Jam night fun!

[eSmith]

Hi Guy's,

Just thought I'd add a couple of funny stories that happened this weekend at our Saturday practice.

First, the Guitar player turns on his amp and .... Nothing. So he's looking at the back, starts thinking a tube is gone. so off we all go to the local shop for a standard tube. Get two just in case, go back to jam, put in the tube .... Nothing.

So he looks at the fuse, it's fine. About this time his face drops, he's thinking $1500 + for a new amp. (current is a nice Mesa Boogie but after 20 years is out of warranty.) and you can just feel how sad he is. So I ask to have a look at it and start looking at the back of the amp (don't know what I thought I was going to do but wanted to seem at least like I was helping)

And there it is...... The mute switch. Clearly engaged. I asked quietly, he just looked at me with a blank start, reached out and I swear he almost did blow the amp turning it on! We all felt a little bit better after that. I asked him about the weird location ofg the mute switch (it was kind of out of the way) and he tells me that the same thing happened to him before (Now I have the blank stare...) When I asdked why he didn't remember it he again reminded me the amp is 20 years old.

So, then we audition a chick singer.... She seemed to know we would be having trouble getting started because she showed up 4 and a half hours late!!!! (4.5 hours equalls a lot of beer so we took it in stride and welcomed her in) She had a few scraps of paper with some words printed on them in superscript (thats a really, really tiny font..) So I give her our printouts which can be read and off we go..... sort of, she knows all the songs except that she doesn't know the intros, changes or endings.... So if we could just let her know when to come in..... On the plus side, she seemed REALLY friendly, even for a 45 y/o leather faced barfly and has some contacts for discount designer clothing for pet pigeons....... if your interested.....

She stayed for just a few songs and then had to run to.... you guessed it.... Karaoke!

We decided to just skip the singer for now and go with a harp player. No tubes, no mute switches, no mental issues and no pet pigeons.

-eSmith.

[SR505bassman]

[Beginner Bass]

I hear they can make very good pets. Just sayin'...

[eSmith]

Well, I'm not debating the suitability of pigeons as pets but what she was describing sounded a lot like the "Clothing" also allowed her to let it out of the cage to wander around he place. The jist of it seemed as if the "Clothing" was doubling as a strightjacket holding it's wings down so it could not fly away.

That to me is pretty crazy. What ever happened to "If you love something, let it go..."

-eSmith.

[cableguy]

4.5 hours late to the 1st audition....right........but it sounds like if you had a screen with the words and a bouncing ball showing the time it would work. The harp player sounds better & better doesn't it.

[eSmith]

The harp player sounds better & better doesn't it.

You bet it does. The Harp guy is an existing friend of the guitar player who is a decent guy so I expect his friend to be completely normal.

At least she was harmless, a little silly, but harmless.

(Unless your the pigeon)

-eSmith.

[m_bisson]

I only buy Prada for my pigeon.