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...only about 10% of my profession is making music. The rest is trying to get to the gig and make the gig happen...
...Saying gig is just so cool...
...That was actually our manager's idea. At the time, he was the guy who sold the merchandise at the shows, and he used to complain that at every gig someone would come up to him and ask him, "Which album is the swing album?" So he had this idea to take all the swing tunes of the other three records and put them onto one, so we did that, and then added four new songs--one of which was "Zoot Suit Riot." And we actually put that out ourselves--this was before we got signed, and the whole swing...
...wanted to go and see her, but I had a gig to go to at 5 p.m., so I couldn't," he said. "I would have given my ticket away to someone--because I am sure that someone would have wanted it--but I just didn't have the chance...
With good reason. The man has seen capitalism from all sides. His first job at IBM was selling mainframe computers to banks in Mississippi. He was so good he graduated to a big-picure gig in IBM's finance-industry division. But, entrepreneurial at heart, he quit to start a company that bought, sold and leased used IBM equipment. The company was soon taken over by Cook Industries, a conglomerate headquartered in Memphis, Tenn., that had interests in everything from hardwood floors to termite-terminating. "Bark" ran the data-processing operation for the entire enterprise...