Would you have taken this gig back in 1922?

Colm Chomicky · Post by **Colm Chomicky** » 11 Aug 2024 6:54 am

Obviously non-pedal but relevant to all working musicians. Wish I knew the rest of the story

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 12 Aug 2024 8:02 am

That "must leave town at once" bothers me.

Erv

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 12 Aug 2024 8:09 am

“experience not necessary.”

What a rag-tag show that must have been!

Fred Treece · Post by **Fred Treece** » 12 Aug 2024 9:07 am

It doesn’t say they want a steel guitar player.

Dave Hopping · Post by **Dave Hopping** » 12 Aug 2024 9:07 am

If I'd been born in 1900.

Maybe.

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 12 Aug 2024 11:18 am

Well, that's odd.

According to Google Maps, 1007 E. 8th, in KS, MO, is a vacant lot...

~Lee

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 12 Aug 2024 2:44 pm

Lee Baucum wrote:Well, that's odd.

According to Google Maps, 1007 E. 8th, in KS, MO, is a vacant lot...

~Lee

Probably not in 1922.

Emily Keene · Post by **Emily Keene** » 15 Aug 2024 3:43 pm

Erv Niehaus wrote:That "must leave town at once" bothers me.
Erv

I've played a lot of gigs where we needed to "take the money and run" before they changed their minds-or totaled up the band's bar tab.

Colm Chomicky · Post by **Colm Chomicky** » 17 Aug 2024 9:22 am

Lee Baucum wrote:Well, that's odd.

According to Google Maps, 1007 E. 8th, in KS, MO, is a vacant lot...

~Lee

That is correct today, but I can trace back when there was a boarding house there, by using this old address as search word in newspapers dot com. Rooms for rent. Old classified ads also specify there is a piano for common use.

Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 20 Aug 2024 3:00 pm

More information needed: like, is there a career path?

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 20 Aug 2024 3:23 pm

Lee Baucum wrote:

According to Google Maps, 1007 E. 8th, in KS, MO, is a vacant lot...

So is 12th Street and Vine

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 20 Aug 2024 4:26 pm

Earnest Bovine wrote:
Lee Baucum wrote:

According to Google Maps, 1007 E. 8th, in KS, MO, is a vacant lot...

So is 12th Street and Vine

And that one is much more attractive, and famous!

~Lee

Fred Treece · Post by **Fred Treece** » 20 Aug 2024 5:02 pm

Earnest Bovine wrote:
Lee Baucum wrote:

According to Google Maps, 1007 E. 8th, in KS, MO, is a vacant lot...

So is 12th Street and Vine

Technically true, but made for an interesting Google search.

Frank Nims · Post by **Frank Nims** » 11 Jan 2025 5:03 pm

Three members of the show dropped out for whatever reason - jail, marriage, fed up - and need to be replaced in time for the next show. Not at all uncommon in the Golden Age of Traveling Shows.

At least the show was still in business. Any memoir of show biz back in those days will have at least one account of a cast & crew being stranded in some small town with no money and no tickets home because the manager skeedaddled with all the assets and grabbed a milk train to someplace far away.

Mark Peters · Post by **Mark Peters** » 12 Jan 2025 6:28 am

I did some research on 12th St and Vine after visiting KC. We asked a cabbie (there were cabbies then) to take us to 12th and Vine after some drinking at 18th St. and Vine. He said there is no 12th St. and Vine. The area has been redeveloped. He took us to where it would have been.

Now I understand there is a street sign where it used to be. But here's the thing: 12th St. and Vine wasn't the happening spot. It was 18th St. and Vine, where we had been drinking in a jazz club. I read that Lieber and Stoller used 12th St. and Vine because it played better.

Some bands sing it 18th St. and Vine.

More than you wanted to know.

Craig Stock · Post by **Craig Stock** » 13 Jan 2025 5:35 am

Again, probably more info than needed, but an interesting read

https://worldafterwork.com/2019/05/27/i ... -and-vine/

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 20 Jan 2025 10:14 am

Band on the run, band on the run.