robertearle
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Re: USCHO Poster Poll: '19-'20
My favorite music related one is probably one night in maybe 1987 or so, I was at a club called Madame Wong's West in Brentwood/Santa Monica. Wong's West - a former funeral parlor - had a big room upstairs that could hold a couple hundred people and a couple smaller rooms downstairs. I was there as much to see a group playing downstairs (who I loved those days) called The Wild Cards - Latin tinged jump blues/funk-ish; one CD in 1990 - as the 'name' band upstairs, The Knack. At that point, the Knack had been big, then broke up, and were trying to get back to being big again.
You got 'upstairs' by climbing this wide, sweeping half-circle of a staircase. At the top of the stairs outside the big room was a dry bar, and I was standing at that bar watching this poor roadie for the Knack make trip after trip up those stairs hauling amps, guitars, etc etc. There was a *really* good looking blonde doing what she could to help, but mostly the load fell to this one guy. He finally finishes, and walks over to the dry bar, right next to me, and says to the bartender "Gimme a Miller." Then he looks back over his shoulder at the blonde and says "Hey, Sharona, you want a beer? Make that two Millers."
This was way before the world learned that Sharona was a real person, so the bartender and I recreate the airport scene from 'Casablanca': startled, we both look at the roadie, then look back at Sharona, then look at each other, then look back at the roadie. "Two Millers, coming up."
My favorite music related one is probably one night in maybe 1987 or so, I was at a club called Madame Wong's West in Brentwood/Santa Monica. Wong's West - a former funeral parlor - had a big room upstairs that could hold a couple hundred people and a couple smaller rooms downstairs. I was there as much to see a group playing downstairs (who I loved those days) called The Wild Cards - Latin tinged jump blues/funk-ish; one CD in 1990 - as the 'name' band upstairs, The Knack. At that point, the Knack had been big, then broke up, and were trying to get back to being big again.
You got 'upstairs' by climbing this wide, sweeping half-circle of a staircase. At the top of the stairs outside the big room was a dry bar, and I was standing at that bar watching this poor roadie for the Knack make trip after trip up those stairs hauling amps, guitars, etc etc. There was a *really* good looking blonde doing what she could to help, but mostly the load fell to this one guy. He finally finishes, and walks over to the dry bar, right next to me, and says to the bartender "Gimme a Miller." Then he looks back over his shoulder at the blonde and says "Hey, Sharona, you want a beer? Make that two Millers."
This was way before the world learned that Sharona was a real person, so the bartender and I recreate the airport scene from 'Casablanca': startled, we both look at the roadie, then look back at Sharona, then look at each other, then look back at the roadie. "Two Millers, coming up."
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, was quietly going crazy all the way up the mountain. Ultimately, good sense prevailed and she did not try to chase him after we got off the chair and then on the way down. 
