Played a Triple

[Giles]

Last Saturday, I played two weddings and a club date and drove 200 miles in the process. I left my house at 11:30 AM, played from 1 to 4:30. Then, in the car, got to the next gig at 6:45, played from 7 to 11. In the car, next gig 12 to 2:30. Home at 3:30 AM. Same band for all three gigs. My chops were so shot, I only played this week when necesary while giving lessons. Anyone else have a day from hell like that lately?

[LBAjazz]

One Man's hell is another Man's heaven. You got paid, right?

[Monika]

You have posted to the wrong forum on this site.

[Keith Ridenhour]

Done a few doubles , never a triple with so much driving. I feel your pain. I've done loud singles which recked my chops for a few days. I find that I do my mouth stretches during the week between gigs more than I used to. They do some chop maintenence if mine are swollen. (The emb exercises in The ARt of Sax Book by Larry Teal.) K

[jazzbluescat]

Never done a triple, per se; did do three shows in one day for the circus.

[gary]

I direct two bands and play in three. A lot of the work is seasonable, meaning all the gig offers come in for the same time frames, so regularly I double or triple gigs on the same day in different locations with different groups. But nothing like your day. Dang!

I have, however, played two eight-hour gigs in two consecutive days. Man was that brutal! We had a third booked on the following day and the band mutinied, leaving the manager in some serious trouble with (true) an element of the Japanese mob.

[Subtone Sam]

I've done many doubles but no triples as far as I can remember.The hard part is to setup all the gear twice in case there is no soundcompany.Playing two gigs same night is no trouble,think the first gig as a warm-up! 8)

[saxboy]

I actually did 4 one day.
It was a Sunday. Had 2 Sevices in the AM(7 call, don't remember when it was done), a 2-6 Jazz gig, a 7-11 Club Dance Band Gig and was then paid $250.00 to drive around with some rich guy and his friends in his limo playing Soprano Love Songs until almost 3 AM.

That was a lot of years ago.

I had one even stranger but it was in the drinkin days and I can't remember what the dang gigs where but it was a day and a half straight with travel time for sleep. I did a Cerimony then Reception, another Cerimony(I think) and drove to a Guns and Roses Show at the Rose Bowl to Play all night for the G&R After Show Party till 3 or 4 AM, Drove 125 miles to the Docks to take a boat to Catalina for the Jazz Trax Jazz Concerts - sound Checked, ate, played and took the next boat home to do my Sunday night Club gig.

"Those where the days my friends, I'm Glad they Finally End..." ed.

Can we talk about hair color?
SAXBOY

[OnyxSax]

I've done more doubles than I care to recall...probably somewhere in the hundreds by my best guess. The toughest are the "zero-time" doubles, where you literally have three hours (or less) from the last note of the first gig, get all your gear broken down, travel, set up and be playing again.

I've had monkey wrenches like flat tires and, in one case, and accident happen between gigs, but we still got going on time.

I had a Baltimore / Willow Grove PA double and returned to Maryland afterwards, I got home shortly after sunrise. A D.C. to Philly double with three hours between gigs (we had two sets of equipment).

The hardest stretch I had was a Thursday, Friday, 2 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday and one on Monday. All were four hour gigs.

By December 2004, I will have logged my 2,000th gig with my current band (since 1989). In addition, I've probably played another 250 - 300 gigs as a sideman, or jazz combos, or solo piano gigs. Still fun, though.

[Morry]

By December 2004, I will have logged my 2,000th gig with my current band (since 1989).

Man, 133 gigs a year for a band is pretty darn good.

[OnyxSax]

It's not like that these days...we're in the 80s or 90s over the last few years, but in the beginning, we were cranking out over 140 times a year. Of course, that's a lot easier to do when you were 21 years old.

[Jeronimo]

I'm pretty new in the area of Geneva. But by coincidence, or some special alignment of the stars, I got a triple gig last saturday, after a week of not going out of the house ... (could you believe that, snow in May!)
Anyway, I played with my New Orleans band in Nyon, Switzerland, for a kind of market event, from 10 AM till 5 PM. Then to Geneve playing some kind of Dutch club event 7 PM till 10:30 PM. Then got driving crazy to the France side playing in a club with a DJ some Funk, Disco and House set till 1 AM. Got home at 2 AM. Crazy day ! I love it ! (just not too often, please...)
8)
No lips pain, but some pain in the throat, not something that a nice cup of tea could not fix.

Jeronimo :lol: