Sounds kinda like Duran Duran playing the Midnight Rodeo in Amarillo a couple years back.........you KNOW your pop/rock career is dead when you have to play a gig at a cowboy bar.
That explains a lot. The first band I was in that actually got paid to perform was a top 40 cover band that catered to a lot of college events back around 1980-'81.
So we did all the Elvis C., Squeeze, Cars, real bubble gum dance music. Had a good following, full calender, decent $$.
Then we get THE CALL. Our guy asks if we can do some out of town dates if he books them and since it was summer we said sure.
Franklin La, Chackbay, Port Arthur...all the way to Houston and back.
EVERY gig, we pull up, set up, change, gel hair, straight leg leathers, skinny ties, wayfarers....
Nothing but ten gallon hats. The whole "tour". Never took a date west of Houma again.
