This brings to mind the days when I played with the band in NYC ... All the guys lived on Staten Island, and before the Verrazzano Bridge was built (1964) the only way to get to a gig in Brooklyn was via the Brooklyn Ferry ... Especially during the summer, the wait to get a vehicle on board could be 2 - 3 hours !!! ... So we would pack the van, and one of us would get in the ferry line at about 2:30 - 3:00 in the afternoon ... the other guys would leave home much later, park there cars at the terminal and meet the van on the other side of the bay ... there were times when the guy in the van would be on the same boat as the other guys who left home a couple of hours later ... At that time, union scale for a 4 hour gig was about $25 ... Considering the time spent waiting for the ferry, the van driver probably made about $2.50 an hour for the gig !!! ....
The things we do, to do the things we LOVE !!!
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