A first for me I think

[OHIOSTEVE]

Drove to my gig..... car thermometer reading 99 degrees. Got set up OUTSIDE on an enclosed stage painted all black.....NO ONE OUTSIDE .... NO ONE IN THE BAR..... 20 minutes in I am so dehydrated even chugging water that I was losing my voice..... only people are my wife and one of our friends. I told the bartender that they were wasting money paying me. Owner was there.....older woman. She said "honey that's dangerously hot. If you want to stop I will pay you part and reschedule." So I set up, played 20 minutes, and tore down.

 

[OHIOSTEVE]

Before anyone says it, I told her I would play as long as she wanted. She said that with the heat, she would be empty all day BUT if I wanted to keep playing I could but it was dangerously hot. I told her I was trying to protect her money.... She seemed to really appreciate that and booked the band.

 

[Tone deaf]

July 1986, I went to see Dylan and the Dead and Tom Petty at RFK in DC. The digital thermometer on the scoreboard read 97F for most of the show. I had on a pair of shorts and flip flops and sweated my ass off (I was also in great physical condition back then). Dylan performed wearing leather pants and a leather jacket. He didn't take off the jacket for the first set. I can't believe he survived.

 

[OHIOSTEVE]

July 1986, I went to see Dylan and the Dead and Tom Petty at RFK in DC. The digital thermometer on the scoreboard read 97F for most of the show. I had on a pair of shorts and flip flops and sweated my ass off (I was also in great physical condition back then). Dylan performed wearing leather pants and a leather jacket. He didn't take off the jacket for the first set. I can't believe he survived.

Had there been anyone there I would have kept playing....

 

[Tone deaf]

Had there been anyone there I would have kept playing....

You are a good guy and deferential to the owners. I would think that helps getting repeat biz.

 

[GunMonkeyINTL]

July 1986, I went to see Dylan and the Dead and Tom Petty at RFK in DC. The digital thermometer on the scoreboard read 97F for most of the show. I had on a pair of shorts and flip flops and sweated my ass off (I was also in great physical condition back then). Dylan performed wearing leather pants and a leather jacket. He didn't take off the jacket for the first set. I can't believe he survived.

Not buying it.

Hot days are a recent occurrence. If you’d kept it a ridiculous, but still maybe believable 79F, you could have saved the story.

Hell, everyone knows the polar bears were still alive, Miami was still above water, and we were entering a Aqua-Net ice age in 1986.

 

[OHIOSTEVE]

You are a good guy and deferential to the owners. I would think that helps getting repeat biz.

Thanks

 

[Uncle Vinnie]

Gig called on account of heat.

Bet the guitar neck was sweaty and slinky.

 

[sonar1]

Gig called on account of heat.

Bet the guitar neck was sweaty and slinky.

Mine got all skmutzie just from me reading the post!

 

[Uncle Vinnie]

Mine got all skmutzie just from me reading the post!

Skmutzie???!!!!

That's Yiddish, right?

 

[GunMonkeyINTL]

Skmutzie???!!!!

That's Yiddish, right?

Skmutzie is Estonian, derived from Yiddish Schmutzie.

 

[OHIOSTEVE]

Same venue last year. I played a gig with the duo. It was so hot my hat was streaming...NOT DRIPPING streaming sweat. Place was busy so we kept at it.... today they even sent bartenders home.

 

[Tone deaf]

I took the kids out to our favorite dive for lunch. This is a place where for the Super Bowl, you need to order your wings (to go) several weeks in advance. They sell over 50k wings on Super Bowl Sunday. The line goes down the street.

There were three occupied outdoor tables. I over tipped. I hope this place stays in business. I know of a handful of other joints in town that will not reopen.

 

[sonar1]

Same venue last year. I played a gig with the duo. It was so hot my hat was streaming...NOT DRIPPING streaming sweat. Place was busy so we kept at it.... today they even sent bartenders home.

I had a fan for my tube amps. As the afternoons went on, it always got turned more toward ME!

 

[OHIOSTEVE]

I had a fan for my tube amps. As the afternoons went on, it always got turned more toward ME!

Had a big wind tunnel fan on me...... like a huge hair dryer lol. It was brutal.

 

[CRobbins]

When your hot, your hot.

 

[sonar1]

Had a big wind tunnel fan on me...... like a huge hair dryer lol. It was brutal.

Rode across Utah on my motorcycle once. It was just like that!
Comfortable at about 80 mph. But boy, did I get dehydrated!

 

[OHIOSTEVE]

It was odd to be honest...... believe it or not my fat ass used to play American Legion baseball. I played third base. Day like today, guy hit a little dribbler down the line.....I bent to pick it up....woke up in the ER. Heat exhaustion, near stroke. Doc said for the rest of my life I would have issues with the heat. ... He was right.

 

[redcoats1976]

worked 4 12 hour shifts in a central florida warehouse last week.no a/c.we do have fans but they dont help much.mandatory face masks suck...

 

[NRBQ]

Quit yer bitchin, I once had to play a gig in a vat of liquid hot magma, the dressing room was just another area of hot liquid magma and there were brown M&M's, which totally violated the rules of the F'n charter. One guy thought it was a G G Allen gig and started flinging monkey feces in pre prepared buckets, WTF? Final to add injury to insult, after the gig was over and I was in the green room (which isn't even green) all my fingers and toes fell off from the heat, and that's not even mentioning the beer, dog piss. You don't know how good you have it.