[Dixielandjazz] Crappy pianos

[Jerry Brown]

Hi John,

Sammy is playing here at Lakenham tonight - not one of
my events - so I hope that have arranged a decent
piano for Alan Robinson to play!

Cheers,

Jerry
Norwich,
U.K.
--- Dingo <roadie at btinternet.com> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: JOHN FARRELL
> To: DJML
> Sent: 22 February 2007 07:26
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Crappy pianos (was last man
> out)
> 
>  In my experience the worst ones usually have a coat
> or two of white paint
> slapped on 'em. Once I was booked to play a solo gig
> and found myself
> presented with such an instrument with most of the
> Fs and Bbs broken. I put
> on my coat and left.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> John,
> 
> Back in the days when I worked with Sammy we did a
> gig somewhere in the west
> midlands. Andy, the pianist, and I arrived early to
> find the upright piano
> being dried out with two Calor gas heaters. Andy
> refused to play so the rest
> of the band got through two sets without him. On the
> first number of the last
> set Andy joined the band well 'lubricated' and,
> starting at each end,
> proceeded to snap off a couple of hammers on each
> tune and tossed them to the
> audience. By the end of the set the piano was
> hammerless and the club manager
> was going ballistic and threatening to sue
> Sammy/Andy. The latter looked the
> manager in the eye and just said, "If you had booked
> Oscar Peterson you
> wouldn't have expected him to play that load of
> xxxx, so why expect me to".
> IIRC the club sent Sammy a bill of 600 quid to
> replace the piano to which he
> suggested they went forth and multiplied ~ or words
> to that effect ;-)
> ~
> John D
> 
> 
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