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Very occasional quote of the day: What “a gig” was

  • December 12, 2019
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“You didn’t get a gig for a weekend, like two days at The Gate. It wasn’t like that. We’d stay at a place a week to three weeks, sometimes seven nights a week and five […]

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Drum roll, please…

  • March 1, 2011
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My best drum roll story: playing an 8 AM party on Christmas in Hong Kong for about a thousand Chinese children. The emcee let us know through a combination of broken English and strange hand […]

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