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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Speaking about all this live music, this entertainment. Somebody sent
me over the holiday, and again the email address is
Vinnie Penn at SBC Global dot net. On X it's
at Vinnie pen. There's a million ways to get in
touch with folks nowadays. This probably even came through Facebook.
I don't really recall. And our phone number here for
our giveaway coming up too is eight four four nine
(00:22):
sixty fourteen ten. He sends it, he goes, get a
load of that. Oh all he wrote was get a
load of this. I think it was just a listener
of the show. I don't I don't quite recall, because
I did get taken by what he had sent me.
It was a receipt at a restaurant. It just had
a nice meal. It was bill, the bill at at
a restaurant, and you know he screenshot it because it
(00:46):
had tip, you know, and the tip that he had
put down generous gentleman, much like myself, i'd like to think.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
And then under tip it said live music.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Tip, and then you know there was a slock for
him to Okay, I guess we're all footing the bill
now for the bands that you provide us with tonight,
the live entertainment you chose to have. Maybe it's the
reason I'm here. Maybe it annoyed me. Maybe it's not
(01:19):
the reason I'm here. He couldn't believe it. He tipped too. Now,
I want to know how you feel about this? Eight four, four, nine,
sixty fourteen ten is the number?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Do you want?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
At a You're having a bite to eat? The Mediums
are playing in the corner, and I love my boys,
you know insert whoever here? Uh, I can't say Derek
and the fun Bags. They don't need it, but they
are great. And I don't know do you eat at
of Derek in a Funbag concert?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I mean live music? Tip?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
How do we feel about this? He was clearly ticked
by this. Although he did tip, I'd be like, oh,
so two, I'm tipping twice. I'm tipping who brought me
my food and she's supposed to split it with a
bus boy? You know, you know, I got to hope
she's going to do that. And now I'm tipping for
(02:17):
the live music. Are you guys down for that? I'm
not necessarily the tone of my voice. You're you're probably
deducing that I am, but I've got a long history
of with restaurateurs, you know, bar owners and how they
treat the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Some are great.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Some are like, look, I'm paying you X amount of dollars.
You're not gonna have to chase me when you're done
from stand up comedy, you know, because it does a
you know, entertainment to bands. Some are like, nobody showed,
that's not on you. Here's what I pay you, and
maybe I just don't have you back again. Others there's
a piece of the door. It's an ugly it's an
(03:02):
ugly world.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
To live in.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
A lot of people underestimated because they just think, isn't
that great? Everybody loved you, and it's like, no, it's stressful.
There's sound checks, is lugging in equipment. Some if it's
just a pianist, because I'm thinking of one place where
it's like it's always nice when the pianist is there.
You never know when he's going to be or not.
(03:26):
Would I want to? And he's got his own tip
bowl that I know is going directly to him. I
don't know if yours is going to When did restaurants
decide to start putting in live music tip? And why
am I footing the bill for the entertainment you decided
we needed. Now I'm probably sounding like I'm coming across
(03:47):
as a cheap scale. I don't know what I do
in the position. I've been the guy in the band
and doing the comedy. I've chased the managers who've disappeared.
One guy disappeared once, and my bassist.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
He just.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
We wished the owner of the club well, and within
a few hours our bassis returned with our money and
bloodied knuckles.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
True story.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I don't know how i'd react to that, because I
support all local music.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
But I mean I tip jar it.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I don't know if I wanted in my bill, and
I don't know that I go to a restaurant for
the Usually i'm surprised to discover somebody's there.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
It's always pleasant, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
A couple of times I've been out to eat and
a little acoustic duo will take it and you get
so excited, you're cheering, and you start following them, and
if there's a tip jar, you do it. And I
think it's presumptuous of the restaurant to be like, right, oh, Jim,
I thought you were head of You were making faces
that implied to me you're eating you wrong.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, no, yeah, I'm not paying for them, and I
know it's tough. I want it every way right now,
I didn't book them. Would you put the zero and
the slash through the zero? I'd put applause. I would
applause appreciation your decision. You made the call.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
They shouldn't have tried Zeppelin. I'm trying to too far.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, you know, I appreciate the fact that restaurateurs right now,
it ain't easy, man, they're built.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
But you know what, Jim, I die down a lot. Well,
you do too.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I shouldn't put it that way. But the dating machine
over here, who's just done with My god, they got
to be the nicest. The prices are sinking up when
you go to an you know, I'm not trying to
be a smart ass, but when you go out of
it with your wife, even on date night, you probably
(05:58):
got a favorite joint. This and it's not like the
high end play most talked about place in town, this
and that, which you're gonna Seriously, your CHARCOOTERI is forty
eight dollars? Does it come with unicorn balls? Deep fried
unicorn balls? Why is your charcoutery forty eight dollars. And
(06:20):
that's what I feel. This is it's you foot the
bill for the live entertainment, and I do I have
I piss. PTSD is not a term asould really throw,
but I just have those memories of, oh, it was
such a horrible feeling of didn't draw that well, It
(06:44):
show didn't go that well. Sometimes it's even show didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Go that well, it's like, how about I get a
lot of guys can be real dochies.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Man. I remember one guy being like, I'm not paying
for that, and you're just like, look, I went up there.
I did the best I could. Like, that wasn't really
in our agreement that you had the option to decide
you weren't going to. And I'm not a confrontational guy,
so I just said they're like you're not no, So
I just left, like I'm never working with that guy again.
And he came back a couple of years later and
(07:13):
I drove the price up accordingly.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
How do you all feel? What would you do if.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
You're you're out, you're with your lady, you're with your guy,
You're a lady with your lady, you're a guy with
your guy. I could give a crap about any of
that stuff. You're having a nice meal and you're like, oh,
this is an acoustic guitarist that Harry Nilson is outstanding
that he's covering there, and you looked at your bill
(07:41):
and you're just like a tip. I mean two hundred
and twenty dollars bill for the two of us to
split appetizers and have eggnog martinis. That's the new hot
one out eighteen dollars a pop, twenty two dollars a pop.
(08:01):
All right, So what should I leave for it?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Tip? Okay? What is it?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Music? Tip? I'm tipping? I'm I suppose as I see
I do. I'm all over the road. The more I
talk it out and talk out loud too, it's almost
like the restaurant is asking like, do you support local music?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Are we all in this? No, that's the least I don't.
I'm not buying that one.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Brother, you know, are we all going to support these
guys and their next What if their deal is you
play for tips?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
They should announce it. Yeah they should.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I would say that would be because I've lived in
that world, tim I lived in that world a long time. Uh.
I would say, that's the if you're gonna tell me,
it's just like we split the door one, we're not
going to be able to gauge the door. Toads came
up with a very Toad's Place celebrating fifty years where
the Legends play. I played there, I opened for the
(09:01):
fun backs. But nonetheless, they gave you your tickets, so you
got your own tickets to sell, so they counted them
up and they're like, these are your people. So at
least they came up with it, because otherwise it's like, oh,
we're gonna split the door. I got no way of
knowing how many people came in here. It's an ugly
(09:23):
world to inhabit, and seeing this lie, Okay, here's your
what is your tip for the meal?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Plus?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Aren't you getting asked for tips everywhere you go nowadays?
Everywhere like some of the craziest places, like why would
I give you a tip for what you've just done
for me?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Right here?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And I don't want to come across because I'm usually
a chump, and now it's just tip, like seriously, and
you've got it clumsily in front of them. We're old now,
so we're squinting. Where's there you got? And you got
to ask the barista, where's the row? Ivan go all
the way down to zero enter because there's no reason
(10:01):
for me to tip you, especially on my card. And
you've got a jar right here where I can throw
a dollar into it for the two seconds it took
you to grab me that cake pop, you get a
tip for that? But age four four n fourteen ten
live music tips in addition to tipping your server, how
(10:23):
do we feel about these? Are restaurateurs just cutting more
corners or just trying to keep their doors open? Give
us a call live music tip? Yay or nay?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
I go a nay. But I had a different, a
different story. I on around rainy Sunday, my wife and
I trying to find something to do, went over to
the Amity Bowl they know a bowl a few games
and the guy rang us up and oh yeah, you're
in lane whatever and turns the thing around and it
asked for a tip.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
I'm like, think I just punched our name in the
computer or punched our up in the computer and gave
us some shoes and told us what late, And it said,
so what do you want to tip?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
So the tip would have been for him.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I just know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah, you know, but even.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
There, it's perplexing where it is. There should just be
a tip jar right there. I think that this is
uh this.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
These are credit card companies putting this down in addition
to the business owners, because just have a tip jar
out there. If I want to duke this guy my
two dollars change, I will if I had nice conversation
with me.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Don't make me. Don't make me punch in a zero
in front of him. I'm gonna feel bad.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yeah, you know that went away a long time ago.
I got no problem itting zero.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Good job, I mean, I appreciate the story too. Thanks
for calling, all.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Right, but take care.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
See you
Speaking about all this live music, this entertainment. Somebody sent
me over the holiday, and again the email address is
Vinnie Penn at SBC Global dot net. On X it's
at Vinnie pen. There's a million ways to get in
touch with folks nowadays. This probably even came through Facebook.
I don't really recall. And our phone number here for
our giveaway coming up too is eight four four nine
(00:22):
sixty fourteen ten. He sends it, he goes, get a
load of that. Oh all he wrote was get a
load of this. I think it was just a listener
of the show. I don't I don't quite recall, because
I did get taken by what he had sent me.
It was a receipt at a restaurant. It just had
a nice meal. It was bill, the bill at at
a restaurant, and you know he screenshot it because it
(00:46):
had tip, you know, and the tip that he had
put down generous gentleman, much like myself, i'd like to think.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
And then under tip it said live music.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Tip, and then you know there was a slock for
him to Okay, I guess we're all footing the bill
now for the bands that you provide us with tonight,
the live entertainment you chose to have. Maybe it's the
reason I'm here. Maybe it annoyed me. Maybe it's not
(01:19):
the reason I'm here. He couldn't believe it. He tipped too. Now,
I want to know how you feel about this? Eight four, four, nine,
sixty fourteen ten is the number?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Do you want?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
At a You're having a bite to eat? The Mediums
are playing in the corner, and I love my boys,
you know insert whoever here? Uh, I can't say Derek
and the fun Bags. They don't need it, but they
are great. And I don't know do you eat at
of Derek in a Funbag concert?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I mean live music? Tip?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
How do we feel about this? He was clearly ticked
by this. Although he did tip, I'd be like, oh,
so two, I'm tipping twice. I'm tipping who brought me
my food and she's supposed to split it with a
bus boy? You know, you know, I got to hope
she's going to do that. And now I'm tipping for
(02:17):
the live music. Are you guys down for that? I'm
not necessarily the tone of my voice. You're you're probably
deducing that I am, but I've got a long history
of with restaurateurs, you know, bar owners and how they
treat the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Some are great.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Some are like, look, I'm paying you X amount of dollars.
You're not gonna have to chase me when you're done
from stand up comedy, you know, because it does a
you know, entertainment to bands. Some are like, nobody showed,
that's not on you. Here's what I pay you, and
maybe I just don't have you back again. Others there's
a piece of the door. It's an ugly it's an
(03:02):
ugly world.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
To live in.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
A lot of people underestimated because they just think, isn't
that great? Everybody loved you, and it's like, no, it's stressful.
There's sound checks, is lugging in equipment. Some if it's
just a pianist, because I'm thinking of one place where
it's like it's always nice when the pianist is there.
You never know when he's going to be or not.
(03:26):
Would I want to? And he's got his own tip
bowl that I know is going directly to him. I
don't know if yours is going to When did restaurants
decide to start putting in live music tip? And why
am I footing the bill for the entertainment you decided
we needed. Now I'm probably sounding like I'm coming across
(03:47):
as a cheap scale. I don't know what I do
in the position. I've been the guy in the band
and doing the comedy. I've chased the managers who've disappeared.
One guy disappeared once, and my bassist.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
He just.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
We wished the owner of the club well, and within
a few hours our bassis returned with our money and
bloodied knuckles.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
True story.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I don't know how i'd react to that, because I
support all local music.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
But I mean I tip jar it.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I don't know if I wanted in my bill, and
I don't know that I go to a restaurant for
the Usually i'm surprised to discover somebody's there.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
It's always pleasant, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
A couple of times I've been out to eat and
a little acoustic duo will take it and you get
so excited, you're cheering, and you start following them, and
if there's a tip jar, you do it. And I
think it's presumptuous of the restaurant to be like, right, oh, Jim,
I thought you were head of You were making faces
that implied to me you're eating you wrong.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, no, yeah, I'm not paying for them, and I
know it's tough. I want it every way right now,
I didn't book them. Would you put the zero and
the slash through the zero? I'd put applause. I would
applause appreciation your decision. You made the call.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
They shouldn't have tried Zeppelin. I'm trying to too far.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, you know, I appreciate the fact that restaurateurs right now,
it ain't easy, man, they're built.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
But you know what, Jim, I die down a lot. Well,
you do too.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I shouldn't put it that way. But the dating machine
over here, who's just done with My god, they got
to be the nicest. The prices are sinking up when
you go to an you know, I'm not trying to
be a smart ass, but when you go out of
it with your wife, even on date night, you probably
(05:58):
got a favorite joint. This and it's not like the
high end play most talked about place in town, this
and that, which you're gonna Seriously, your CHARCOOTERI is forty
eight dollars? Does it come with unicorn balls? Deep fried
unicorn balls? Why is your charcoutery forty eight dollars. And
(06:20):
that's what I feel. This is it's you foot the
bill for the live entertainment, and I do I have
I piss. PTSD is not a term asould really throw,
but I just have those memories of, oh, it was
such a horrible feeling of didn't draw that well, It
(06:44):
show didn't go that well. Sometimes it's even show didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Go that well, it's like, how about I get a
lot of guys can be real dochies.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Man. I remember one guy being like, I'm not paying
for that, and you're just like, look, I went up there.
I did the best I could. Like, that wasn't really
in our agreement that you had the option to decide
you weren't going to. And I'm not a confrontational guy,
so I just said they're like you're not no, So
I just left, like I'm never working with that guy again.
And he came back a couple of years later and
(07:13):
I drove the price up accordingly.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
How do you all feel? What would you do if.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
You're you're out, you're with your lady, you're with your guy,
You're a lady with your lady, you're a guy with
your guy. I could give a crap about any of
that stuff. You're having a nice meal and you're like, oh,
this is an acoustic guitarist that Harry Nilson is outstanding
that he's covering there, and you looked at your bill
(07:41):
and you're just like a tip. I mean two hundred
and twenty dollars bill for the two of us to
split appetizers and have eggnog martinis. That's the new hot
one out eighteen dollars a pop, twenty two dollars a pop.
(08:01):
All right, So what should I leave for it?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Tip? Okay? What is it?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Music? Tip? I'm tipping? I'm I suppose as I see
I do. I'm all over the road. The more I
talk it out and talk out loud too, it's almost
like the restaurant is asking like, do you support local music?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Are we all in this? No, that's the least I don't.
I'm not buying that one.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Brother, you know, are we all going to support these
guys and their next What if their deal is you
play for tips?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
They should announce it. Yeah they should.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I would say that would be because I've lived in
that world, tim I lived in that world a long time. Uh.
I would say, that's the if you're gonna tell me,
it's just like we split the door one, we're not
going to be able to gauge the door. Toads came
up with a very Toad's Place celebrating fifty years where
the Legends play. I played there, I opened for the
(09:01):
fun backs. But nonetheless, they gave you your tickets, so you
got your own tickets to sell, so they counted them
up and they're like, these are your people. So at
least they came up with it, because otherwise it's like, oh,
we're gonna split the door. I got no way of
knowing how many people came in here. It's an ugly
(09:23):
world to inhabit, and seeing this lie, Okay, here's your
what is your tip for the meal?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Plus?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Aren't you getting asked for tips everywhere you go nowadays?
Everywhere like some of the craziest places, like why would
I give you a tip for what you've just done
for me?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Right here?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And I don't want to come across because I'm usually
a chump, and now it's just tip, like seriously, and
you've got it clumsily in front of them. We're old now,
so we're squinting. Where's there you got? And you got
to ask the barista, where's the row? Ivan go all
the way down to zero enter because there's no reason
(10:01):
for me to tip you, especially on my card. And
you've got a jar right here where I can throw
a dollar into it for the two seconds it took
you to grab me that cake pop, you get a
tip for that? But age four four n fourteen ten
live music tips in addition to tipping your server, how
(10:23):
do we feel about these? Are restaurateurs just cutting more
corners or just trying to keep their doors open? Give
us a call live music tip? Yay or nay?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
I go a nay. But I had a different, a
different story. I on around rainy Sunday, my wife and
I trying to find something to do, went over to
the Amity Bowl they know a bowl a few games
and the guy rang us up and oh yeah, you're
in lane whatever and turns the thing around and it
asked for a tip.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
I'm like, think I just punched our name in the
computer or punched our up in the computer and gave
us some shoes and told us what late, And it said,
so what do you want to tip?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
So the tip would have been for him.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I just know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah, you know, but even.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
There, it's perplexing where it is. There should just be
a tip jar right there. I think that this is
uh this.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
These are credit card companies putting this down in addition
to the business owners, because just have a tip jar
out there. If I want to duke this guy my
two dollars change, I will if I had nice conversation
with me.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Don't make me. Don't make me punch in a zero
in front of him. I'm gonna feel bad.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yeah, you know that went away a long time ago.
I got no problem itting zero.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Good job, I mean, I appreciate the story too. Thanks
for calling, all.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Right, but take care.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
See you
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