11:11 p.m. - 2005-06-18
a Yid Vicious wedding
Yid Vicious wedding tonight.
OMIGOD, having a blog is just so...I don't know! I used to wouldn't know what to do with myself after an experience, but now I sure the hell do! Blog it! You know, for posterity! For the two or three hapless souls who might happen upon this, my blog.
Anyway, we played a wedding tonight. It was very nearly out-of-doors, actually in a barn-like park-shelter type of thing that's made of wood and actually has pretty nice acoustics, such that the horns didn't feel they required amplification. The bride and groom are friends of the violinist and many of the guests are affiliated either with a local trapeze-dancing troupe or a local burlesque troupe or both. The thing that made tonight so different from other weddings we do was: at most weddings we play I haven't seen lots of the women in attendance and one or two of the men in advanced states of undress prior to the event. Or even during or after the event.
You see, I used to have--and this quickly becomes painful, so apologies if I break off in the middle, all emotional-like--as I say, I used to have a promising career as a burlesque drummer, making with the innuendo-rim-shots and the punchline-cymbals. I played a weekend with the Cherry Pop Tarts, and then, cruelly, I was replaced, shoved into obsolescence by the heartless verities of the burleque market. What did I do wrong? Were my rimshots not cutting enough? Did I not don the sleaziest of attire? (I wore Hagar slacks. HAGAR SLACKS!)
So, anyway, I was fired from this burlesque troupe, and tonight's wedding that we played had a lot of the troupe's members in attendance. I'm still not used to the sight of most of them out of their tart-make-up and bustiers, so it took me a while to place most of them as the performers whose ribald antics I'd enjoyed months before. When they're not bumping and grinding or trapezing, they seem like perfectly normal members of society, with their carpentry, medicine, and other careers, and they appear to enjoy dancing to the bulgars.
The food was good, the wine-a-flowing, and this was maybe the third or fourth YV gig in a row where we've had all seven members in attendance, which may be a record for this time of year. Fun! Tomorrow we play for several hundred junior high kids, whose reactions to our antics will be no doubt hilarious.
So, let it not be said that Yid Vicious isn't versatile: from stripper weddings to junior high music camps, Yid Vicious is the band to fit ALL your freylekh needs!
