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Topic: Female bar groupies hitting on musicians; |
Les Anderson
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The Great White North
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Posted 15 Mar 2005 11:39 am |
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I would guess there is not a musician in this forum board who has not run into one or more of these while playing a stage gig somewhere. We were playing at a pub (I won’t name the place to save some name dropping) this past Friday night where we had a very jealous boyfriend go berserk on our lead guitarist and wanted to rip him from limb from limb. The problem was however, that it was this guy’s honey who got a little more than inebriated and started giving our guitarist the winks and smiles then into her hanging on him during the breaks. Apparently, this was not her first encounter with stage musicians and her jealous boyfriend.
I have been around for more than 35 years playing in bars, music dance halls and what not and have seen this same scenario played out time and time again where a jealous boyfriend goes ballistic on a musician. How many of you guys have stories to tell about a female's romantic eye and musicians taking the heat for something he did not want to be part of?
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[This message was edited by Les Anderson on 15 March 2005 at 02:18 PM.] |
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Ray Minich
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Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 15 Mar 2005 12:06 pm
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| Can you say "Occupational Hazard"? |
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Alvin Blaine
From:
Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Posted 15 Mar 2005 12:47 pm
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| That's how I met my first and second Ex-wives. It was even in the same bar a few years apart. |
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John De Maille
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On a Mountain in Upstate Halcottsville, N.Y.
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Posted 15 Mar 2005 1:24 pm
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| Quite a few years ago, a guitar player I worked with, got into a real life "Fatal Attraction" scenario. It went on for a while, and I must say that, part of it was his fault, but, the outcome was disasterous for all parties. I got right on track after that, and started thinking and listening to my "other head". |
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Larry Robbins
From:
Fort Edward, New York
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Posted 15 Mar 2005 5:46 pm
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Yep, why if I had a dime for everytime a barroom Rosie tried to make me stray .....I'd have 10cents!ha ,ha
But as we ALL know temptation is everywhere.......its up to us each to welcome or rebuke it! I like to watch em dance and" shake that thing" but I go home to her everytime knowing that maybe I "could have" but why buy the milk when you got a cow at home? !!(joke) You have to remember that what you have at home is a whole lot more reliable than MOST honkey tonk angles that you'll meet....but this one time in.... 
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Jody Sanders
From:
Magnolia,Texas, R.I.P.
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Posted 15 Mar 2005 9:06 pm
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| That is why we in Texas call our steel rig a Divorce Kit. See you down the road, Jody. |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 16 Mar 2005 2:19 am
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At our last gig a trio of young gals came up and were bumpin' and grindin' with the 3 up front youngin's...
Although no fights broke out we were expecting to see "SKIN" any minute....
I'm certain I don't need another X wife so I avoid this stuff and run for cover..
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Drew Howard
From:
48854
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Dave Van Allen
From:
Doylestown, PA , US , Earth
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Posted 16 Mar 2005 10:53 am
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Wrote a little song about it... I'd like to play it for ya... here it is:
quote:
Verse:
There's a woman out there on the dance floor
who possesses more cleavage than shirt
And it's hard to believe it's coincidence
That she also has more thigh than skirt
She's been staring at me while I'm playing
And she knows I've been watching her dance
And I'll lay you a bet
At the end of the set
I could easily talk my way
Into her pants....
Chorus:
But I gotta stop Sleepin' Around
No more late night delights for this clown
I long for the days
When a guy could get laid
And not be afraid
Of a virus called AIDS
Oh I Gotta Stop Sleepin' Around
(c) 2005 Dave Van Allen/MMM-BMI
not that I ever did so in the first place....[This message was edited by Dave Van Allen on 16 March 2005 at 10:54 AM.] |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 16 Mar 2005 11:06 am
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The ones that piss me off are the ones sitting in the audience with a mini skirt and keep crossing their legs and they have a former NFL linebacker as their boy friend sitting next to them.
But I've never looked.. 
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Dean Vallery
From:
San Antonio, Texas, USA
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Posted 16 Mar 2005 11:31 am
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Hey Jody, you are right on that one. Denny Mathis, my first steel teacher way back in the late '80s dubed it the "Ultimate divorce kit". I had no idea at the time that I would have four marriages in my futher?
Deano
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 16 Mar 2005 1:43 pm
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Hey DVA, neat lyrics!. What's the melody?  [This message was edited by Ray Minich on 16 March 2005 at 01:44 PM.] |
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Dave Van Allen
From:
Doylestown, PA , US , Earth
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Posted 16 Mar 2005 6:45 pm
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Thanks...
the Melody? it's a waltz, kinda like Tom T. Hall's "I Like Beer", but different...
I wrote it back in the day, and never recorded it yet... may never.[This message was edited by Dave Van Allen on 16 March 2005 at 06:46 PM.] |
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Pat Jenkins
From:
Abingdon, VA, USA
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Posted 16 Mar 2005 8:21 pm
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Well, while I still play music for a couple of country bands in our area, my full time gig is now with a beach band. It keeps me hopping, I love the musical comparisons between the different styles. Anyway, last Friday night...a couple of girls were dancing together, and of course, they managed to get incredibly close to band stand and...wait a minute, is this a family forum??? I will stop here.
Pat
Waltzing Through A Rock And Roll Life!! |
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Michael Johnstone
From:
Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 17 Mar 2005 3:31 am
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| What I hate is when a sweetie pie who's been sitting alone pounding tequila shots comes up to the stage and bends down to eyeball how you're working your knee levers and has cleavage you could plant corn in - and then when it's breaktime,she's nowhere to be found. -MJ- |
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Howard Tate
From:
Leesville, Louisiana, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 17 Mar 2005 7:24 am
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I retired when the girls started coming up and hitting on me to go out with their mothers and grandmothers.
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Mark Ardito
From:
Chicago, IL, USA
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Posted 17 Mar 2005 7:27 am
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About 5 years ago I bought a Mesa Boogie Blue Angel 4x10 open back amp from a fellow local guitar player in Chicago. He had gone through a divorce and a new marriage and then several girlfriends.
After I bought the amp I got it home and noticed in the "open back" part of the amp there was a velcro pouch he mounted to the side wall. I opened it up and found a bunch of Trojan rubbers still in the package. I guess that is where he stored his "supplies" while on the gig.
Cheers!
Mark
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Chris Brooks
From:
Providence, Rhode Island
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Posted 17 Mar 2005 7:31 am
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I was gigging in Montana in the early 80s. After the gig, the drummer--about 5'8"--was happily playing the pinball machine. Out of the blue, a big guy comes up and cold-cocks him, then goes after me!
Turns out his girl/wife/whatever had been telling him that she was attracted to the drummer.
Of course the drummer never knew that.
Dontcha love working for the public?
Chris |
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David Wright
From:
Pilot Point ,Tx USA.
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Posted 17 Mar 2005 8:18 am
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Thats why I love Steel Guitar....
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Gene Jones
From:
Oklahoma City, OK USA, (deceased)
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Posted 17 Mar 2005 10:21 am
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Lefty
From:
Grayson, Ga.
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Posted 17 Mar 2005 3:31 pm
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I'm sure everybody has a story for this one.
Here is one of mine (before I married my lovely wife).
I use to back up a singer in a small bar, but it was a good, comfortable gig, good place, and he was good friend. I became good friends with a girl who came in, and she would come in and hang with me, and invite me out upon ocassion. I had a regular girl friend at the time who worked nights, you know the story.
She also gained the interest of a fellow guitar player I knew, but did not play with..... To make a long story short, he sold his original 1958 Gold top Les Paul to buy an engagement ring, to be turned down. She invited me to move to Vermont to work at a Ski Lodge, and I turned her down. Neither of us ended up with her.
The other guitar player now owns a nice vintage guitar store in town. I go in from time to time, and he never mentions this episode, but I know he still has sensitive feelings over it.
Guitar or Woman...ain't that the dad gum eternal question?
Lefty |
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Smiley Roberts
From:
Hendersonville,Tn. 37075
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Posted 18 Mar 2005 12:50 pm
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RE: thread title:
I wouldn't know. I haven't had that "problem" for years!! 
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Ken Thompson
From:
Great Falls, Montana, USA
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Posted 18 Mar 2005 1:34 pm
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For Chris, whereabouts in Montana were you playing in the 80s? I was a police officer then and I think I need to talk to you!
Just kidding, and curious. |
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Chris Brooks
From:
Providence, Rhode Island
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Posted 18 Mar 2005 2:07 pm
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Ken, I was in a 4-piece group called Montana Skyline, 1979-82. We were pretty successful. Worked out of Missoula. I am sure we played Great Falls . . . where the heck was it?
Hey, was there a Holiday Inn or something that had a riverboat motif and was called The Josephine or The Maybelline? Coulda been there.
Missoula, Victor, Lolo, Butte, Whitefish, Glendive (!), Bozeman, "Salmon River Days" twice (Idaho), "The Modern West" in Lewiston (Idaho), Helena once, Seeley Lake, Calgary, Lethbridge, Rapid City, Jackpot(Nevada), Gillette, Rock Springs (!), Denver and Craig, Colorado . . . we saw lots of big sky--for sure.
Had a good friend in Great Falls: Gus Hossack, psychologist. He worked with lots of juvenile delinquents--maybe you ran into some of THEM in your line of work.
If miles could talk, I could write a book . . .
Chris
[This message was edited by Chris Brooks on 18 March 2005 at 02:07 PM.] |
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Les Anderson
From:
The Great White North
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