The heck w playing gigs, where do I sign up for tech gig?
Back in the day everyone wanted to be IN the band not doing the lights or loading the van, everyone wanted to be in the play, not painting the sets or focusing the lights.
Silly me, thinking that doing the lighting (what I started out with) and setting up the band, and doing the sound, loading the van, eventually the truck, eventually the semi - along with building stuff, painting stuff, fixing stuff, - I'm the queen of all soldering irons, and the queen bitch painter too - getting there early to set up tables and chairs, staying late to put away the tables and chairs, and of course, sweeping the stage would lead somewhere. I did it in the beginning (early 70s) largely because I got ten dollars, a tee-shirt, all the beer I could drink and I could dress as close to a girl as I wanted, and oh yeah, meet some pretty twisted girls who were looking for something different.
