The Hot Club

Becky, the Hot Club’s own, is pulling up stakes and moving to LA with her husband. Becky is an art teacher when she isn’t tending bar and her husband works for Whole Foods. We wish Becky and her husband the best of luck in their new adventure. It was pouring rain outside last Friday and it was coming into the Hot Club sideways. We were on the inside of the outside bar but still caught some spray. Charlie Clancy said it was getting ‘misty’. Suddenly Mike Module said, “I hope my sunroof is closed.” High Wire Bill asked me if Will Middlebrooks played another position. I told him shortstop in a pinch. Bill feels that the Red Sox may go the way of Bill Belichick and the Patriots and look for players with flexibility, versatility. Makes sense. Told Mike Module, Jesse, Mr. D. and Fleet Feet Pete about Stax/Volt artists Sam and Dave, who despite some great songs and a powerful act, did not get along. It got so bad that they would show up separately, required separate dressing rooms, and wouldn’t look at each other during performances. (plug in sam and dave and check out last.fm/music). One of Sam and Dave’s megahits was Hold On, I’m Comin’. The song was written by Isaac Hayes and David Porter. The story goes that Isaac Hayes had an idea for that song and yelled to Porter, who was in the bathroom. So Porter hollered back, “Hold on, man, I’m coming.” When the song was first released, the radio stations thought the title was too suggestive and got them to change it to Hold On, I’m A-Comin’. Fleet Feet Pete worked on a golf course as a grounds keeper. Pete and his co-workers had drained the course’s pond and cleaned it of clubs and golf balls. It was pouring rain so they hit a ton of the recovered balls toward a hole that was over a rise, and couldn’t be seen. Just then Pete’s uncle and his uncle’s big client played through only to find their balls mixed with about 300 others. And Pal Al says he once played golf in a six-some. They got in trouble for slow play. When players in the clubhouse ragged on them, Al pointed out that they played as a foursome and a twosome. They still didn’t like it. Al said “It’s a public course. It says ‘open to the public’.”