...but I think it'll work here, too:
...while I doubt they'll ever come back in style, but one never knows for sure... platform shoes! Yup!... back in the '70s, I borrowed a pair from a friend to wear onstage during a gig. Get ready for this one, too... I even wore a white belt! Live rock 'n roll was taking a beating from disco back then, so some of us felt we had to 'sell out', and "...do a little dance, make a little love... get down tonight..." We covered a lot of the disco tunes back then... forgive me, Lord!
Anyways... I'm cuttin' and groovin' with my Ric 4001 and my red-sparkle Kustom bass rig. I was 'dancing while playing', when those dammed platforms slipped. I twisted the bejeezus out of my left ankle, fell down on the stage, dropped a few chops, but managed to finish the song (...it was, indeed, KC's "Get Down Tonight" we were playing at the time) and this was the 3rd song of the first set... we had that set to finish, and three more sets to play! My ankle swelled-up the size of a softball... I swear! I was in excruciating pain.
It certainly was a good thing, because our agent was at the gig, which was a bit unusual for her, but she saw me do my pirouet thing. She happened to have had dental work done that very day, and her dentist's office was close by. Wouldn't you know it... she had some painkillers in her purse- Tylenol with Codiene! She gave me four of them little suckers... #4's... I swallowed two of 'em down with a beer, and I finished the gig... albeit sitting on a chair... with my head in the clouds, but I did the show!
We had this gig to do all over again the following night... Saturday... so I saved the other two #4's in case I might need them. I didn't, which was fortunate, 'cuz I had forgotten to take them out of my pants pocket when I got home. My live-in girlfriend at the time was doing the laundry that Saturday morning, and... you guessed it... the washing machine copped a buzz that morning...
The main thing I learned from that experience: only Bootzilla can play and wear platforms... not some white kid from Fort Worth...
