On My Way To A "Bad" Gig.

yee-haw, buddy!

 

Almost every time I dread something like a gig 'or anything really', it turns out to be an amazing time! How bad can it be? Some extra clams in your pocket a nice dinner and music! Lets hope you have an amazing time. I'm sure yall gonna look pretty fancy in them duds!!

 

Pics or it didn't happen

 

Same here. And when I can't wait to get to the gig it usually turns to crap in a hurry.
That's the music biz.

 

^^LoL, that's so true!

 

I hope you know Rawhide.

 

$185 for a couple hours work playing bass??? Where is the issue? I am not a big fan of country either, but that is an easy money gig. There are worse ways to earn $185. than dressing up cowboy and playing bass.
"You gotta cut hay when the sun shines".

 

Perspective. You could be driving to a job at Jack in the box!

 

Enjoy it.

You seem to be treating this with more seriousness than it deserves.

Also throw a real badass funky fill into one of the songs at the end of the set. Just once, tell them your bass short circuited or something.

 

Just think. While you're in Burbank making $185, there will be guys in Hollywood paying to play.

 

CW attracts pretty ladies. Enjoy the eye candy, and have fun.

 

Nice, you play both kinds of music!

 

Are you playing at Viva Cantina or Joe's American Grill?(both are very amusing places, total cougar paradise) If neither, where ARE you playing?

 

For $185 you can buy a lot of soap to wash the CW crud off your body when you get home

Seriously though - try to enjoy it. Lock in with the drummer, pretend you're backing Johnny Cash or Marty Robbins, and remind yourself (often if necessary) that making $185 for a couple hours' work is pretty good scratch.

 

Will you be wearing your bass above, or below, this belt buckle? Or 'center it' and just put a bit of road wear / relic marks on your bass?



Real basses have scratches and smell of stale beer and cigarette smoke

 

I want to make that quote into a poster and hang it on my wall!

 

Real basses have scratches and smell of stale beer and cigarette smoke [/QUOTE]

try telling that to the folks over at the "relicing" thread

 

Just loan your bass to an alcoholic.
If you ever get it back, it'll be real enough then.

My first good bass was originally owned by an alcoholic, and I have no idea you could get so much crusty crud under the pickguard.

 

..... it's because they have been gigged for years in smoky bars, newbies take note....