{"id":2199,"date":"2011-07-01T06:11:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T10:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilktone.com\/?p=2199"},"modified":"2023-03-27T11:06:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T15:06:12","slug":"gig-anecdotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=2199","title":{"rendered":"Gig Anecdotes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gig Anecdotes<\/a> is a web site devoted to exactly what you would expect, personal anecdotes about wacky experiences by gigging musicians.  For example, there’s the story<\/a> about the highly experienced drummer who took a gig working with an amateur choreographer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We all got a bunch of satisfaction out of this exchange, which took place immediately after another of her inane musical ‘directions’ —<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dancer:<\/em> Have you ever even worked with dancers before?
\nDrummer:<\/em> Sure I have.
\nDancer (incredulously):<\/em> Oh really? Where?
\nDrummer (nonchalant):<\/em> Academy Awards.
\nDancer: (silence)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The stories from most of my own gigs were either had-to-be-there moments or are mostly sad, rather than funny.  Like the time I showed up for a jazz gig at a venue that turned out not to be a country club, but a country bar (no, there wasn’t chicken wire<\/a>).  The couple of patrons in there left as soon as we started playing, except for one drunk who pulled out a harmonica and proceeded to play along with us.  The bandleader mistakenly thought if he let him sit in on a blues he’d be satisfied and stop, but that just encouraged him.  This went on for an entire set.  Did I mention he was the only audience member at this point?  For a moment I thought the pianist was going to get in a fistfight with him.  Needless to say, that was my one and only gig at that club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have a gig story you want to share?  Go over to Gig Anecdotes<\/a> and tell the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gig Anecdotes is a web site devoted to exactly what you would expect, personal anecdotes about wacky experiences by gigging musicians.  For example, there’s the story about the highly experienced drummer who took a gig working with an amateur choreographer. We all got a bunch of satisfaction out of this exchange, which took place immediately … Continue reading Gig Anecdotes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15350306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1372,1376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gigs","category-humor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peFHCc-zt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15350306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7968,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions\/7968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}