The Dana Point Christmas party

I once played a Christmas party in Dana Point where I did not play a single Christmas Carol. At the time, I was a "belligerent artist" and only played my own compositions. I warned them in advance that I did not know any Christmas songs. Fortunately for them, my compositions were all pretty simple stupid little songs and not adventurous atonal master pieces that ended with the destruction of the piano itself. There was one song that they asked me to play again twice. Perhaps it was the only song they liked. It was the strangest Christmas party of their life. I got paid $100. Moins at System "M' who booked the job also got $100. I was playing piano at his restaurant for lunchtime on Mondays,or Wednesdays, or whenever I had a day off from CST. This was 1987 or 1988.

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William Schaeffer