This was in the morning email from Dennis Fox and is worth a synthzone read

A fellow musician, sent me the following. Was he trying to tell me something? I already meet 11 out of these 30. No, I am not going to tell you which ones.


You know you're too old to play gigs when:


1. It becomes more important to find a place on stage for your fan than your amp

2. Your gig clothes make you look like George Burns out for a round of golf.

3. All your fans leave by 9:30 p.m.

4. All you want from groupies is a foot massage and back rub

5. You love taking the elevator because you can sing along with most of your playlist

6. Instead of a fifth member, your band wants to spring for a roadie

7. You lost the directions to the gig

8. You need your glasses to see the amp settings

9. You've thrown out your back jumping off the stage

10. You feel like hell before the gig even starts.

11. The waitress is your daughter

12. You stop the set because your ibuprofen fell behind the speakers

13. Most of your crowd just sways in their seats

14. You find your drink tokens from last month's gig in your guitar case

15. You refuse to play without earplugs

16. You ask the club owner if you can start at 8:30 instead of 9:30

17. You check the TV schedule before booking a gig

18. Your gig stool has a back

19. You're related to at least one member in the band

20.. You don't let any one sit in

21. You need a nap before the gig

22. After the third set, you bug the club owner to let you quit early.

23. During the breaks, you now go to the van to lay down

24. You prefer a music stand with a light

25. You don't recover until Tuesday afternoon

26. You hope the host's speech lasts forever.....

27. You buy amps considering their weight and not their tone or cool factor.

28. Feeling guilty looking at hot women at the bar because they're younger than your daughter.

29. You can remember seven different club names for the same location ..

30. You have a hazy memory of the days when you could work 10 gigs in 7 days
... and could physically do it.
Bebop

That cracks me up. Especially as I could identify with quite a few of those myself.

I guess I must be getting too old to play gigs .... but then the best thing about getting old is you just don't care that your getting too old so I'll keep on playing them.

No doubt a lot of us meet a number of those criteria ... but it's all about getting 'older' not 'old' ...
t.

You guys are just getting older.
I have already got old, 76 a month from today.
When you get to my age you will probably have the same attitude I now do.
SCREW IT : )
Bill the BEBOP

Like I always say, Bill, country ham is wrinkled, old and smells bad, but, around here, people dig the hell out of it!


Russ "hambone" Lay