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Topic: I got a $140 tip on my gig last night, for one song. |
Mike Perlowin
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Los Angeles CA
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Posted 29 Dec 2014 9:48 am |
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The song was "Unchained Melody." I guess the guy liked the way I played it. 
It was the end of the evening, and I was getting ready to pack up when I got a request to play the song. After that, I played for another hour.
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Joachim Kettner
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Posted 29 Dec 2014 10:05 am
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Regarding the time, energy and patience you invested, I would say it's only fair, but very unusual. How nice from the man to do this.
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 29 Dec 2014 10:09 am Re: I got a $140 tip on my gig last night, for one song.
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| Mike Perlowin wrote: |
| I guess the guy liked the way I played it. After that, I played for another hour. |
Dude! I guess so. Scale must be going up for 'righteous' moments. |
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 29 Dec 2014 10:33 am
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| Did you think of playing it twice? |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 29 Dec 2014 10:49 am
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Mike, what you're saying is, you finally broke even for a change  |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Don R Brown
From:
Rochester, New York, USA
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Posted 29 Dec 2014 11:37 am Re: I got a $140 tip on my gig last night, for one song.
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| Charlie McDonald wrote: |
| Dude! I guess so. Scale must be going up for 'righteous' moments. |
I see what you did there!  |
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Dick Wood
From:
Springtown Texas, USA
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Posted 29 Dec 2014 1:22 pm
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Was dining and dancing involved?
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Jack Aldrich
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Washington, USA
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Posted 29 Dec 2014 1:26 pm
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All right, Mike!!!
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 29 Dec 2014 2:26 pm
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| Dick Wood wrote: |
| Was dining and dancing involved? |
This is a restaurant gig. The place does not have a dance floor. At the time I got the tip, the kitchen had closed for the evening, but the bar was of course still open.
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Dyke Corson
From:
Fairmount, IL USA
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Posted 29 Dec 2014 4:53 pm
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| I was working a duo at a local restaurant patio last summer, we had a gal with a $100 bill asking for "Muskrat Love" - we immediately channeled our inner Captain and Tennille |
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Bill Terry
From:
Bastrop, TX
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Posted 30 Dec 2014 7:00 am
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I played at the Saxon Pub in Austin about a year or so ago with singer/songwriter Houston Marchman. This is one of the places in Austin that most musicians like to play because it's generally a listening audience.
Some guy came up and tipped us 600.00 about half way through the set.. 100.00 for each band member. I was told he's a local guy, wasn't drunk or high, and has been known to do that before. Just a music fan I guess.
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Joe Casey
From:
Weeki Wachee .Springs FL (population.9)
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Posted 30 Dec 2014 12:22 pm
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| Dougie By any chance was that Herby ? He use to send up 50s like they were Monopoly money. |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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chuck lemasters
From:
Jacksonburg, WV
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Posted 30 Dec 2014 4:23 pm
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| Our band once got a $300 tip for playing Freebird. I would hate to play it for anything less than $295. |
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Jim Smith
From:
Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 30 Dec 2014 10:19 pm
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| Back when I was playing six nights a week in the Fort Worth Stockyards with Bobby Wayne, a guy offered $100 for a Marty Robbins song. I don't think he knew Bobby very well. We did about six in a row before he stopped sending up the bills. |
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 30 Dec 2014 11:39 pm
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| chuck lemasters wrote: |
| Our band once got a $300 tip for playing Freebird. I would hate to play it for anything less than $295. |
Looks like anybody can be bought!
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Steve Spitz
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New Orleans, LA, USA
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Posted 31 Dec 2014 8:22 am Biggest tip ?
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We once got $600 to stop playing. A lot of money in the mid eightys. In a private suite in the Superdome during the Sugarbowl. A cinder block room, very small, and someone thought they needed live music during halftime. Three piece, a trumpet, Suzaphone, and tenor Banjo.
It was extremely loud, and these corporate suits were trying to talk big business to their guests. A suit walks up to us and asks "how much are you getting paid? " we replied " $600." He gave us that much to go away. We still got paid by the agency as well. It was a good night.
About the best money I've ever made was to stop playing..... |
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Dan Robinson
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 31 Dec 2014 9:14 am
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| Mike, that's great! Is that the restaurant in Calabassas? |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 31 Dec 2014 12:11 pm
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| Mike, that's great! Is that the restaurant in Calabassas? |
Dan, you're probably thinking of the Sagebrush Cantina. I played there in the 70s when it did not yet have a liquor license.
This was at a place called the Oyster House, in Studio City.
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Rich Gardner
From:
Columbus, Ohio, USA
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Posted 31 Dec 2014 4:03 pm
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| The band I was playing with got cancelled one New Year's Eve back in the '80's. We collected our pay for the evening and went home. They were expecting a bigger crowd. |
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Bill C. Buntin
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Posted 1 Jan 2015 5:24 pm
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Mike, that is great. Like Doug said, broke even for a change! LOL!
Happy New Year!
Bill |
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Doug Johnson
From:
Brantford, Ont. Canada
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Posted 6 Jan 2015 11:19 am
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| While playing a popular Ontario casino we were approached by a fella who thought he would play stump the band. His subject....Gene Watson. He offered $100.00 stating we wouldn't know the song he was asking for. Problem is the lead singer, guitar player and myself are the biggest Gene fans going. After 7 attempts he quit that game. I haven't been tipped so kindly ever since. |
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Bill C. Buntin
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Posted 6 Jan 2015 12:21 pm
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So Doug which 7 did he ask for?
Let me guess?
Paper Rosie
Love on a Hot Afternoon
14 carat mind
Farewell party
Pick the Wildwood flower
Old man and his horn? (Is that the name)
Nothing sure look good on you
Got no reason
Am I close?
I grew up down here in Watson country I had to scratch my head to think of those. He has some good stuff. Always liked it. |
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Barry Hyman
From:
upstate New York, USA
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Posted 6 Jan 2015 3:26 pm
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I back up a singer; we were at a local bar, hired to play 7 to 10 pm. At 9:50 two young drunks walked in with pretty (new?) girlfriends, and they started to dance and enthuse loudly. At 10:00, when they realized we were done, one of the guys walked up and said, "How much to play another half hour?" The singer (who is sharp as hell and knows very well the value of money way up here in the Great North Woods where Nobody has Any -- she works in a factory as her day job) immediately said $100. The drunk, who clearly had been fingering the bill in his pocket, pulled out a crisp new hundred (he must have been a criminal as well as a drunk -- the girls were way too pretty) and gave it to us, so we played another half-hour. The only problem was that the bar owner felt humiliated by this. He thought that it was crazy for us to stop just when a fresh crop of paying customers had walked in -- four customers is a crowd in this part of the world. I agreed -- I had been advocating that we keep playing even before the drunk offered money. But the bar owner was annoyed that we had taken the drunk's money -- he thought we should have kept playing as long as there was a "crowd" and that maybe later we should have asked the bar owner for extra money. He felt humiliated; after that he was willing to hire me but not the singer. Although that bar recently went belly-up... The music business is pretty desperate out here in the Real Country...
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