THE DR.
PHILBILLY SHOW - Click Clack
by Wayne Carlan
Many years ago
I worked at a finance company with my good buddy
Joey Temples. We had our Christmas party at a
restaurant in Slidell, LA called “Dixie and
Lamar’s.” Now Dixie and Lamar use to
play in Hank William Jr’s band. One of them
was even his brother-in-law; I can’t
remember which one though. Anyway, we were having
a great time, listening to them play music,
eating wonderful food and having a few drinks and I’m
feeling pretty good.
Joey gets up
to go to the restroom and when he returns he sees
me up on stage with Dixie and Lamar playing in
the band. Now I can play a pretty mean guitar but
that wasn’t my instrument of choice at this
moment. I had grabbed two spoons off our table
and Joey is shocked to see me clickin’ and a
clackin’. I was hammering down on those bad
boys. I even had a solo, “click, clack,
click, clack, click, click, click, clack.”
I can see
Joey’s mouth moving but I can’t hear a
word he said. Good thing I can read lips. He said
“What in the heck is that crazy son of a gun
doing?” The song ends and Dixie said, “Let’s
hear it for Click Clack.”
Everybody claps and they set up for the next song,
but I ain’t moving. I’m just getting
warmed up. Dixie looks at me and says again
“Let’s hear it for Click Clack.”
Everybody claps again but I don’t budge.
Dixie keeps
staring at me… I said “I’m ready,
lead us in brother.” He just starts laughing,
shrugs his shoulders at Lamar and he leads off
with the next song. I start clickin’ and
clackin’. Dixie can’t stand it no more
and has to stop paying because he is laughing so
hard. I take advantage of this opportunity to
give another solo. Click, clack, click, clack,
cli…, dang I dropped a spoon on the stage
and Dixie kicks it away with one swift move and
says “Let’s hear it for Click Clack.”
Oh well, it
was fun while it lasted. I took a bow and went
back to my seat. No one at the table can breathe
and tears are rolling down all their faces.
Joey’s sister Karla says “I ain’t
wrote in my journal for years but this is going
in it.” Good times. I’m just
sayin’.
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