Re: [Harp-L] Gig Horror Story -

[Maurice Nazzaro <mauricenazz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I hope you at least made some decent money

Maurice Nazzaro

On Mar 25, 2012, at 5:17 PM, "Joe Piro" <joe_piro@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Beat this Bruhs  - 
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> .         9pm Friday night show time: Elderly woman approaches bandstand to
> say hello. Trips over floor monitor and hits the deck. Haven't even turned
> on our amps yet.
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> .         9:30pm: intoxicated dude #1 shown the door
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> .         10:30pm: overzealous/intoxicated dude #2 falls into the PA stand
> while dancing to "American Band" - big GFR fan evidently  - Guinness draft
> hits the floor.
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> .         10:30:05pm: PA crashes into Guinness draft
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> .         10:30:06pm: PA stand falls into guitarist's spare MusicMan 'strat
> - the pricey one
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> .         10:30:08pm: 'strat falls into guitarist's Mesa - the pricey one
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> .         10:30:15pm: I help intoxicated dude #2 up - receive friendly
> electrical reminder that beer is a fairly good conductor - true
> 
> .         11:15pm: intoxicated dude #3 gets "accidentally slammed" from
> behind - turns out, he's a pal of mine. Said pal is rag-dolled into the
> guitarist and me. Bud Lite this time. Never knew that the volume of beer
> expands when airborne. Also true
> 
> .         11:15:01pm: Dude #3's beer saturates guitarist's entire pedal
> board - too many pedals to count - the pricey ones.  My delay pedal also a
> bit gooey. At least the beer is not dark. Thankfully 9V stomp night for me.
> Guitarist is plugged in though. Sidebar: I'm midway through singing "Boom,
> Boom" - not kidding. Boom, Boom.
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> I win.
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> Can corroborate all. 
> 
> Now taking up Parcheesi.
> 
> If I'm lyin' I'm dyin'.
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> Joe P.
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