And yet more definitions:

carriage: trap, gig, ponycart, dogcart
boat: pinnace, cutter, gig
prostitute: male prostitute, rent-boy, gigolo, gig

gig (gîg) Slang. noun
A job, especially a booking for musicians.

verb, intransitive
gigged, gigging, gigs
To work as a musician: "gigging weekends as a piano player in the ski joints" (Joel Oppenheimer).

[Origin unknown.]


Personally I never found giggin' to be work, it was always fun for me. Working was something I had to do to pay the rent playing music was something I wanted to do for fun and getting paid for it was the icing on the cake.

When my recordings take on the traits of work.....I'm quitting the job. I use the term work to describe the art as in this is my "body of work" used as a noun not a verb.

I take creating my work very seriously, but it is not work to me.

I agree with it is part of the jargon of musicians.....getting paid or not. I too like the term. All hobbies and jobs and groups come up with their own slang jargon, so when they are talking to others in the same field it is a common bond of understanding.
jam on,
Terry


[This message has been edited by trtjazz (edited 11-22-2002).]