Adventures of a Waterboy by Scott Mike

Author:Scott, Mike [Scott, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Published: 2012-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12: Like A House Of Cards Collapsing

San Diego, the last night of our American tour, and we’re performing an odd new song called ‘Room To Roam’. Wickham plays slithering fairground arpeggios while the band lays down a Bavarian waltz groove with baritone sax parps and a militaristic drum beat. We’re midway through the first verse when I notice three of our crew members at the side of the stage bending their knees in time to the music, going comedically up and down like pantomime policemen. Well, these things happen on the last nights of tours. I’m chuckling to myself between vocal lines when I see a few people in the middle of the front row of the audience pointing at the crew members and laughing. Then they start copying the dance, bobbing up and down themselves. As the second verse starts the people on either side of them start doing it too, and soon the move is spreading along the whole front row. I’m still singing and trying with diminishing success to keep a straight face when the second row starts copying them, and then the third, until soon, as the dance spreads organically, the whole audience from front row to back of the hall is doing an up and down knee-bendy dance like a silly policemen’s convention in a Monty Python sketch. And some of the audience are bending on the beat while the rest are off the beat, so that when half the crowd are going down the other half are going up. They’re all laughing at themselves too, and as the realisation spreads from the rear of the audience forwards that everyone’s doing the same thing, a giddy delight fills the hall. We’re all one, band and crowd united in a gorgeous, golden silliness.

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