Re:What's the cheapest you ever worked?
2012/08/22 16:11:42
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The least I've ever been paid (tho I've done many "pro bono" gigs) was $5 bucks at my very first "pool party" job when I was 15. Have also been paid rather handsomely once to play in a club that was switching over from country to rock the week we were there. This was a giant place in Fort Worth that could hold around 500 folks and other than us there was one male bartender, two female waitresses and a single, solitary drunk as cooter brown couple who danced all night long culminating in them both falling down on the dance floor, taking most of their clothes off and attempting to best the Kama Sutra. At that point we quit playing (heck, we were just rehearsing by then anyway) and helped the bartender get them up, dressed and out the door. We were due to come back the next night but when we got there it was closed due to a shotgun slaying in the parking lot about twenty minutes earlier. We got our gear...we got our money (for both nights work) and a fond, fond memory of "Big Wooley's" in Fort Worth. Good times.