Here’s as always - a banter/rant from Dred Scott- the phenomenal jazz pianist.

11am - arrive at screen test for reality show involving the kid’s band i play in.  the idea is wife swap except it’s lead singer swap.  i tell them an imaginary story about trying to get the lead singer from deicide to cover the upside down cross tatoo on his forehead with a baseball cap so the parents at the art museum gig we are about to do don’t freak out.  he wants to start with deicide’s big hit, ‘kill the christians,’ but i suggest ‘a day at the beach’ or ‘dad’s new car.’

2pm - drop off the drums at the movie shoot the trio is doing with linda fiorentino and chazz palmentieri.  there is nowhere to set up the drums so we put them in the kitchen and go for lunch.

4:30pm - finish a fantastic lunch at Lupa where i start drinking.  punt e mes at first.  then a couple of chilled shots of vodka.

5pm - meet up with the bass player at milady’s in soho.  play some pool.  drink some beers.  bass player has weed so we smoke on the way back to
shoot.

6:30pm - check in at shoot.  not sure when they will be ready for us.
don’t go too far.

6:45pm - some bar in western soho.  more drinks.  i try to call the cocaine dude i know but he won’t deliver just one line, so i forget about that idea.  the bass player suggests we slow down a little but we ignore him.

8pm - lunch and the set is now closed down for an hour.  i try to eat some vegetables and some not too bad tasting foil wrapped fish.

9:30pm - definitely can’t drink anymore and the drummer has gone missing.
i have a splitting headache and try to find some advil.  i can’t really account for the next couple of hours.

11pm - we get dressed in a stifling gymnasium.  my shirt is completely pit-stained by the time i walk the two blocks from holding over to the set.

Midnight -  we shoot our scene a few times.  i find out for the first time that there will be a close up of my hands playing the solo i played three days ago.  i get to listen to it three or four times.  while waiting for a reset i ask ms. fiorentino how it was working with vincent d’onofrio in men in black.  she confirms my suspicions that he is a lunatic.  i mean, what is that shit he is doing in law and order?  it’s like the dude went to the walken school of punctuation removal.

2am - after talking to the fourth p.a. i finally find out i can’t get 20 bucks to get home in a cab because they need the receipt, so i go over to varick and wake up a livery cab driver asleep in his front seat and ask him for a receipt which i produce to somebody who pulls out his wallet and hands me a twenty.

on the way home i’m thinking about poor heath ledger. it’s just not easy being in films.  lots of waiting, repetition.  it’s kind of boring for the actors. you don’t really get a sense of the kind of job you’ve done until it’s long over.  it’s easy to get distracted and go down a wrong path.  maybe i’ll just stick to music.  that acting shit is hard work.

TONIGHT
THE DRED SCOTT TRIO
ROCKWOOD MUSIC HALL
MIDNIGHT
W/ BEN RUBIN, BASS
TONY MASON, DRUMS

also tonight…
sasha dobson 9pm
michael daves 10pm
leah siegel 11pm

what a great lineup. i wish i could see some of it.  but i’ll be attending back to back aa meetings as penance for my lost day.

also this week
WEDNESDAY
THE DRED SCOTT TRIO
JULES BISTRO (65 st. mark’s place)
8:30-11pm
ben and tony…can you do this??

SATURDAY
THE DRED SCOTT TRIO
BLUE NOTE
12:30am
w/ ben and tony

and don’t forget
AUGUST 9
NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL
THE DRED SCOTT TRIO
w/ ben and tony

special thanks to ourstage.com

for helping us get this gig.

and check out thebloomeffect.com, your one stop for artists, labels and lifestyle marketers.  check out fiona’s blog, too.

dredscott.com
myspace.com/dred666

ben rubin

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