Top 10 Reasons you may be getting too old to gig.

Especially the nap part! I can barely make it past 8pm anymore.
The Professor

10 - During the second set, you scream for the drummer to please stop hitting those annoying cymbals.
9 - All you want from groupies is a foot massage.
8 - Prepping for the gig involves plucking hair from your chin or nose.
7 - You need your glasses to see your amp settings.
6 - You no longer use a tip jar.
5 - You ask the club owner if you can start at 8:30 p.m. instead of 9:30 p.m.
4 - You need a nap before the gig.
3 - During the breaks, you now go to your van to lie down.
2 - You don't recover until Tuesday afternoon.
1 - The waitress is your daughter.

....all you want from groupies is a foot massage...hah! sooo true...of course i haven't gigged in 20 years or so...(backyard parties)...

. . .#2 isn't quite right for me either. It takes me until THURSDAY afternoon to recover.
The Professor

I mean, have you ever known that the work in the first place?

Back in the summers between my first and second year, and then my second and third year in undergrad, i played at a piano bar in Lisle. (I don't know if it's still there, since that was >30 years ago). I made more in tips that i made in salary.

I went there for $3/hour and made closer to $5/hour in tips. So, 4 nights a week, 5 hours a night, i was making $8/hour.

Good thing i had that snifter out there.
The Professor

jar, and this was a 3-piece group.

:woohoo:

mid-set

Actually, i've just left the stage to go to the bathroom. The heck with showbiz. When you gotta go, you gotta go.
The Professor

because the goddamn thing's too heavy.

Here is another one.

You dial 91 on your phone before the gig so all you have to hit is another 1 to bring the medics.


I clicked on the link. I am lost......again

the band so I told the guys if anyone is having a heart attack then just make sure you fall on the keyboard player. I figure we have us covered.

You don't get panties or bras thrown on stage, you get "support garments".

to see if any of your "fans" died.

When I was 18, I used to play three nights a week, three-hour shows of cover tunes/originals. It used to wipe me out and tore pieces of flesh from the top of my index finger and my wrist. I'd be at practice the next day, wanting to learn the latest speed-fest despite the pain.

Now I just want to do one or two sets, get a drink of water, and leave. And enough with the speed, already....medium is the new "fast".

And my Rick gives me a hell of a crick in the neck if I overdo it. And I'm only 35.

Gone are the days of banging my head full-steam and gritting my teeth through blistering pieces. If I did that now, I'd pass out.



Ten years ago. Those were the days...

Let me tell you...I get whooped. My back hurts, my feet get cramped up, my voice is shot and I get ready to do it all over again.
Ah... You have to love it.

and I never intend on stopping

IMHO

Watched Spinal Tap earlier this evening. I should have stuck to baseball. LOL

your grand kids $300.00 to load you in and out when the gig only pays $200.

The whole losing money and grandkids thing cinched it!
The Professor

thought you might like that one.:hi: