Odd places I've played

Cal Sharp · Post by **Cal Sharp** » 31 Jan 2011 8:38 am

Revolving stages, mountain tops, gay bars, gas stations... Steel Guitar Insanity

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 31 Jan 2011 11:50 am

i hear you, cal. me too! they've got all of those venues around san francisco.

Roger Crawford · Post by **Roger Crawford** » 31 Jan 2011 11:52 am

So, which was your favotite?

Dave Harmonson · Post by **Dave Harmonson** » 31 Jan 2011 12:05 pm

Roof top of a car dealership for their Western Round-up days. Had to move gear up two adjacent ladders, and stand on a hot tar roof. Lovely.

Brett Lanier · Post by **Brett Lanier** » 31 Jan 2011 2:02 pm

We've got a place called "Robbie's Wildlife Refuge" up here, it's a bar, just covered with taxadermy. Robby is no longer with us but they made a paper machet version of his head and stuck it up on the wall with all the critters.

Rick Schmidt · Post by **Rick Schmidt** » 31 Jan 2011 2:48 pm

Cal Sharp wrote:Revolving stages, mountain tops, gay bars, gas stations... Steel Guitar Insanity

Revolving stages-check
mountain tops-check
gay bars-check
gas stations-check

Ok Cal, how about nudist colonies ?

Cal Sharp · Post by **Cal Sharp** » 31 Jan 2011 3:07 pm

Ok Cal, how about nudist colonies ?

Well, if I can dig up one of Speedy West's old guitars...

Larry Baker · Post by **Larry Baker** » 31 Jan 2011 3:22 pm

We had a 4 pc. band and a girl singer on ONE pool table. Just a little close!!!! Larry

Roual Ranes · Post by **Roual Ranes** » 31 Jan 2011 6:38 pm

Dallas Deaf Club.
They danced up a storm.

Clyde Mattocks · Post by **Clyde Mattocks** » 31 Jan 2011 6:51 pm

Ed's Sports Center's Annual Swamp Run and Outhouse Burning every New Years Day. Race thru a swamp thicket, first prize 200.00. The culmination of the day's activities was the burning of an old outhouse atop a pile of lumber. One year it rained and the wood wouldn't light, so they dynamited it. This was in Sims, N. C. circa 1985.

Dave Little · Post by **Dave Little** » 31 Jan 2011 7:20 pm

the wood wouldn't light, so they dynamited it

Plenty of that clear beady drink on hand, I assume!

Bob Hickish · Post by **Bob Hickish** » 31 Jan 2011 7:45 pm

Brett Lanier wrote:We've got a place called "Robbie's Wildlife Refuge" up here, it's a bar, just covered with taxadermy. Robby is no longer with us but they made a paper machet version of his head and stuck it up on the wall with all the critters.

Man ! How cool is that -- make you want to buy a bar

LOL

Dave Grafe · Post by **Dave Grafe** » 31 Jan 2011 7:56 pm

...biker clubs, penitentaries, berry fields...

Post by **Dave Mudgett** » 31 Jan 2011 8:29 pm

Mountain top gig. Inside a cave. In a bobbing barge on the Susquehanna River, connected by a single 120VAC extension cord, playing to people onshore. Minor league baseball games. Demolition derby track in back of the largest auto junkyard I have ever seen - yes, they made the demolition cars out of scrap parts & ran several demolitions as we were setting up, the bass player had time to run a car and crack it up. Mud/jello wrestling contests. Strip club. Some really annoying frat parties with so many drunk people falling over everything I wouldn't bring a decent guitar or amp. Whatever.

The worst - booking agent error and showing up with an old-school rockabilly band to a biker bar with a crowd expecting a heavy metal band. "Man, where's your bleep semi-truck with your PA and what's this Elvis bleep? We wanna hear some bleep Nazareth and AC/DC." Sorta Bob's Country Bunker in reverse.

Bob Blair · Post by **Bob Blair** » 31 Jan 2011 9:52 pm

Filthy smoky rooms full of drunken criminals. Counting the cockroaches for something to do during the breaks. Male dancers during the breaks on "Ladies' Night". That was pretty much the Toronto bar circuit. I suppose it must have had its bad side too (apologies to Hunter S. Thompson).

Brint Hannay · Post by **Brint Hannay** » 31 Jan 2011 10:09 pm

In front of stacks of tires in a BJ's Wholesale Club.

In the middle of the ladies' wear section of a department store. (Not as much fun as it sounded.)

Strolling the stands with acoustic guitars at a minor league hockey game.

In the employees' cafeteria at an IBM facility, first set at 2 A.M., then 8 A.M., 2 P.M., and 8 P.M.

c c johnson · Post by **c c johnson** » 31 Jan 2011 11:54 pm

I play the classy joints only. Ten cent beer nights,10 beer limit. We start playing at 9 and the fight starts at 10.cc

Owen Barnes · Post by **Owen Barnes** » 1 Feb 2011 3:45 am

The River Walk in San Antonio, TX (floating barge), and a flat-bed trailer, outside, 32 degrees. They stand out in my memory.

Kevin Hatton · Post by **Kevin Hatton** » 1 Feb 2011 4:37 am

This is good. Keep 'em coming. Ohhhhh, why do I play?!!! "I promise ma, I'll get a job tomorrow".

Dave Grothusen · Post by **Dave Grothusen** » 1 Feb 2011 4:49 am

the hay loft of a big barn

Bart Reed · Post by **Bart Reed** » 1 Feb 2011 7:23 am

Odd Fellows Meeting Hall - inside Marengo Cave. On a tennis court at IU Bloomington. Loft of a hay barn.

Fred Shannon · Post by **Fred Shannon** » 1 Feb 2011 7:54 am

On the roof of a drive in theatre projection building and concession stand.

phred

Chris Brooks · Post by **Chris Brooks** » 1 Feb 2011 8:03 am

On a flat-bed trailer, high in the mountains of Honduras, under the baking noonday sun, for a hundred or so small Central American soldiers in unmarked uniforms, and three gringos in sunglasses and Hawaiian shirts.

. . . then there was the Oral Zumwalt Memorial Rodeo in Missoula . . and Cook County Jail . . . and the Hell's Angels' ranch in San Bernardino. . .

It'll all be in my next novel.

Chris

John Swain · Post by **John Swain** » 1 Feb 2011 8:32 am

I've played by a bustop in Trenton,NJ(cough,cough!),Flat bed truck opening Pocono 500(Singer did "StarSpangled Banner" then Bobtail Semis raced past us at 90+mph), Circle Line tour ship around Manhattan,Ladies night with the Chippendales( got my butt pinched),plus the usual(biker bars, strip joints, buckets of blood!)..LOL

Cal Sharp · Post by **Cal Sharp** » 1 Feb 2011 8:32 am

And then there was the Huntsville (TX) Prison Rodeo with Faron and Ernest Tubb. Getting into a prison is almost as hard as getting out, what with all the security. No naked scanners or full-body pat downs, but we couldn't even bring our buses in.

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