Gun-slung-it

[Iain Ferguson]

Wholehearted  agree,

I play in a pub & club band, we pedal 60's garage punk and r&b, we  
don't do it for the money,  we do it cos we can all play bloody well  
and we just love playing live, and to keep this music alive,
We restrict ourselves to about 24 / 30 gigs a year, playing round the  
south west. We played Bristol last night to about 50 people and  
tonight in Frome to about the same.

We all played in serious bands at one time or another, and for  
whatever reasons we jacked it in, and now its brilliant cos you are  
playing exactly what you want, the pressure is off.

However, if you were in a band you seriously want to do business, its  
a real nasty bottom of the stomach feeling when you realise that you  
are playing to a handful of people, especially when you have to look  
at the costs of transport, keeping the gear in working order, and if  
if your salary, it really hurts.

been there a wore the t-shirt in the last ressession, I don't envy  
those boys at all at this time, Its hard....

Iain

On 28 Feb 2009, at 22:30, StevePXR5 at aol.com wrote:

>
> An addendum to my last post.
> If it was me, the musician who joined a big name band, which turned  
> out
> great for a good number of years, but turned sour after a number of   
> others.
> I stuck with it, but it came to a point where I thought f*** this,  
> I'll do
> what I want to do, even if it means playing in front of 20 people.
> I hope those 20 people crawled out thinking "shit, they were good"
> If that was the case, job done.
>
> Steve.
>
>
> In a message dated 28/02/2009 20:23:04 GMT Standard Time,
> Thaiboysexpress at AOL.COM writes:
>
> Had the  none too pleasant spectacle of watching Alan Daveys  
> Gunslinger play
>
> to about 20 people in a less than salubrious pub in the midlands  
> last  night.
> We  did wonder if he looks out from the stage and quietly  thinks  
> "Ooops".