Originally Posted By: SRP

Too bad you didn't wait and get the tux and then leave (just kidding).


Well... there was another early band, more of a country club easy listening band.... we all seem to have been in something like that at one time or another.... The band leader played piano and sang. He literally knew thousands of songs by memory. Very talented guy. What a trippy dude. We were playing country clubs one night and hole in the wall juke joints the next.... figure that out. He bought a limo and had the drummer's wife drive it.... to the gigs. Talk about being on a head trip. His wife and mom..... oh yeah, he didn't go anywhere without his MOM.... his wife drove the gear van. If his mom didn't approve of something, she let everyone know about it and was, in fact, the defacto general manager.

Anyway, we had a gig at the beach in a hole in the wall joint. He says.... "Tuxes boys, we're gonna look sharp for this gig". I knew the place and it wasn't a tuxedo kind of place. Not even close. BTW: we had lite blue tuxes and I believe he had ordered some other color as well. The blue ones came in first. Sky blue.... I showed up in my van and set up my gear. Heck, this place didn't have a stage.... we were in the corner beside the jukebox.

Show time comes and there's like 6 people in the place beside the owner and bar tender. I'm still in jeans and a t-shirt and the rest had changed to their tuxes. He asks me to get changed and I told him ...'Ooooops.... sorry man, I forgot it on the couch at home" ... he acts all mad. Peak crowd was like 25 people in the second set. It was so slow, and his choice of songs had me almost falling asleep so I decided to pull up a barstool to sit on and I almost fell off it from nodding off... or as close as one can get in the middle of a "show".

At the end of the night, he starts in on the "forgotten" tux and the stool and this and that, yada yada........
Me: screw you man, I quit. This band sucks.
Him: return the tux tomorrow and I'll pay you for tonight
Me: heck I'll give it to you now..pay me and I'm outta here
him: I thought you left it at home
Me: nahhh I just didn't want to wear it

So I never got to wear the dang thing.....

Ahhh the joys of some of the early bands I played in.....

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