Fun and Games

It was Wednesday and as usual lately hardly anyone at the club, and tonight we didn't even have Michael ( he was away for the evening). We did though, have our favorite Michael substitute, Bill Holstein.
Bill Holstein is just alot of fun. If you've been watching Rockstar INXS, and seeing those folks get into the whole rock mode, then you'll have an idea about my buddy Bill (except, he's cuter, and can play a whole lot better). Bill gives body English a whole new meaning, you know how we musicians make those faces when we play (what's up with that anyway ?), the whole body movement thing...you've seen it.
Anyway, we decided to make the evening complete fun and turn it into our Mike Jones night. Now Mike, is our buddy who sits in with us on Wednesdays on percussion. Mike is about 6' 7" with feet the size of a small yacht ( ha ha ha, gigglesnort***).
Every week I try and try to get Jones to sing all in good fun of course but he never takes the bait, so last night I decided to become Mike and sing for him ( his voice would remind you of the ghetto version of Barry White). It was funny, at least in my warped mind.
The only truly negative on the evening was that prior to starting the night out someone stole Bill's guitar and his amp rig, sending him into (as you can imagine) a complete dither
Now all of this truly makes me angry because this kind of stuff is not supposed to happen at the Empty Glass, so I'm quite upset by the whole thing.
I said in a recent post when a similar thing like that happened in Parkersburg, that people need to realize that first of all we musicians don't have alot; many don't have transportation, their own home, nor loads of money to buy these things consistently; so it's a real pain when you rip us off. No one deserves it but least of all musicians
Be that as it may, we wound our way through the evening and managed to smile and laugh, and have a good time.
So as far as the lesson here, it's to have fun and games regardless.
If you feel like you need to exist with the forty thieves you need to go where they are and leave hard working decent people who can least afford it ALONE !!!

None the less...
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