[Dixielandjazz] All Good Things Come To An End

[Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis]

I enjoyed a two year gig at one of the local casinos.  The reason we had the 
gig was to entertain the patrons while they stood in line waiting for the 
sailing.  This happened every hour or so.  Now the boat was concreted to the 
bank of the river with a moat around it.  It couldn't sail if it wanted to.

Everyone and the law pretended that the boats actually could sail and the 
patrons had to wait to board. ( are you laughing yet ? )

Finally someone figured out that the boats could make a whole lot of money 
by not pretending to sail and just selling tickets to get in.  Therefore 
they didn't need a band to entertain the patrons.  Good bye band.

The local casino that was capable of sailing finally was permitted to not 
sail thereby not letting that dirty old river to get in the way of making 
money thereby paying more taxes and not wasting all that valuable fuel to 
say nothing of the boat driver and crew that they didn't need anymore.

I haven't a clue as to why they don't just open casinos where ever and give 
up on this fiction of the good old river boat days.

I don't think any of the casinos here have OKOM bands but then again I don't 
ever visit them.
Larry
St. Louis

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ministry of Jazz" <jazzmin at actcom.net.il>
To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 11:34 AM
Subject: RE: [Dixielandjazz] All Good Things Come To An End


> Shalom Jazz Fans,
>
> Pat is no doubt correct. This means that the music, shows, food, or 
> anything
> else that may attract people to the place must also not be good enough to
> divert their attention from gambling. Does that mean that mediocrity will
> get the gig rather than quality?
>
> Elazar
> Dr. Jazz Dixieland Band
> Tekiya Trumpet Ensemble
> Jerusalem, Israel
> www.israel.net/ministry-of-jazz
> +972-2-679-2537
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: patcooke77 at yahoo.com [mailto:patcooke77 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 8:25 AM
> To: Steve barbone; DJML
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] All Good Things Come To An End
>
>
> ... The purpose of just about everything in a casino is to lure people 
> into
> the place in the hope that they will lose some money at the tables or the
> slots.  Whether they dance or not is not as important as whether they 
> gamble
> or not.
>
> Pat Cooke
> New Orleans
>
>
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