I did three gigs yesterday.
How have you guys accomplished this for 30 or more years.
I'd rather lay brick.

Lay brick? You kidding?

Even with all the hassle of breaking down and setting up for 3 gigs in a day, I CAN'T (or REFUSE TO ) believe that laying brick is better ....
t.

I used to point brick.

What I like about playing an arranger is, I don't have to do it on a scaffold.

Eddie

Eddie,

He needs telling that pointing bricks is much easier than laying them, don't know of anyone who suffers from backache gigging

I sometimes have 4 gigs. Now my shows only last 55 minutes long typically.

On Friday I did 4 gigs. I did a morning double at a nursing facility. One downstairs in health care at 9:30 a.m., one upstairs in rehab at 10:30 a.m.. The rehab show was only 45 minutes long.

Then I did a 2:00 show at a retirement home and a 7:00 program at another retirement home - more like 7:15 because I was caught in bad traffic.

I drove 145 miles that day. Then I came hope and patiently listened while my wife gave me grief about how I'm not staying emotionally connected with her. That's like two gigs in itself!

Beakybird

I spent a summer laying brick and stone when I was a young lad.

Used the money to purchase my first B3.

The upside of that summer was that I soon found out that there was not a fistfight nor wrestling match to be found that I could not win.

That came in handy the next summer, playing the B3 in those steel mill bars...


--Mac

My wife loves bricks, especially when I'm laying them. I installed a 160-foot brick sidewalk and a 22-foot X 44-foot brick patio at our home. I don't recall exactly how many bricks that amounted to but it was somewhere around 7,500. After that job was done, which took a couple months, I would have gladly carried someone's B3 on my back for the same time period if they would have done that brick job. I HATE BRICKS!

Gary

Not quite as bad as Gary's project, but I can relate. I tiled a 20x25 sunroom with Mexican tile and even though I had a knowledgeable buddy (sucker) helping me (he did the skill work, I mixed concrete and handed him tiles), it was amoung the worst experiences of my life. I swore off 'home projects' forever. I'm guessing that bricks are at least twice as bad.

chas

When I was a kid (about 14 - 15 yrs old) my father decided it would be a good idea to replace the 'dirt' in our side yard (couldn't get grass to grow there) with asphalt blocks the city of NY was selling ... I don't remember how many blocks there were, but it was a pretty good size yard, and the 'kicker' was that there were 31 steps to get from the street to the side yard ... we got all the guys in the neighborhood to form a 'chain gang' to pass the blocks from one guy to the next all the way up the stairs ...

PS .. I had to carry my accordion and amplifier up and down those stairs ...
Of course I have the calf muscles to show for it ...

t.