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Post by washboardchris on Jun 21, 2019 21:36:54 GMT
Hi, where are you based?
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Post by washboardchris on Jun 9, 2019 16:44:22 GMT
Yes it is for the fiddle edge,it dosent matter to much about the quolity as with my health at the moment I am not going anywhere with it
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Post by washboardchris on Jun 9, 2019 14:22:11 GMT
I need a case for a square neck Dobro.have tried a weissenborn case but its a little to shallow. Any ideas ?
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Post by washboardchris on May 28, 2019 16:03:05 GMT
Nice to be over paid.Once did a new years gig in east London.knocked it on the head at around 12.30 and was faced with the landlord & 5 or 6 large men clutching pool cues & being told that we could either take half the fee or get nothing & lose a few teeth.much better being paid to much. I thought that the same would happen on millenium eve.Was playing at a venue that had booked me on and of for 15 years and the owner asked how much it would cost him for me to play.being I had worked for him so often I told him I would work for half of what he had been quoted as I had worked for him so much in the past.He said right £1000 it is.There were 16 people there that night but he told me that I should regard it as a bonus. :-)
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Post by washboardchris on May 25, 2019 18:44:51 GMT
I was hoping for some good stories but maybe its just me these things happen to. I got a call to dep for the guitarist in a Rock and Roll Band.Had no idea what sort of venue it was. It turned out to be a nudist camp.seeing naked middle aged couples trying to jive was bad enough but when it came to the twist it was a bit much !!!
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Post by washboardchris on May 22, 2019 17:46:13 GMT
Here's another one.I once played a variety show which featured a duo called the mini tones which featured Kenny Baker who played R2 D2 in star wars & a band called Nuts & Bolts witch was a spin off from Sid Millward and his Nitwits who ended there act with Cyril Lagey (who was the wrestler Johnny Kwango's brother blowing down the rear end of a huge stuffed Vulture that was mounted on an old pram and made the sound of a nightingale.we called it entertainment back in the day.
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Post by washboardchris on May 21, 2019 15:51:57 GMT
Blood Shot eyes was in fact written by Hank Penny
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Post by washboardchris on May 18, 2019 12:12:08 GMT
It comes to this I have made a living out of music for over 40years ,never been famous and never wanted to be . I worked on the principle of doing something that no one seemed to do ie some country blues some jazz things like Fats Wallers your feets to big or Harry the hipster Gibson's Who put the Benzedrine in Mrs Murphys Ovaltine plus a of off the wall intros & being quick enough to find answers to hecklers without being to insulting( having at onetime worked as a stand up comedian( not that i disrespected the music in any way)all this helped and at my peak I was working more than 300 gigs a year.I all ways had a feeling of triumph playing a venue were no one was into blues but being able to have them hanging on your every word. I was told by a fellow performer who played a venue I had played two weeks before of a request he had had made by an 80 year old country boy.Do you do anything by Vera Lynn of if not something by that Robert Johnson. I didnt play in london as half the time they wanted you to pay to play.
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Post by washboardchris on May 18, 2019 10:37:25 GMT
I hate to say this but unless its a charity I want to be paid for the skill,I have had venus phone me and say theydont pay money but you can pass the hat round & then I have pointed out that if they get someone to build them a wall they dont expect the bricklayer to stand by his wall with a bucket hoping that passers by will throw money into it if they think he has done a good job.
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Post by washboardchris on May 18, 2019 9:00:50 GMT
I once had a call from an agent to play a club in Hackney and being that he was paying very very well(this is years ago before I went full time) more than a weeks work on a building site, so off I went.When I got there I was greeted by a doorman who showed me to the dressing room where I was faced by a young blond girl with no clothes on who asked me to help her dress (acts as if this happened all the time)at this point I found out I had been booked for a Stag night.I got on stage and started signing and heard a ting ting noise,they were throwing bottle tops some with teeth marks on them at me .when I left the stage and the stripper got on(all black leather high heels and a whip)when I left the stage the stripper came on but sadly they didn't sweep the stage before she went on >she started dancing ,her heel slipped on a bottle top feel over onto to the bottle tops and on the way down wiped out her tape machine leaving her to finish her act in silence peeling off her G string with one hand and bottle tops from her back with the other.It was a little like the wilde west in those day's
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Post by washboardchris on May 17, 2019 20:22:54 GMT
It struck me that I have done some strange gigs and played with some odd people eg I once played a gig with Bert Weeden's brother (Moe?)who was a very small men who at the time was playing a full sized Double Bass. He was so small,or the Bass was so big that he stood on a chair and when he wanted to play up the neck he would jump of the char shouting Geronemo. Any one else ?
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Post by washboardchris on May 17, 2019 15:05:38 GMT
I once turned up for a evening gig way in the middle of nowhere well befor all day & all night drinking (it had been passed on to me by another musician.Got there at 7.30 to set up only to be greeted by the landlord with "what are you doing we start at 11.30 & go on till 2.30.if its a small town or village you never know if there is anything else going on.IO have had a pub empty half way through because in one instance a wake for one of the older customers & once because there was a stripper on at the football club!
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Post by washboardchris on May 1, 2019 18:24:14 GMT
Hi,Colin Brooks left me this guitar some years ago,the neck had been carved like a totem pole and had Hank special inlaid up the neck.Colin knew he was at the end of his life and gave it to me before he went. it had had the neck of for years and I managed to get the neck made in time for him to play it before he went.I had a cardiac arrest 3 years ago and as I had offered to leave the guitar to Lee (he was a friend of Colin's and somewhat younger than me ) & as I was no longer giging I decided to give it to Lee so it would get some use.
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Post by washboardchris on Apr 30, 2019 22:06:23 GMT
Hi Michael,WHOOPS, I ment to say it was a type of yoke for a for a draught animal (dont think you could hit someone with a water buffalo )
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Post by washboardchris on Apr 30, 2019 7:27:49 GMT
There was a line from Henry Thomas (Ragtime Texas )"I whipped my woman with a single tree.I had thought it was a branch but no its a draught animal.Sounds painful either way
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