Reply #6: This isn't just about me but I've always thought it was funny. [View All]

[BlueJazz]

Years ago when the band I was in, was playing at a popular club in New York (city), we had a band member named John...who was an absolute Genius and VERY strange person. He had Perfect pitch, could sit down with an Album, write all the parts (guitar, bass, piano, sax, violins,trumpet..etc,etc...and this with only a pen and some staff paper...But to talk to him was like visiting the twilight zone. He truly live in another world...hell..another Universe!

Anyway..at the time John was very "Clean" (no drinking, drugs etc).....the rest of the band was..ah...shall we say..continually fucked up. (Hey..it was the 70's)

After the 4th night of playing at this club, the owner called us in to his office (everyone except John) and said:
"Um..you know, I'm a pretty liberal fellow and I understand that being in a band can sometimes lead you down the wrong path, such as drugs. I've been watching all of you and I like what I hear and I suspect that you are all fairly straight guys when it comes to drugs But I think we have a problem here. I talked to your Piano player (John) last night and frankly I wonder if he is going to be able to "carry-on" in this business much longer...Something just has to be done about his Drug problem"

LOL!..John was the only one who was straight!...Geez..