The Steel Guitar Forum

Back in the 40's when I was playing a juke joint in Mississippi I started making the closing pitch for the night. Some drunk came up and threw a quarter in the tip jar and insisted that we play "Steel Guitar Rag." My explaining that we were finished for the night didn't help, so I finally agreed to play it. (That was in the days when it cost a nickle to play the juke box.) We finished the song and I started to give the closing pitch again, and he walked up to the bandstand and shouted, "Wait a minute. I got four more times coming." I reached into the tip jar and gave him his quarter back. He wasn't happy, but we shut down anyway.

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Shaan... LOL good one guy !!

When I first came to Nashville in 82 the band made $10 each at Tootsies. The rest of the places on Broadway were paying $20. Now everybody pays $20, big change huh? I said a long time ago that not too far down the road everybody would play for tips only. If you can talk it up really good and be entertaining, you can make a days wages. Here's one more.

Don't be bashful. You're in Nashville!

"Please tip your waitress. Everyone loves a waitress with big tips!"

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Lee, from South Texas
Down On The Rio Grande

How about this way to fill a tip jar?
"Our Girl Singer Strips For Tips"

"BAND" Aid!

Bob

If musicians take their equipment into a bar and agree to play for tips, they are screwing themselves. Bar owners can only take advantage of you if you let them. When you agree to play for nothing, you are undercuting musicians who won't.

I was always true to my standards! When a club owner told me that he would pay me $15.00 for a job if I didn't tell the other musicians who were only getting $10.00, I agreed.

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