The Night Shift

[draglist]

Rock on, Cat Man! bp

[WildcatOne]

Just got a nice crisp 100 dollar bill in the mail from Doc! Life is good! I'm gonna send the package tomorrow when I get off work...I start tomorrow working for a surveying company...it's right here in my neighborhood. A regular job. Just what the doctor ordered. Will miracles never cease? WC1

[pro70z28]

Sounds like a "map" for success WC.
Sorry, been a long day. I just couldn't stop my finnerz' from typing' that.

Cangrats WC

[jim sanders]

happy it got to ya WC !! that bill came from John the Plumbers wallet not mine. congrats on the surveying gig !!!!

[Billy Mac]

I'm sure things will "measure" out in perfectly "calculated" increments, Cat......Good luck with it.
Dag GUM, it's an honor to call you my friend, John Bockleman!!!

[WildcatOne]

Thanks, y'all. A job right now is giong to help out around here to say the least...it is a tough job, field work, we run up till 3 PM out there, but the place we leave from is exactly one-half mile from my house, and we use a company truck with EZ-Tag for the Beltway, and they pay the gas...the folks there are nice and they visited with me for a while this morning before we left for the job, and Duane's supervisor said she was going to ask around and see if there are any jobs out there that I could take in an office...including theirs...very good people. Y'all may remember me mentioning Duane before. After I married Debby (for the last time) in '96, I learned I had a nephew through this marriage who lived on the North Side, had never gone to high school and was headed for trouble...I went and got him and pulled him out of the hood he lived in, made him get rid of his G-U-N, and brought him over to our house and enrolled him in a night school to get his GED. It took 4 1/2 months and I had to drag him by the horns with him kicking against me and duct-tape his mouth shut, had to kick his butt a few times, but he completed the dadgum course and they sent the diploma. He then had more going for him than anybody else in his family up on the North Side did. He keeps a card-sized copy that I laminated for him in his wallet. He also took some night college courses. He is not stupid, but Duane is a wild guy. He'll suddenly pull the most bone-headed stunts I ever saw and end up in jail for the weekend for it. But what he did do was he learned surveying and he learned it good. He's been employed as a surveyor ever since he got his GED. He's now their surveyor, a party chief...chief partier on weekends, too...but he knows this stuff. He called yesterday with this job for Kyle, but Kyle has been so sick lately he can't hardly breathe with his asthma and allergies and the air in Houston being so bad...so I offered to do it and he was delighted to have me along. He amazed me at his expertise and attention to detail, even with the sun beating down on him...I wear a big hat, longsleeves and sunscreen...I have to...I ain't Michael Jackson, but my skin can't get burned again like it has in the past, the doctor told me that...anyway, it is amazing how things fall into place if you just let 'em. Cheers, WC1

[Gator]

[WildcatOne]

Last night a scaled-down version of the WILDCATS played at 5th Street Cafe in Kemah. we didn't play outside for 2 reasons...one is that both guys in the rhythym section claimed I never said anything to them about the gig, which I talked to them twice about and they both agreed to do it, but when it came down to doing it, they both said I never talked to them about it...their names went on a little list of people I will never call again to play gigs with...so Tom Rodgers offered to come in and play bass with me and Kim...we took him up on the offer, and he played great. We played inside, as it was 85 degrees with 98% humidity and swarms of hungry mosquitos outside. It was a very good night. Jim Shortt showed up, reviewed our set and took pictures. L-R: Kim Van Zandt, Tom Rodgers, WildcatOne playing Tom's guitar behind the Draglist keyboard. They had just escorted 2 extremely intoxicated ladies outside after refusing to serve them when they crashed into the wall whilst trying to find the ladies' room, and the blonde crossed the centerline and knocked out the half-track timing cones...too bad; they were having a blast and were on a good run. But as in drag racing, if you touch the wall while making a pass, you're disqualified. They didn't argue with the rules and stumbled back onto the return road...Jim Shortt visited for a couple of hours and he talked about our set at the Seabrook Music Festival in 2003 when I got my face painted right before we went onstage for the headline show that Saturday night. He still refers to that set as the most inspired live rock show he ever saw, and I am humbled by those words, folks, because he has seen it all. But that night stood out over all others in my own memory as well. Hundreds of jumping, screaming people, the band blasting off to unimaginable heights of sonic ecstasy. I was lifted up. I'll never feel that again. so playing with Kim and having Jim Shortt there was very, very special. My name here comes from that band. Anyway, Life is good. WC1

[draglist]

That's great, John. Glad to have you posting about gigs again. Fantastic! Did the keyboard drop a tenth and gain 5 mph as promised? bp

[WildcatOne]

That keyboard is running like The Surfers' rail did in the '65 season, BP. I attribute its performance to being a Draglist hot rod. I've been playing 5, sometimes 6 nights a week lately, and it's like a merry-go-round. I absolutely loathe the guitar classes I'm giving at the College of the Mainland on Tuesday nights. I love being on the College's teaching roster, but the kids I'm teaching just don't give a damn and hate being there and they make no secret of that fact, so I'm just going through the motions with them. I really can't complain. I'm playing every Thursday night at the Cock-Eyed Seagull as either a backup or a host to the open-mic jam, Wednesdays I practice with the Whiskey Saints, and Friday and Saturday nights I'm playing gigs with Shakedown. Somewhere in there I have to get back with the Citykings, who are mad at me right now because I am not available on Thursday nights to practice with them...gonna have to make time for that and do it. The gig last night stood out, but most of them have been pretty much straight-ahead gigs without much to say about 'em...some of the biker gigs we play feature some pretty outrageous behavior from the crowd, which we welcome and encourage, but lately a lot of people just watch us play. I have noticed that we are seeing the same people show up just about everywhere we play now, which means we're getting a following. Lynn and Brandi are such smooth PR people, they go out into the crowd and hang out with everybody. I always fall back and go off by myself, and I usually meet some people I can hang out with and so forth, but I'm not a front-line personality by any stretch...Lynn and Brandi have that covered. It's all good. Cheers, WC1