Reply #7: Towards the end, my band had 8, sometimes 9 people playing up on stage... [View All]

[MiddleFingerMom]

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...(my DREAM was to have 6 more musicians -- a 3-pc horn section
and three ENORMOUS belt-'em-out gospel singers in choir robes
singing back-up)...
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...and at some of the places we played, the crowd was virtually
nonexistent during our first set -- but might be packed in by
the hundreds shoulder-to-shoulder by the end of the night.
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I had a FAVORITE line to use when we would be up there playing
our hearts out for half-a-dozen people.
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"The band actually LIKES audiences this small, because if you
start to get ugly... we can kick your ass."
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