Notes_Norton

Nice And Easy – Frank Sinatra

Thanks for sharing. Looks like you had fun. Hawaii is the only US state I haven't visited yet. Alaska was 49. Any tips for someone who hasn't been there?

R.I.P. Gordon The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald – Gordon Lightfoot

No emotional distress, no offense, everything is fine, Kenny. I took it as humor. On the road we did a month in Albany, GA, where I dated a hooker for the month. She took a liking to me, and if she didn't have a client, she took me home with her. Most of her clients were high salaried businessmen. That was before AIDS, when anything anyone could have caught was curable. I didn't catch anything. In Ft. Lauderdale, FL, I dated an “exotic dancer”. She made a lot of money and worked hard for it. I learned a lot about working girls in my days on the road, and have a huge respect for them. A lot of people who don't mind their own business say these people are 'selling their bodies'. That may be so, but if working 40 hours per week for some faceless corporation isn't also selling your body, I don't know what is. As you can tell, I'm a live-and-let-live kind of guy. As long as you aren't harming someone else, it's OK with me. Notes ♫

Ah, remembering my years gigging at the nudist camp. They came in all shapes, sizes, and ages.

I have a few jokes about unemployed people but it doesn't matter, none of them work.

Did you hear about the guy who got hit in the head with a can of soda? He was lucky it was a soft drink.

The dancers treated us like younger brothers, and there was no socializing with us or the customers after hours. The place could lose their license. I realized the girls were hard-working, and some of them took it as an art form. Unlike the t___y bars of today, they took their time undressing. Like musicians, most of them were making a living doing what they liked to do. One of the girls was billed with the tag line "with a million dollar wardrobe" but she didn't keep it on all that long. All in all, for a boy of 18 years old, it was pretty much a dream job. Notes ♫

Ballin' the Jack – Sidney Bechet

I may be an adult entertainer, but I reserve the right to act immature

It's All Over Now – Rolling Stones Back in the day, when we did this song, we would sometimes introduce it as: "She used to kiss me on the lips, but it's all over now."

Down A Hole – Alice In Chains

There was a kidnapping at school yesterday. Don’t worry, though – he woke up!!

When I was 18 years old, I wasn't an adult yet, and I gigged in a strip bar. The girls were nice. They danced and took their clothes off on stage in front of us. It's a good thing the band was sitting on chairs, or my appreciation would have shown. Anyway, you had to be 21 to enter, or 18 to work there, so I guess I've been an adult entertainer since before I was an adult.

Bad to the Bone – George Thorogood and the Destroyers

Looked great in lingerie too.

The machine at the coin factory just suddenly stopped working, with no explanation. It doesn’t make any cents.

I was playing at a huge motor coach park many years ago. The kind that look like buses. At that time I had a subwoofer which consisted of two 12" speakers in a 1/2" plywood case. While we were doing the sound check, the guy who booked us sat down on the woofer and said, "If I had one of these, I wouldn't need a wife!" Notes ♫

And that is exactly what we love about this fred. Notes ♫

Thursday Morning - Giles, Giles and Fripp

Rocket Number Nine Take Off For The Planet Venus – Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra

I'm going to start a procrastinator's club. I'll let you know when I get around to it.

I wasn’t originally going to get a brain transplant, but then I changed my mind.

I've read that deaf folks enjoy loud music with a lot of bass, because they can feel the vibrations. I don't think the deaf people that came into our outdoor restaurant had that experience. We max the volume out there to about 85dba at the closest table to the band. So many adults come to eat lunch, and we don't want to chase them away. Every dollar spent at the restaurant when we are playing is job security. The owner likes us a lot, but he wouldn't have us if we started chasing people away. After the lunch crowd leaves, we can crank it up a bit, but not too much. It's important to play at the appropriate volume for each venue. We have one yacht club we often play that during dinner we max out at about 65dba. When dinner is over and the dancing starts, we peak at a little over 100dba. We have another regular client that likes it loud, and we are about 115 near the speakers. I put in my musician's ear-plugs for that gig. The deaf folks might like us there. :D Notes ♫

We were playing outdoors, under the canopy, to an almost full house yesterday (the tourist season is waning). There were only a couple of tables left. A group of bikers parked, came in, pushed two tables together, and about a dozen of them sat down. Then they started "talking" with sign language, and I realized they were all deaf. Hands flying everywhere, and ignoring the band. Other people were dancing, listening and applauding, but these folks were not paying attention at all. Imagine that. Actually, I was fascinated by their conversion. I could see the facial and physical expression with their hands, whether it was excitement, disagreement, joy, or whatever. Quite entertaining. They had their meal, and left. I hope they come back. Notes ♫