[Dixielandjazz] Hot Cruise Ship Gig Available>>Try The Titanic

[BudTuba at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/1/05 6:11:58 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
tcashwigg at aol.com writes:

The pay  scale on many ships for entertainers is about 
the same as flippin' burgers  at McDonalds and the cruise gigs are a lot 
less glamorous than they sound  like, especially on the Carnival Lines, 
and their food is about on par  with Denny's coffee shops.   But they do 
have cheap  cruises.



I just returned from Las Vegas and visited the Titanic exhibit at the  
Tropicana.  One interesting thing about the musicians on board.  They  were not 
passengers and were not crew.  They were hired as contract workers  and therefore 
had no rights to life boats until all passengers had been boarded  and all 
remaining crew had been boarded.  There were not enough lifeboats  to accommodate 
everybody anyhow so it was a given that the band would go down  with the 
boat. The biggest part of the crew were the coal shovelers in the  boiler room who 
numbered 360 some and shoveled 670 tons of coal per day in  over 100 degree 
conditions.  None of them even know what was happening,  perhaps a blessing in 
disguise. 
 
To bad there weren't any DJ's available to take that gig.  

 

Roy (Bud) Taylor
Smugtown Stompers JB
"we  ain't just whistling dixie!"