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Gaolee said:
I almost played a holiday party for a swinger's club. That didn't happen, but I am sure the dress code would have been similar for both genders. Or less. It could have been good. Or really bad.
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funny, stories like these always seem to come from europe…we once played a new year’s eve party in a nudist community (we were dressed) and when setting up in the afternoon I went to their store for a pack of gum to find them shopping with sweaters (chilly) but nothing else on……surreal….
 
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Gaolee said:
I almost played a holiday party for a swinger's club. That didn't happen, but I am sure the dress code would have been similar for both genders. Or less. It could have been good. Or really bad.
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fantasy and reality are pretty different...
 
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Chucky Stiletti said:
funny, stories like these always seem to come from europe…we once played a new year’s eve party in a nudist community (we were dressed) and when setting up in the afternoon I went to their store for a pack of gum to find them shopping with sweaters (chilly) but nothing else on……surreal….
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Fully clothed odd story from the band I played the longest with in the early 80s. We had been through a member changes and finally got things settled and had been working on material and getting songs down and we were wanting any place to play. The drummer showed up to practice excited that he got us booked for our first gig together. He had hinted about it earlier so we were getting pumped about what he might be going and were wanted out practice to be leading to something. So, he shows up and said we got that job. We were all excited now and began asking about date and place, etc. Then we asked who we were going to be playing for. He said it was a dance for the deaf. Silence. The guitar player and I looked at each other thinking we heard misheard something and said "What?" (I have a deaf cousin I was close to him at the time, and a band at a dance was never talked about.) Then we were thinking he was kidding us. He said, "No, it's a real thing." We started saying, "You know they can't hear don't you? It's stupid to have a band. How are they going to dance to something they can't hear?" He then told us they rent a gym with a wood floor and they feel the vibrations. We still weren't sure and kept quizzing him, but it was a real offer for us to play at a dance for the deaf. It ended up falling through for some reason I no longer remember, but that was our funny story about our first potential paying gig. And we could have played as loud as we wanted.....
 
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dagrev said:
Fully clothed odd story from the band I played the longest with in the early 80s. We had been through a member changes and finally got things settled and had been working on material and getting songs down and we were wanting any place to play. The drummer showed up to practice excited that he got us booked for our first gig together. He had hinted about it earlier so we were getting pumped about what he might be going and were wanted out practice to be leading to something. So, he shows up and said we got that job. We were all excited now and began asking about date and place, etc. Then we asked who we were going to be playing for. He said it was a dance for the deaf. Silence. The guitar player and I looked at each other thinking we heard misheard something and said "What?" (I have a deaf cousin I was close to him at the time, and a band at a dance was never talked about.). Then we were thinking he was kidding us. He said, "No, it's a real thing." We started saying, "You know they can't hear don't you? It's stupid to have a band. How are they going to dance to something they can't hear?" He then told us they rent a gym with a wood floor and they feel the vibrations. We still weren't sure and kept quizzing him, but it was a real offer for us to play at a dance for the deaf. It ended up falling through for some reason I no longer remember, but that was our funny story about our first potential paying gig. And we could have played as loud as we wanted.....
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my drummer would have liked that...
 
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dagrev said:
Fully clothed odd story from the band I played the longest with in the early 80s. We had been through a member changes and finally got things settled and had been working on material and getting songs down and we were wanting any place to play. The drummer showed up to practice excited that he got us booked for our first gig together. He had hinted about it earlier so we were getting pumped about what he might be going and were wanted out practice to be leading to something. So, he shows up and said we got that job. We were all excited now and began asking about date and place, etc. Then we asked who we were going to be playing for. He said it was a dance for the deaf. Silence. The guitar player and I looked at each other thinking we heard misheard something and said "What?" (I have a deaf cousin I was close to him at the time, and a band at a dance was never talked about.) Then we were thinking he was kidding us. He said, "No, it's a real thing." We started saying, "You know they can't hear don't you? It's stupid to have a band. How are they going to dance to something they can't hear?" He then told us they rent a gym with a wood floor and they feel the vibrations. We still weren't sure and kept quizzing him, but it was a real offer for us to play at a dance for the deaf. It ended up falling through for some reason I no longer remember, but that was our funny story about our first potential paying gig. And we could have played as loud as we wanted.....
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great story.
 
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dagrev said:
Betting I'm going to be the outlier on this, but I like A. With the body unfinished B looks more "normal," but once you slap some chartreuse on it.

I don't remember that what said about paint on hand, but I do think once finished A will look better. I have been wrong before.
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dagrev said:
I'm guessing the heel might work better.
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I found a can of gold spray paint in the garage, and that made it official.

Testing her out I think the horn balances better.

The neck pocket is tight and I’d have to widen it to fit the tele neck.

The squirrel neck is borderline sloppy in the pocket…. I’m thinking I’m going to sacrifice it to a 3+1 experiment.

it’s not up to the long term quality I’m accustomed to….

I actually may be ready to paint the body tomorrow

 
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