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[johnny9fingers]

Gigging tonight, and I really don't fancy it.
Ah well.

It's the 'Function Band' and we're playing three hour long sets (15 minute breaks) for an end-of-term ball for the parents of children in a private school in Kent. There may be cramping of hands ahead. The bastards have kept 'Beat it' in the set....I do hope this one has extra money. Last year this gig provided some of the most leery behaviour from chaps in penguin suits and expensively underdressed women with a newly acquired sense of privilige. Definitely the best looking underwear I've seen flashed at me for some time....but I'm too middle aged to notice really, excepting in passing. (Keep trying to convince yourself of this, my dear.)
Given the weather has turned into what we can only call 'The English Monsoon' I get the feeling that all naughtiness (which traditionally at these sort of occasions takes place outdoors) will be suspended due to rain. This means that they'll concentrate on the entertainment, which is us.....So despite slight lack of preparation (mea culpa) we had better be up to scratch.
I could do with an expensively underdressed woman of elegance and wit, myself, dammit. But, as I have found to my cost from time to time: I really can't afford them, and few of them can afford me.

I'll live.

Comments

Break a leg (not a finger)

[ankh156.livejournal.com]

I doubt even Eddie can play that solo these days...

Re: Break a leg (not a finger)

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Apparently Eddie only did it the once. (Though I've heard another story that claims it was comp'ed from six different tracks.)

Excepting Jennifer Batten managed it night after night after night on tour.

But it's a matter of putting the time into it, which, as I've got the remnants of a life, and get bored easily, can be rather difficult, my dear.
Hope things are well....9 metre yacht...should fit the Leslie in that. My bank informed me this morning that your exchange had gone through. Damn efficient these banking chappies, what? (or not).

Hope you're well. Look forward to seeing you in August.

Re: Break a leg (not a finger)

[ankh156.livejournal.com]

I'm inclined to believe the story about the solo being a piece of virtuoso editing. Eddie is good, but bits of that solo defy credibility and some basic (and immutable) laws of physics. On the other hand, the claim that the redoubtable Jennifer achieves it routinely surprises me less. I've seen her in a group with Jeff Beck. Much as I like him, seeing only part of what she is capable of doing I was forced to ask myself what she was doing 'slumming it' with a venerable old geezer from Raines Park.

We should only be 3 aboard said vessel, so there'll be room in the forecastle for the Leslie. I'm dying to get my organ going through it (as the bishop said to the actress).

[tripinthehead33.livejournal.com]

Good luck. Avoid the women! Expensive women depreciate faster than cars my good man.