I wonder....

matty42

As I spent my day flipping burgers and dunking fries, I wondered to myself, "Would Django ever have had to work at Dairy Queen?". I would most certainly imagine not though. Of course, he was and still is Django, and I am but a mere mortal.

swing68

Probably not - but I seem to remember from Dregni's biog that in the lean times Django, Joseph and cousin Ninine Vees would go back to selling scrap metal.

Keep on keeping on, though, bud - one of the great things about this music is how it can take us (mortals all) to another, better place.

Evidence for the court (ignore the 15 second advert at the start :roll: ):

Lango-Django

As a gyspy AND a Frenchman, Django would have rather died than work at a fastfood joint.

However, if he didn't have a gig, he might've been willing to drive his wife to her afternoon shift at the DQ...

...as long as it didn't interrupt his billiards game...

Will

PS In university, I had a young history prof from the north of England, who told us a John Lennon story I'd never heard anywhere else...

(Who knows, it may even be true?)

Anyway, according to this story, a young pre-fame Lennon was so desperate for money that he actually accepted a non-musical gig: making sandwiches for a local caterer.

To express his disdain for the bourgeois fools who would be eating those sandwiches, and also protest the indignity of a musical genius being forced into such a lowly work, Lennon's solution was simple and ingenious. He simply spit into each and every sandwich before closing it.

True? or not? You'll have to decide.

Anyway, Matty, please don't do this at your DQ gig!

Passacaglia

Talking Heads Frontman David Byrne used to flip burgers about a block from my former digs in Providence, RI. This was Smith Hill - the area my acting teacher used to proclaim, in his best bad Shakespearean sweep, "ah, so this is the place where poor people dwell."

I once lived on a 25# wheel of cheddar cheese. Discovered in the Trinity Rep prop room, a bona fide wheel, several years old. That and rice, my cat had to suck it up as well. :evil: Building outdoor Japanese gardens in the Providence winter...catering...all sucked.

No shame in labor, friend. Though I'd call it a shame, our lack of a true national arts culture - a National Theatre, National Symphony, etc. If a socialist and Edmund Burke can agree on the need for a nation's wealth to be measured, in part, by how it treats its artists...well. But that's another story. 8)

anthon_74

All through my 20's I worked in the service industry - Waiter;Valet;busser; etc...

then one day I realized that I could take those hours and hours I spent alone practicing my guitar and turn them into a thriving guitar teaching practice.

If you can work with kids, offer to drive to people's houses to teach their kids (ages 8 and above) how to play the guitar. If you don't know how to get started, but are interested, let me know and I'll send you some info about where you can find students. If you need a curriculum, contact me and I'll send you my book. Teaching is not that hard if you have a curriculum. And you can make 5X what you make in fast food and work much less.

Good luck,
Anthony

jlander9

We all gotta do what we gotta do, school, work, kids. When you truly got the bug, life revolves around the music. If Django did flip burgers you can bet he would be playing his guitar during every break he had................nah he wouldn't be flipping burgers, He's Django! :P