Why your band should play casinos November 5, 2006
Posted by Mike in Our Glorious Life.trackback
[Mike] Last Friday we played a show in an incredibly expensive nightclub attached to Cypress Bayou Casino in Charenton, LA. This casino, you may remember, had the commercials with the jingle that went, “Fun and friendly! Loose and easy! Cypress Bayou Casino!” I was in middle school when those commercials were in heavy rotation. Instead of singing the “Cypress Bayou Casino!” part at the end we’d replace it with “Rebecca Douglas!” (Rebecca, if you’re reading this: You’re a whore!) So right now, I’m gonna go the Jaye “Scrontor” Bhee route and just write a list of why your band should start playing casinos.
1. You get to perform in the same footsteps of other legendary artists such as Rob Thomas, Jewel, Jonny Lang and The Chee Weez.
2. Fuckin’ huge backstage area fully stocked with alcoholic beverages, exotic finger sandwiches and a vegetable tray complete with ranch dressing.
3. Get paid assdickloads of money.
4. Put all that money on black.
5. Lose.
6. Repeat.
The place was friggin’ huge(and expensive)! Sound check:
Fun stuff that happened that night:
1. Using Lionel Richie’s unused meal compensation tickets.
2. Tequila!
2b. Going to Fast Eddie’s and watching Ill D down the hugest, massivest plate of chili cheese fries ever.
3. Signing my first pair of huge breasts.
4. Seeing “She wants your number! —->” written on a girl’s hand and then watching her lick it off so she could write “& her & her & her & her!”
5. Giving autographs and continuing to never understand why.
6. Doing a Patron body shot from the stage off of a single mother.
7. Taking every free amenity from the backstage area as we could.
The show went really well, and the sound was fantastic. We totally trashed our voices and still managed to play a wedding the next night. We’re totally becoming a full-fledged wedding band these days. I feel like we’ve played a wedding every weekend for the past couple months. I sold a bunch of shirts at that last wedding. Nothing is sacred.
Remember The Caterie show next week, BR peeps:
Wow, you knew her too?