Emery Davis wrote:

>
> The closest I got to the fat opera contracts was doing the Opera Ball for many
> years, but as ex-802 I can say that at least for club dates "continual music"
> meant 10 minutes off per hour, and the music really was continual. You used
> your 10 minutes to try and scab a whiskey somewhere, and you needed at
> least someone who could pretend to play drums during the drummer's breaks.
> The money was better than straight scale but not good enough. I can remember
> finishing gigs like the Quadrille positively aching...

Hey, no one ever said those gigs were going to be no strings attached! :P

Mark Lipton
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