End Of The End
..........So the Monday after my resignation gig, I get a call at work from Gino. He tells me how Warno can't sleep...... He told him how he has a stack of contracts for gigs that he is committed to. Funny, if he has a stack of gigs that we are committed to, then why did I only have 6 on my calendar for the rest of the year. Whatever! He did tell Gino to tell me that I could play the next two weeks of gigs.....I thought for sure I was gonna get a couple of weeks off, and I wish I had.
The first of the two weekends, we played a wedding reception about an hour and a half from my house. The whole way there I was worried that I was gonna get screwed somehow. Maybe he would have had someone else at the gig and tell me that I was NOT needed after I had driven all the way there. I expressed these fears to Gino, but he thought I was over reacting a little. The load in was pretty easy. Warno had very little to say to me. I tried to talk to him, and he said a little, but you could tell he didn't really care much to be in the same room with me. Well, we got through that gig with no problems
The following weekend, my last gig, we played a reception in my hometown. When we got to the gig, I asked Warno if he had brought my money (he had owed me money for the last 3 gigs as well as this current one). He told me, "I didn't want to carry that much money on the road with me". So we get through the gig with no problems.......At the end of the night he wished me good luck and I told him thanks for everything. We agreed that Gino would pick up my cash ON Monday and I would go by there that night to pick it up.
Well, that following Monday, I went to gin's house. Gino handed me the envelope and it showed that I had been docked 200 greenbacks. He told Gino that at the point I resigned, I became a sideman. Even though 2 of those gigs were before I resigned. He even said that he had thought about not paying me anything at all. My first instinct was to go over to house and kick his ass. But after thinking about it, I decided that I should think of it as a price that I am paying to not ever have to deal with him gain. Oh well that's the story...........
The first of the two weekends, we played a wedding reception about an hour and a half from my house. The whole way there I was worried that I was gonna get screwed somehow. Maybe he would have had someone else at the gig and tell me that I was NOT needed after I had driven all the way there. I expressed these fears to Gino, but he thought I was over reacting a little. The load in was pretty easy. Warno had very little to say to me. I tried to talk to him, and he said a little, but you could tell he didn't really care much to be in the same room with me. Well, we got through that gig with no problems
The following weekend, my last gig, we played a reception in my hometown. When we got to the gig, I asked Warno if he had brought my money (he had owed me money for the last 3 gigs as well as this current one). He told me, "I didn't want to carry that much money on the road with me". So we get through the gig with no problems.......At the end of the night he wished me good luck and I told him thanks for everything. We agreed that Gino would pick up my cash ON Monday and I would go by there that night to pick it up.
Well, that following Monday, I went to gin's house. Gino handed me the envelope and it showed that I had been docked 200 greenbacks. He told Gino that at the point I resigned, I became a sideman. Even though 2 of those gigs were before I resigned. He even said that he had thought about not paying me anything at all. My first instinct was to go over to house and kick his ass. But after thinking about it, I decided that I should think of it as a price that I am paying to not ever have to deal with him gain. Oh well that's the story...........
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