My Motown band did a 6 night thing on a cruise. NEVER AGAIN!!!

First of all, because we were technically employees that week, we had rooms by the engine. This was back before impellers. This was HUGE piston engines. Imagine finding a guy using a jackhammer to break up concrete. Then have 24 of his best friends join him with THEIR jackhammers, set up a cot in the middle of that circle, and try to sleep.

Then there was the schedule. We did a 60 minute set every hour on the hour at 8,10,12,2, and 4. Yes, we had to play a set at 4am. People have this idea that a cruise ship gig is heaven. All I did for 6 days was eat and work 5 times a day, and sleep during the day out by the pool where there was no engine noise.

And the whole time I was thinking "WHY do people like this? It's a whole week of 'Oooooohhh. Look. Water!' This is boring."

Here in Cleveland there is a famous boat called the Nautica Queen. They do Lake Erie 4 hour cruises on weekends. 3.0 wanted to take that cruise for New Year's Eve. And I said "What if it sucks? At least if we go to a party in a hall somewhere and it sucks we can leave. We can't leave from a party many miles offshore."

That cruise gig may have been the most horrible week of my life, and I was in a war zone!

And even worse. I married 3 times.