{"id":334,"date":"2007-05-25T13:08:12","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T21:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/25\/gig-horror-stories\/"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:10:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:10:58","slug":"gig-horror-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/25\/gig-horror-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"gig horror stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Doublebassist Jason Heath has a great blog<\/a>, and part of what makes it great are his stories from the front lines of freelancing – here is a great story about the demise of his car:<\/p>\n

This is the worst gig story ever. <\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve told a lot of gig stories on this blog.<\/span> <\/span>Some of them are humorous, some are annoying or cringe-worthy, but none even come close to this one. <\/span>This is the sort of surreal tale that you might see in the movies, but it actually happened to me.<\/p>\n

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Ever since high school, I had driven old hand-me-down cars from my parents.<\/span> <\/span>Typically, these were decent cars with a lot of mileage on them (my dad worked 65 miles out of town at the time), and I drove them until they started to fall apart. At that point they were passed along to my little brother (who would have wrecked them anyway), and I got the next one in line.<\/p>\n

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This pattern continued through college and beyond into the first few years of my freelance career.<\/span> <\/span>As I got on more solid financial footing in my career I knew it would soon be time for a new car of my own. <\/span>The ever increasing odometer on my hand-me-down Subaru (200,000 miles, 210,000, 220,000\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6..) made me see the writing on the wall, and I knew I would be paying a visit to a dealership soon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Doublebassist Jason Heath has a great blog, and part of what makes it great are his stories from the front lines of freelancing – here is a great story about the demise of his car:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[3660],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-viola"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-5o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1445,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/18\/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-gig\/","url_meta":{"origin":334,"position":0},"title":"a funny thing happened on the way to the gig","author":"Charles Noble","date":"November 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This is something that one doesn't often run into in the course of being an active freelance musician - raging wildfires on the way to a concert! 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