howldog wrote:

> it's a great song to sing in a bar where people are getting
> shit-faced, thats for sure. I dont know about you, but the blues
bands
> i played in, work was generally not in the better clubs. Lots of down
> and out dives and watering holes. I've played in clubs and got paid
> with a bar b q sammitch LOL

I'm happy just be allowed up on stage at this point. Most times we're
playing for free, because we've only been together a year or so, but
those occasions when we get paid in beer are very much appreciated.
Bar-b-q would be fine, too, as long as we don't have to wash it down
with Coors Light.

> >> but you cant convince them, or order them, or get a court order to
> >> force them, or, stage a femme protest to force them. Not exactly a
> >> very feminist stance  ;-)
> >
> >No, damn it anyway. I suppose I could stamp my feet and cry and
carry
> >on, but they'd just laugh at me and tell me not to go trying that
"girl
> >shit" or something like that. :-) Man, I love those guys.
>
> Ha! Once, in a cover band i was in with a girl singer who just had
the
> whole diva-in-her-own-mind thing working so hard for her, eventually
i
> just told her, look, yer part of this band, you're GOING to start at
> least putting some of this equipment in your car and driving it to
the
> club. And she protested, "but, I'm A GIRL".
>
> fired.

I'm sorry to say I know many women who'd claim that kind of feminine
privilege. But they'd shout if they didn't have an equal say in band
business.

Hey, I'm emailing you some files, they're just sung into my cell phone,
so you can imagine the sound quality. Once you finish rolling on the
floor, if you're so kind as to listen, please give me your unvarnished
opinion. I've only been singing this kind of music, in public, for a
little less than a year now, and it's a hell of a lot different (no pun
intended) from the stuff I used to sing at church, so I have a LOT to
learn. I'd appreciate your opinion, good or bad, especially the bad. If
I want adoration, I'll ask my girls, they think I can do no wrong, but
they're still young.  ;-)



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