Captain Straightman

Captain Straightman

Normie Rowe, slight return

7:13 PM, 4/8/2006 .. 1 comments .. Link

Got an email from my dad, Colonel Straightman today, explaining how his lighting gig for Normie Rowe came about. Over to you, Colonel.

The way I got in to the dizzy glam. world of showbiz was that a friend of mine, a session bassist, had been hired for Normie's Gippsland tour, and he asked me if I wanted to come along. There was no payment for me, but the promoter was happy to pay the motel costs, and he provided a car for us to drive there from Melb. Normie's motel was four-star, the one for the band was one-star, or less. I was nominally a roady, but Normie asked me if I would do the lights. " Just give me whatever you like for upbeat songs, and a red spot for ballads." "Erm, right, boss" The great thing about country tours is that the punters are starved for entertainment, and fairly easily pleased, and easily amused. After a few songs, Norm would introduce the band,(stop me if I have told you this anecdote before) and point at me and say "this is my lighting man, Alec, Alec Trician."

To my amazement, this lame pun always got a great reaction, people were guffawing heartily. But Norm was a true pro, and sweated and put everything into his performance. After this fleeting brush with lighting-guy fame, my gigphone became silent, and has remained so. Norm never writes, never calls, but that's showbiz.

That's all for now. I'll be back on the weekend with my first Sunbury Nation post. It's gonna be boss. Loving the comments, and for anyone having trouble finding the download link, it's at the bottom of the tracklisting rant. Might see about making that a bit easier henceforth.

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Col Light aka Alec Trician

10:05 AM, 6/12/2006 .. Posted by Normie Rowe
Hi Capn, permission to come aboard? Well I don\'t know when that tour was, that I might\'ve had 4 star accom in country Vic, but I think the difference between Vic country 5 and 1 star accom isn\'t much. As for the gag(?) I was also astonished that people would laugh, but the Col was a little off the mark when he gave the impression that only Vic country audiences would larf at a wet gag like that. In fact even the most sophisticated audiences in Melbourne, Sydney and indeed in some of the places I played over seas let go more than a giggle. Anyway, that gag has moved aside for many more just as wet gags since. It seems audiences will laugh at all sorts of dumb things if delivered right. Besides with some of the morbid ballads I had as hits that I still have to deliver, one needs some sort of levity. LIGHT comedy relief I think they call it.
<br>Love your blog.
<br>Normie Rowe

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