El Kiko -> RE: Cruise liner work (Mar. 5 2012 15:32:18)
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how does it work ? u get free food, sure you get free food .... you can go wherever you want on the ship but a few places were off limits to us as we are crew and not passengers ...you play everyday , no there are no days off. we would play a "matinee" in the afternoon , and the main dance gig on the night in one of the Ballrooms . Also we would play for variuos artists , Singers that would turn up. Some of these would be very famous indeed, and they would have their arranger and the music so we would have a few minutes to look at that in the afternoon and play the gig as a backing band on the night.. In the rehearsal you don't play all the tune , just what we call "top and tail" which is the intro in and then stop ,, jump to the end ,,and finish ... the whole tune in 20 secs....at this point anyone can stick his hand up to request a bit if they think they need it ..... Like Start .....ok .....the end ...OK move on ,,, wait the guitarist wants something,,,,, "yeah , I got a notated solo in the middle ...looks a bit tricky .." OK play from from letter H for the crappy guitar player ///....right ...move on.. You only get one shot at it , if any ,,, everything had to be first time read off ,,, thats what I get paid for /......... The pay was very good but also related to the country you came from ...with it being so International , therefore the Philipinos would get good money for being in the Phillpines , but that would be less than me comming from a more expensive country.. You would share a cabin in the depths of the ship somewhere , it was ok really . the trip depends on your contract , mine was for a year . I did short loops out of Southhampton to France , Portugal . the Med etc ...sometimes only a few days , then back to change passengers. then It was 5 day trip to New york , and do loops out of there to Barbados , Carribean etc..then would come the world tour leave new york and not come back round south america , to new zealand , Australia Japan , Thailand all that , thn we would end in Japan and the japanese would rent it for a few months every year as a floating casino . We flew home , then start again next season.. You drink a lot .... A lot ....
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