[pimp_vince]

anyways... i was sitting around at school playin guitar on my spare. a kid i know in a band has a show at the university's pub and says he's lookin for a guy to do a 10-15 minute set while they rest between sets. so yah, he wants me to play my acoustic.

so i was thinkin of playin:
-Bron Yr Aur (led zep)
-Classical Gas (clapton's version)
-Knockin on heaven's door (clapton's take on electric... wah and all)

do you guys think this would go nicely? the drummer wants something to contrast the van halen/ac-dc stuff that they're playin. but alas i can't party afterwards, i have to leave for nova scotia the next day at 8 am (that's a sunday to top it off.)

[redhotguitar]

congrats, vince. sounds like that will be fun..you can recover/sleep on the way to nova scotia! party on!

[pimp_vince]

dude, i'm playing at about 9:30 and there's another set after that... plus partying equals me ######ing up the questioning at the ticket booth and getting busted for tryin to take some weed with me on the plane.

[Schnapps73]

eep..........good job though

[dadfad]

Between-set sets can be a good gig. For several years I played between the sets of an old bluesguy (not famous at all) named Buddy Folkes ("Yer Buddy" Buddy Folkes-The World's Biggest One-Man Band ) at a club where he'd played every Friday and Saturday for many years. I did fifteen minutes and he did forty-five. He was the advertised-act and I was the filler (even though I was probably a better guitarist than him, he was old and black and therefore "authentic" while I was just a young (back then) white (still) guy. I wasn't supposed to do any of "his tunes" (which wasn't a big thing since his set tended to be more toward Elmore James/Jimmy Reed/John Lee Hooker and my stuff was more an older style). It was a good gig. I honed my solo acoustic skills before an audience, but with low-pressure and only needing to fill fifteen minutes at a time, which made it easier and often allowed me to even repeat the same set or repeat my "virtuoso tunes" as the crowd re-cycled. The exposure got me a number of other jobs and eventually Buddy and I alternated complete sets each as the crowd started asking for "just one more" at the end of my short-set (which was fine with Buddy because he still got paid the same, and I got a little "also appearing" line under his name in ads and the on the sign!). And another plus was after closing I'd get to sit around with Buddy and drink whiskey and listen to his great stories (".....hell, the re-po mens came and carried the couch right out from under me an' John Lee while we's sittin' on it.....") (He played an old Gretch electric, rack harmonica, a bass-drum and hi-hat and (on some tunes) a key-board which he played on the floor with a set of shoes he'd made with pop-sickle sticks taped to the toes!). I played for drinks and tips only (which sometimes was more than the fifty dollars Buddy was paid). A between-set gig can be a valuable one in my opinion. If it goes over well, you might want to talk to the pub-owner about becoming the "regular" between-sets act for every band he hires.


(About ten years later, Buddy became the between-set act at a blues-bar where my band was the house-band. That old club had closed down finally and I knew Buddy could use a regular gig. I payed him the fifty a night myself, which was half of my share of the four-hundred a night our band got.)

[pimp_vince]

that's awesome... i don't think i'll be a regular, as i'm underage and the guys i'm "also appearing with" only have a one-time deal with the pub, they just asked me to come along for kicks.