Sex Parties, Laugh Therapy, Freezing Rinks: A Glimpse into the Strange Life of a Session Musician It s a pennies game. There are fewer windfalls these days rather, a lot of smaller slices of different pies, says Cary Pratt
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Published Apr 21, 2021
In March 2004 or 2005 the date s a little fuzzy, all these years later drummer Cary Pratt was hired to play a private Mardi Gras party in the basement of an East Vancouver hotel. He didn t know much about the gig, but when he showed up, the hosts provided a costume for him to wear: a revealing naughty nurse outfit selected from a tickle trunk of lingerie.