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Buddy Rich
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Turn that fuckin' guitar down
Nobody comes to Gigi's to listen to a white guy play guitar, son, turn the thing down. What do you think I got a man with a sound system out there for? What, you think people can't hear you? I can hear everything. Me and Baptist here are accustomed to working with number one musicians,

What kind of playing do you call this?
Baptist is never gonna get any respect leading a band like that. After the second time the trumpet fucked up his line, I'd have taken him outside and shown him what it's like

Are you high?
Kid, your piano playing playin' isn't fuckin' cutting it. Not on the street, and for damn sure not in my band. What kind of playing is being played here tonight? I'm accustomed to hearing A-plus players out on Bourbon Street, and you've got a long way to go, a long fuckin' way to go. What'sa matter,

Back off that fuckin' microphone
What are you doing, Baptist? Man gives you signal to sing a line or two and you take over the whole song? This is New Orleans, you think I can't break that fuckin' trombone over my knee, throw the pieces in opposite directions and hit two singers better than you? Cause I fuckin'