One of the clubs made a deal with me, they only charged a percentage of the door. Then, weeks later, they sent a contract stipulating I had to pay almost $400 in rental charges. Nowhere was that ever discussed. I didn’t now what to do. I asked my colleague whose advice essentially was cancel the show, fuck those assholes. An understandable response perhaps but I decided instead to play dumb. I wrote back asking why their contract did not reflect our previous agreement? They wrote back they screwed up. They sent the wrong contract. They apologized. And in a universe not so far away, an easy listening station turned up the volume of Kenny Rogers singing the gambler.