[Dixielandjazz] Audience put downs

Sat, 22 Jun 2002 22:44:51 EDT

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Hey Jerry:

We are talking twenty five years ago to a room full of heavily slurring 
Drunks in a pick up joint where nobody really listens to the music anyway, 
and the cat was just trying to impress the drunk chick he was trying to get 
next to.

The strange look on his face was because I reached out and shook his hand 
graciously and smiled widely when I said it tongue in cheek man, so it was 
not as brutal as it may have looked in my post.

Believe me I have been entertaining folks for a lot of years and never have 
done or said anything to insult my audience or make them go away with a 
negative attitude about the band or the music.   This same guy was there 
every night for years getting drunk and hanging out with the band when he 
couldn't catch a chick anyway.

Cheers,

Tom Wiggins
And I am almost nice, just ask anyone who really knows me.

Thanks Jerry.  I have been thinking of the times I have tried to compliment
a band/band member and it might have been misunderstood by the other party.

Rebecca

Here I go explaining myself again for those who thought I was intending to 
insult the audience, not a chance guys,  we are bantering about funny 
incidents here not band or musician practices, pull out your sense of humor 
and follow the original requests from Nancy for funny things that have 
happened, I am certain there will be others a lot stranger than mine.   
Obviously you folks never hung out in some of the places I had to work coming 
up, Lucky You.  I am certain you take music much too seriously to see the 
humor that often comes along with it.   

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<HTML>Hey Jerry:
 
 We are talking twenty five years ago to a room full of heavily slurring Drunks in a pick up joint where nobody really listens to the music anyway, and the cat was just trying to impress the drunk chick he was trying to get next to.
 
 The strange look on his face was because I reached out and shook his hand graciously and smiled widely when I said it tongue in cheek man, so it was not as brutal as it may have looked in my post.
 
 Believe me I have been entertaining folks for a lot of years and never have done or said anything to insult my audience or make them go away with a negative attitude about the band or the music. &nbsp;&nbsp;This same guy was there every night for years getting drunk and hanging out with the band when he couldn't catch a chick anyway.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Tom Wiggins
 And I am almost nice, just ask anyone who really knows me.
 
 
 Thanks Jerry. &nbsp;I have been thinking of the times I have tried to compliment
 a band/band member and it might have been misunderstood by the other party.
 
 Rebecca
 
 Here I go explaining myself again for those who thought I was intending to insult the audience, not a chance guys, &nbsp;we are bantering about funny incidents here not band or musician practices, pull out your sense of humor and follow the original requests from Nancy for funny things that have happened, I am certain there will be others a lot stranger than mine. &nbsp;&nbsp;Obviously you folks never hung out in some of the places I had to work coming up, Lucky You. &nbsp;I am certain you take music much too seriously to see the humor that often comes along with it. &nbsp;&nbsp;</HTML>

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