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Old 08-15-2011, 06:24 PM
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This weekend my band played for a retirement home summer picnic. We played Beatles and some old classic songs. Well we got upstaged by a puppet show that followed! (No offense to James and His Magic Marionettes.)

People were kind but nobody was throwing their support hose at us. The cooks and staff liked us.

The puppet show was pretty cheezy, but the kids and old folks loved it. Oh well.
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Old 08-15-2011, 08:17 PM
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You should have hit 'em with "Jazz Odyssey". No puppet show would stand up to that. :-)

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Old 08-15-2011, 08:22 PM
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Those darn puppet shows! I can't tell you how many bands have fallen prey to those maniacal marionettes! (I really can't cause I don't have a clue)
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Old 08-15-2011, 10:40 PM
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It was probably because you had your amps at 11!
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Old 08-15-2011, 10:55 PM
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Old 08-15-2011, 11:47 PM
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it's because you got stuck in that pod again, wasn't it?
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Old 08-16-2011, 04:51 AM
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if only they weren't....Magic Marionettes
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Old 08-16-2011, 07:34 AM
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You should have ended with Master of Puppets and then enslaved the lot of them and used them up slowly for bass repairs and toothpicks.

Puppets, give em an inch and they grow a foot long nose...
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Old 08-16-2011, 09:06 AM
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Maybe the armadillos in your trousers scared everyone off?
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Old 08-16-2011, 09:13 AM
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Triumph the Insult Comic Dog verses eminem again. Damn puppets are always starting s***
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Old 08-16-2011, 09:27 AM
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Ouch...sorry.
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Old 08-16-2011, 10:46 AM
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Maybe you guys should team up with the puppeteer and have marionettes made of the band...and a 15" stonehenge with dwarves to dwarf it.
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Old 08-16-2011, 07:25 PM
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It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.
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Old 08-17-2011, 01:00 PM
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It was probably because you had your amps at 11!
No, they probably still didn't hear it. More importantly, next time make sure their hearing aids are turned up to 11.
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Old 08-18-2011, 06:45 AM
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prolly woulda done better if one of those kids hadn't crushed your stonehedge prop
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At least they didn't throw their used diapers at you.
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Next time take the cucumber OUT of the tinfoil...
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