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SPIDERS AND SNAKES

Bogie's comments on the aforementioned reminds me of a story. In high school 3 of my best friends lived on Hilton Head, so I spent every weekend at Sea Pines. One weekend Jim Stafford of Spiders and Snakes fame was doing the lounge at a local motel, when Spiders was still on the charts. There were about 12 people there.

There was a two drink minimum (yes, I was 16, but that was the de facto legal drinking age in South Carolina at the time. If you can marry at 13...). At any rate, for some reason we only had enough cash for the first round. When the waitress insisted we had to buy another round or leave, good old Jim bought our second round so a quarter of his audience didn't get the boot. He was a damned good entertainer, as I recall. And having a busted gig because your agent or the local promoter screwed up is a raw deal. But Jim was a professional. You would have thought he was playing the Royal Albert Hall. He does Branson now, which can be pretty lucrative. I'll bet he still plays Cow Patti. And if I ever run across him I owe him a beer.