[Dixielandjazz] Re: Pizza's How much dough

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Hey Dan:

Great to hear man,  yes they often do move the good gigs, and sometimes 
the Dixieland Bands are just put into the wrong places at the right 
time  :))   and vice versa of course, but yes ya gotta just move on 
down the road a piece and knock on another door.  Might not be behind 
door number one or even two, but maybe sitting there behind door number 
three is a great gig.    Heck the way I hear it you got enough TUBAS to 
open a Warehouse size museum and put in a stage and a Beer Bar and run 
your own CLUB down yonder in Texas.  :))

By the way I just found and opened that last bottle of Beer you left at 
my place last year :))  how long does that stuff last anyway??

Guess it was all right I drank it and had no ill effects yet anyway :))

Hope to see ya again soon,  Bring Beer  it's always welcome in these 
here parts  even "LONE STAR" :))

Cheers,

Tom Wiggins

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Augustine <ds.augustine at mail.utexas.edu>
To: DJML <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:17:38 -0500
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Pizza's How much dough

   Folks-- 
   It may depend (as almost everything does) on where you are. 
    I played a 3-hour gig tonight (5-piece band) in beautiful downtown 
Hutto, Texas (population about 2,000), about 20 miles northeast of 
Austin, with a very real threat of severe thunderstorms, large 
baseball-size hail, and damaging winds likely in the area, at 
Maggiore's Pizza and Wings, and got good money for it, plus free pizza, 
wings, and multiple pitchers of beer. It was the first time (FIRST 
TIME) the owner had ever done this, and he thought it was great. The 
place was packed. Toward the end, we even had dancers, which energized 
the crowd even more. 
    On the other hand, down in big ol' Austin i used to play in a 
dixieland band at a pizza place, and the response was lukewarm, and it 
ended. Answer? Depends (as we older folks say and sometimes wear). 
    One thing is sure, as Steve and Tom and others keep saying, is to 
keep at it. Who knew that Hutto (home of the "Hutto Hippos" football 
team) might be a hotbed of dixieland fans and venues? 
 
   Dan