clarence's kitchen. He used to make a coconut cream pie (pie shell pre-prepared) in five minutes that would melt your tongue.

Clinton... there'll be something come up. Things always work out for the best. Even with ol Clary. He's in a better place and not suffering any more.

Oh ya, we'll being playing reeeeealy loud tonight, too.

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From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Nov 01 - 07:59 PM

I've had Black Sabbath going off in my head all week!!

LTS

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From: Irish sergeant
Date: 01 Dec 01 - 03:07 PM

Damn it is right. Hell, Clinton, that sounds almost as bad as writer's block. Hope it works out for you. Neil

Subject: RE: BS: Damnit Damnit DAMNIT!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 01 Dec 01 - 04:07 PM

That's the short definition of angst eh... a writer who can't write....

,-)

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From: Terry K
Date: 02 Dec 01 - 01:36 PM

I'm with Rick. The guy's got to be killed.

Or you could just get pissed on New Year's eve like the rest of us.

Terry

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From: SharonA
Date: 03 Dec 01 - 01:20 PM

Aw, poop, Clinton! Sorry to hear that. Here's hoping another New Year's Eve gig will open up for you... something even more lucrative!

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From: Cappuccino
Date: 03 Dec 01 - 01:44 PM

Apart from the sheer bad luck of things like this, it's amazing how much dirty work still goes on with duplicate gigs, and not just from agents. I've come across a guy who accepts every job offered to him, whether they clash or not... then on the night, he selects the best paid and plays it, ringing up all the others and apologising for being ill.

And an incredible number of musicians were out of work in England on Millennium Eve. Bookers were planning shows like crazy, thinking they'd sell truckloads of tickets... and then they didn't. Dozens of bands who had signed up for a gig six months ahead suddenly found at the last moment that they what they thought would be the most profitable night of their careers, had turned into a night off.

Hope a really good booking comes in, mate.

- Ian B

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From: Fortunato
Date: 03 Dec 01 - 03:27 PM

Well, Clinton, look at it this way. You can wake up rested and feeling good, if less wealthy, on Jan. 1. Aside from the $$$ playing New Years ain't always that cool. For us it means lifting heavy equipment and carrying it up and down three flights, playing until 1:30 for drunken revelers and staying up WAY past our bedtimes. So take heart. You can always come and roadie for us! Regards, Chance.

Subject: RE: BS: Damnit Damnit DAMNIT!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 03 Dec 01 - 03:41 PM

"You can wake up rested"

Time enough for rest in the grave!! Heh!

Only playing until 1:30!?!?! Hell... my regular gigs go that late or later... New Year Eve is the chance to do yer last song at 2, and then have the guy organising the party come up and offer your band 5 more bills to play another hour! It's really just another day eh...

Roadie eh?? When? Where? And how much? (note... how much can be address in terms of cash, pints, groupie chicks, mild drugs, or any combintion of those! LOL!!)

Subject: RE: BS: Damnit Damnit DAMNIT!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 08 Dec 01 - 04:17 PM

I guess he wasn't serious!

LOL!!

Onthe up side.. I've picked up a few extra gigs at my local, so that sure helps...

Come to the Kildare House! All Clinton... All The Time!!

LOL!!!

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From: Margo
Date: 09 Dec 01 - 01:35 AM

Any chance I can get an explanation of "Tourette's Chicken"?

Clinton, glad you're "leaving" the thread laughing... Margo

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From: Bert
Date: 09 Dec 01 - 02:23 AM

Margo, It's on Seamus's CD "Let the Music Take you Home".

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From: Banjer
Date: 09 Dec 01 - 04:20 AM

Well, Clinton, it could be worse...You could be like the banjo and accordian players who did a New Years Eve gig and after they had finished were asked if they would return for another show the next New Years Eve...To which they both replied, 'SURE!!!....Can we just leave our instruments here then??

Subject: RE: BS: Damnit Damnit DAMNIT!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 09 Dec 01 - 02:14 PM

LOL!!

Good one banjer... I'd not heard that one befor...

;-)

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From: CarolC
Date: 09 Dec 01 - 03:21 PM

No accordion player in his or her right mind would do something like that. There would be too many opportunities to piss people off that would be missed.

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From: Banjer
Date: 09 Dec 01 - 04:40 PM

No accordion player in his or her right mind

The above statement is a prime example of an oxymoron!!! Would someone in their right mind WANT to play a banjo or accordian?? This from personal experience, I play a banjo and would never try to pass myself off as being in my right mind.

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From: CarolC
Date: 09 Dec 01 - 06:59 PM

I was bracing myself for that one, Banjer. I'm glad I didn't have to wait too long.

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From: WyoWoman
Date: 09 Dec 01 - 07:51 PM

By the way, Gnu, sorry about your friend. Sounds like a great character.

Clinton--this reminds me of the first New Year's Eve after my divorce. I was a reporter and when we went to our story meeting to plan the coming week's coverage, I said I was going to do a ride-along with the "tipsy tow" people who give drunks free rides home and free towing of their vehicles on New Year's Eve.

Without losing a beat, one of the other reporters looked at me and said, "No date, huh?"

I actually did do the story, however, and it was a hoot.

ww

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From: Banjer
Date: 10 Dec 01 - 05:39 AM

Always happy to oblige, CarolC! I've learned that if I claim to not be in my right mind, others don't think strangely of things I do....seems to work!

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From: gnu
Date: 10 Dec 01 - 05:42 AM

Thanks WW. Clarence... Clary I called him, which he hated because he was all Frenchman, and would declare he was going to post a "No Irish Allowed" sign the next time I called him that... had a 24X36' kitchen, full basement, in his back yard. He had two long bench tables at one end of the upstairs and at 5PM on Saturday the ructions would begin. Many a mass were missed. They had to open the doors at his funeral mass so the people who couldn't get in could hear the service.

Clinton... glad to hear things are shaping up. We all knew they would.

Subject: RE: BS: Damnit Damnit DAMNIT!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 10 Dec 01 - 02:42 PM

Ya gnu... not so bd these days... with any luck, December is gonna help make up a bit for the usual slow down in Jan & Feb... but at this point, even then ain't looking too badly...

;-)

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From: GUEST,allie
Date: 10 Dec 01 - 09:12 PM

Aw heck, at least you can work a great gig on St Patricks day if you're an Ozzie or from the States. I plan on getting pissed on New Years myself. Heck with it, I say, the bars are usually closed anyhow. But if you think you missed a real connection gig, I sure as heck understand your frustration.

allie

Subject: RE: BS: Damnit Damnit DAMNIT!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 10 Dec 01 - 09:55 PM

My St. Pats day this year starts on Thursday, and doesn't end till Sunday... 5 gigs so far, and the possibility of one more yet to come...

Bars usully closed on New Years? Not anywhere near where I've ever lived they aren't....