RB Rival asked for some tales from being on the road with bands and bikes, so here goes. This is one of the more tame ones. It is not for the easily embarrassed or offended. You have been warned.
I am in a band with my 2 sons, now aged 28 and 26, but this tale is from when we first started to do gigs 15 or so years ago. Now mind you we play pirate music, never mind what that is just now, leave it to say that gigs usually involve people dressed like pirates, drinking as much rum as then can in the time frame, and looking to recreate the most sordid type of merriment possible , as tribute to pirates past ( ie: Blackbeard, etc etc). This is back when the boys were 13 and 11, and technically not even allowed in the club we were playing at. OK, the stage is mostly set. Our band , The Brigands has a unique band symbol, actually a tattoo that all band members have ( never mind who tattooed 13 and 11 year olds). We also had temporary tattoos made for fans, and we hand them out at the gigs. So we are playing now our second set, and as expected, most pirates are either all hammered or fast on the way there. All of a sudden these 2 girls come from out of the crowd of pirate dancers with their tops and bras off, and the band temporary tattoos over their nipples. And they are dancing away, completely oblivious to the 2 young boys on stage, playing the music they are dancing to. But.. Oh yes! The 2 young boys in question are totally aware of THEM! Eyes glued to these 2 girls and the bouncing boobies, both of the boys are dropping chords, missing rests, loosing the beats and just everything you would expect of 2 minors in that situation. If they didn't have the guitar and mandolin strapped to their bodies, they would have crashed to the ground , as their hands were now so far removed from playing music it's not funny. I am giving these two girls the stink eye, giving my sons the stink eye, but no avail. Now it gets better!
We travel with several 1/2 scale black powder cannons, which we do demonstrations with, or in this case, since we can;t fire the guns in the club, go onstage in front of us, as stage props and decorations. One of these basically topless ladies is also wearing a skirt! She proceeds to straddle one of the bronze deck guns, a leg on either side, and basically ride that sucker for all she is worth. Yes, Ride Sally, Ride, indeed. And, after a minute or two it is apparent that this topless girl is.... without undergarments too. And is getting my cannon all messy. And the boys are staring even harder and now the resulting male reaction is very, very apparent in both of them. We finish the tune, and I called an early break. The boys disappeared, but I can guess where they went, but will not admit to, even to today.
And so ends the tale of the Cannon. Which by the way I had to clean off the next day.
I am in a band with my 2 sons, now aged 28 and 26, but this tale is from when we first started to do gigs 15 or so years ago. Now mind you we play pirate music, never mind what that is just now, leave it to say that gigs usually involve people dressed like pirates, drinking as much rum as then can in the time frame, and looking to recreate the most sordid type of merriment possible , as tribute to pirates past ( ie: Blackbeard, etc etc). This is back when the boys were 13 and 11, and technically not even allowed in the club we were playing at. OK, the stage is mostly set. Our band , The Brigands has a unique band symbol, actually a tattoo that all band members have ( never mind who tattooed 13 and 11 year olds). We also had temporary tattoos made for fans, and we hand them out at the gigs. So we are playing now our second set, and as expected, most pirates are either all hammered or fast on the way there. All of a sudden these 2 girls come from out of the crowd of pirate dancers with their tops and bras off, and the band temporary tattoos over their nipples. And they are dancing away, completely oblivious to the 2 young boys on stage, playing the music they are dancing to. But.. Oh yes! The 2 young boys in question are totally aware of THEM! Eyes glued to these 2 girls and the bouncing boobies, both of the boys are dropping chords, missing rests, loosing the beats and just everything you would expect of 2 minors in that situation. If they didn't have the guitar and mandolin strapped to their bodies, they would have crashed to the ground , as their hands were now so far removed from playing music it's not funny. I am giving these two girls the stink eye, giving my sons the stink eye, but no avail. Now it gets better!
We travel with several 1/2 scale black powder cannons, which we do demonstrations with, or in this case, since we can;t fire the guns in the club, go onstage in front of us, as stage props and decorations. One of these basically topless ladies is also wearing a skirt! She proceeds to straddle one of the bronze deck guns, a leg on either side, and basically ride that sucker for all she is worth. Yes, Ride Sally, Ride, indeed. And, after a minute or two it is apparent that this topless girl is.... without undergarments too. And is getting my cannon all messy. And the boys are staring even harder and now the resulting male reaction is very, very apparent in both of them. We finish the tune, and I called an early break. The boys disappeared, but I can guess where they went, but will not admit to, even to today.
And so ends the tale of the Cannon. Which by the way I had to clean off the next day.
