Well we’ve played the Trolley Tour many times before, but none have ever been as, dare I say, profitable as the one we played last night. We were asked to play at Harry’s Detour on South Main last night, and the owner Chuck was gracious enough to compensate us for playing. We actually made a killing on our Merch sales thanks to Karen and Sam. Even though some nights are as great as last night, they also come with a price….
During our last set we were playing our new song, “The Jesus and The Devil”, and this woman comes up to me and just flips me off out of nowhere. Now when that happens I just ignore it or laugh, especially when all I’m doing is playing music. It just means this person is trying to be funny, or they are messed up on methamphetamines, or they are genuinely crazy. We had a similar run in with this problem while playing on Bourbon Street in New Orleans a few weeks ago. Well this particular lady was under the impression that she was a great harmonica player, and she wanted to play on one of our songs. Well it was the Trolley Tour so it’s kind of like an everything goes kind of event. So we humored her and let her play one song. For one, it was horrible. Yet she felt compelled to hang around and keep playing. Well she eventually stopped, and then went on a nonsense drunk tirade, accusing people of things even though she didn’t know them, and being very insulting and derogatory towards us and our friends. Well it eventually came to a boiling point. It first started with the crazy lady insulting our friend Karen for no reason. That made Nick exchange some words with her. Well then she passed out in the grass some 20 feet away and left us alone for sometime. This gave us time to pack up and load up Velma and her 5×8 friend to get ready to ship out. Well Chuck was slammed in the kitchen so we waited for a bit to get our reward for the evening. In the mean time he gave us a few free beers. Well this was a great way to end the night…..
But wait…
Out of the depths of Hell rose up the evil, crazy, heavily intoxicated prostitute (her own words, not ours…) and she was ready for round whatever she was on! Well I about had it. All I wanted to do was drink one beer in peace with my friends and that was tainted and ruined by the virus lady. I went off on her. Cussed her out, told her she was ruining everyone’s time, and that she needed to leave. You think that stopped her? Hell no! It made it worse. She was loving the attention she was getting. Even though it was negative attention from us because we couldn’t get rid of her. So Josh and Karen came up with a brilliant idea. They struck up a random conversation about Back To The Future movies, and got everyone involved in it. Well we all just ignored her and talked over here while she was trying to talk. She didn’t like not being heard. The louder she went on, the louder we went on. No one payed her any attention. It was just like in Back To The Future, when Marty’s plan started to go wrong and his hand started disappearing at the dance. Well this eventually happened with the virus. She got so upset and mad when no one was listening to her that she eventually started stomping her feet like a brat and yelling, “Someone listen to me!” So we wiped out the human version of the Swine Flu with our own anti-virus, and she stomped her way back down to Hell where she came from. Now that was a job well done. It just sucks that even when you have such a good night like this particular night, you run the risk of it being ruined by other entities. But when you triumph over that situation, just makes the day even better. So here’s to you Josh, Nick, Karen, Jimmy , Kevin, and Sam, for all of us having a great time, and triumphing over evil at all costs. Until next time, swirl on…
Don’t forget about how crazy bitch was drinking your wine during all of this! what a jerk. you handled it like a pro. you did what we all wanted to do all night: go off on her! ah well, at least it makes for a good story. great show, by the way!!!! way to sell some cds!!