Things That Piss Me The **** Off

<p><span style="color: #00ffff;">Lots of things can happen and/or go wrong when playing live on stage (gigging). Since I've played regularly on stage for well over 20 years, I thought it would be fun to share some of the things that go on "behind the scenes". The average person has no idea what we musicians put ourselves through in order for them to be "entertained".</span></p><p><span style="color: #00ffff;">These will be sort of like the old "I hate it when that happens" scenario. You know, like when you fall off of a tall building and hang your eyelid on a nail on the way down....I hate it when that happens.</span></p><p><span style="color: #00ffff;">So I will periodically be adding a new installment. This will be the first of many.</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: #ff9900;">So, when you first start out, you don't have a lot of stuff....or money....or knowledge....or sense. Way back when I first started gigging a lot, we just hauled our equipment in pick-ups....three pick-ups to be exact. Well when you haul equipment in a pick-up you don't want to get it messed up so you cover it with a tarp. We always covered our stuff with tarps. But, it never failed, especially on long trips, it would RAIN. Then we would always have to stop several times on the way to re-tie the tarps back down because they would always come loose. When you go to a gig, you always want to look half way decent, so we were always dressed up, our hair brushed just right, and wearing our best boots. But by the time we would get to the gig after having to get out in the rain several times, jack around with the tarps and equipment, and wade around in the mud, we looked like drowned rats or that we had just came from a mud wrestling contest.....and we were the wrestlers....and lost. It's not easy to get women to throw their underwear on stage at you when you look like that. <img title="Tongue out" src="http://www.mixposure.com/include/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif" border="0" alt="Tongue out" /></span></p><p><span style="color: #00ff00;">That pisses me the **** off!!</span></p>