jamesg1213

Moshkiae

Tom Payne and David Payne

Weren't they in 'The Windows'..with Roddy Frame?

I think he'll see right through that one.

craigb

jamesg1213

Moshkiae

Tom Payne and David Payne

Weren't they in 'The Windows'..with Roddy Frame?

I think he'll see right through that one.

You know the old saying, when a window closes it's a payne to get it back opened again.

jamesg1213

Moshkiae

Tom Payne and David Payne

Weren't they in 'The Windows'..with Roddy Frame?

Funny! ... but not when I was in Santa Barbara that I know ... he moved to Portland, which is one of the reasons why I ended up here in this area ... stayed with his band here in Portland on Couch St, a sort of strange mix with a violin and country feel, whose sound, I really do not remember too well.
 
Later, in this band, at Cousins, a club they were playing at, Tom's Ludwig set was stolen, and he had invested over 5k dollars on it ... to my knowledge he has never bought a drum set since ... and quit drumming and he was very good ... I used to show him the Moonie stuff and the Moerlin stuff ... and his hero was Carl Palmer. Last I talked to him, he was in Spokane ... I'll check the email and the links again when I get home!

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.

Big Wooley's.

Classic.