Cramming In the Tour Cliches
How do you make a quick couple of days out feel like an actual tour? By packing the days chock-full of rock tour cliches like:
* The club last night refusing to pay any of the acts on the bill.
This is a time honored classic that never gets old. I somehow can't seem to resist the urge to mention that the people who own and operate the club are born-again Christians. I guess we should've been on guard when we walked in and saw them all wearing t-shirts that said "WWJS?". We didn't figure out until it was too late that this stood for "Who would Jesus stiff?".
After THAT classic tour experience we of course went out drinking, which led to rock tour cliche number two:
* As our troop is comprised of a group of middle-aged indie rock musicians and not, for example, youthful heavy metallers, the drinking we do tends to be on the tamer, more civilized side - some people even drank wine. Still, this didn't prevent one of the band members from "decorating the inside of the car" on the drive home.
Strictly speaking, getting violently ill on the first night of a tour is considered bad form, but since this technically is not a tour, we all decided to allow it and pulled over to the side of the road.
We're just pulling into Cambridge now. We'll see what other things we can check off the list in the next 18 hours.
Tonight's show is at a regular club run by the usual godless communist pagans, so we should at least get paid.
posted by Jim Boggia @ 6:40 PM
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7 Comments:
Jim, this might make you feel better: I just heard your song Three Weeks Short. If that doesn't get you international or at least national recognition, I'll be shocked......or at least once again gravely saddened at the insensitivity of our society. I lived just north of Philly for sixteen years up until two years ago, and enjoyed seeing and hearing you MANY times.
jesus never seems to pay ascap, bmi or sesac either - pray none of those christian bands honor your writing by covering one of your songs and making it a hit in their world.
Susan - Thanks so much for the comment about 'Three Weeks Shy'. I hope people hear it but it is hard to get any of the media to focus on anything having to do with the war.
Anon - I actually DID write a tune for Jaci Velasquez about 10 years ago called 'Glory'. It was a hit and they did pay, but I still haven't been able to get anyone to get me my copy of the Gold Record award it earned. Ah well.
That's more than unfair Jim.
You know that there was a contract with the booking agent and if that wasn't conveyed to the performers, well we obviously have to take the religious slurs with a smile.
Last time I checked you were a musician, not a fireman. Watch out when you burn bridges Jim.
Rich at The Space 203-288-6400
Well I know who to not go see next time they roll through town.
Well, what's the denouement of this little contretemps?
Oh dear. That was two odd words in one sentence, huh?
Anyway. Is the agent the one who did the stiffing? Did Rich@TheSpace pay the agent? Was any of this discussed? Will there be fisticuffs at the end of this brouhaha?
Oh. Did it again. Sorry.
Well, who's fighting, and what for?
(Nice time w/Vin, btw.)
Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and render unto the bands that which is the band's.
It's okay to burn a bridge if it's a bridge to nowhere.
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