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Am I the only one keeping this thread alive? Gigging players, where are you?
Just came back from the second of two very different gigs in a row, with my country rock/rockabilly band...
Yesterday we played at a club popular with local university students; the place was packed; really hot, really bad air, my clothes still smell like an ashtray. Great rocking gig, everybody was dancing, lots of pretty girls (one asked our singer during our break whether I'm still single - fortunately (unfortunately?) my girlfriend was also there...) Had lots of fun, but it was a very exhausting gig.
An old friend I hadn't seen in a long time was there, she's got a BA in fine arts and took some great gig pics for our homepage; also, usually she listens to hardcore punk rock, and said she was only there to meet me, and would only stay for a couple of songs, because that wasn't her kind of music - well, she stayed for the full two sets & encore in the end...
Today we played at a place on the outskirts of town (I guess in the US you'd call it a roadhouse) - lots of people again, but the average age was 50+ So we played much more relaxed, a bit slower, a bit less loud, I think we never played that good (in a technical sense) before. There were some members of a line dancing club there, and they asked for "Achy Breaky Heart" - well, none of us knows or likes that song, so that had to be satisfied with a medley of Jambalaya and Ring Of Fire. Made quite a bit of money too, and the owner of the place said that he wants us to play there once a month...
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