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04-11-2010, 01:57 PM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | gig rant
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Got a gig in SF tonight, & I do not, DO NOT, DO NOT want to go. It's a 50 mile drive into a horrendously unfriendly-to-idiot-drivers city, it's raining & I would much rather veg & get the kids ready for school tomorrow(they were on spring break all last week). To flake would severely jack the rest of the band- they have played w/o bass, but they need my van for various reasons. Plus it would certainly burn a bridge- before crossing it.
I know, quit whining or quit. I just needed to vent.
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04-11-2010, 02:35 PM
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04-11-2010, 07:06 PM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | Quit your whining. |
04-11-2010, 09:11 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | | Sell them the van, then quit.
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04-12-2010, 01:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Salem,OR | | | I would not want to drive to San Francisco either. The temptation to run over those dirty greaseball hippies, those entitled, self-absorbed nose-in-the-air scumbag yuppies would be too much. Then I'd end up in East Palo Alto and get shot. Sweet. |
04-12-2010, 01:57 AM
|  | Evil Alien | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Sacramento, CA | | | SF is a very unfriendly-to-ANY-drivers city. I hate having to drive in there for any reason.
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04-12-2010, 02:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: France | | loan them your van and stay with the kids  |
04-12-2010, 09:32 AM
| | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | whine over for now
Thanks for all the input, guys. The gig actually went incredibly well- traffic was negligible, parking was easier than I've ever known for SF & the crowd LOVED us. Being in a band really isn't my thing anymore but these guys won't let me go.
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04-12-2010, 09:36 AM
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Next time, get some cheese to go with your whine!
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04-12-2010, 09:40 AM
| | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | looks good
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Before the show we grabbed dinner in a nice little hole in the wall called Grubstake- a Greek/Portugese place that has been on Diners & Dives, for good reason. I had a French dip w/onion rings(the rings were pure SEX).
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04-12-2010, 11:35 AM
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Originally Posted by bassteban Thanks for all the input, guys. The gig actually went incredibly well- traffic was negligible, parking was easier than I've ever known for SF & the crowd LOVED us. Being in a band really isn't my thing anymore but these guys won't let me go. | Heh heh! I feel your pain, and relief.
I occasionally have a gig where I'm just dreading it, for a variety of reasons - too tired, too many other things going on at the time, not wanting to make the trip et cetera. The worst bit is usually just getting ready to get the hell out of the house and go. Once you force yourself into doing that, it's never as bad as you think it's going to be. Often those gigs turn out to be a really sweet surpise and just what I actually needed to take my mind off all the other nonsense.
Oh, and well done for sticking with it and not letting the guys down. 90% of professionalism is sometimes just getting to the gig, no matter what.
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