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Carnival Cruise Lines, based in Miami FL is currently seeking country and country/variety bands. Bands can be no larger than 4 people. Material should be comprised of contemporary country/and or dance/popular music from the 50s-present. This position is being offered directly through the company-this is not an ad for a talent agency and there is no booking fee. The minimum commitment for these positions are 4 months, and you would live aboard the vessel for the entire time period. If interested please contact Chuck Farmer at 800 438-6744x81022, or cfarmer@carnival.com

Didn't Carnival Cruise Lines leave those people behind in jail in Antigua?

I wouldn't work for you, because you can't be trusted.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/bro ... tigua.html

If you left me somewhere, I'd nuke your shitbag of a ship.

NUKE THE WHOLE FUKKIN' SH¡TBAG OF THE FLEET! BUNCHA FUKKIN' DIKWADS!

Do I hafta play like the dance band on the Titanic if the boat goes down?

TITANIC = Badword in my book.
But the band played on.

Cruise Ships are a great opportunity for show bands.
The people you meet are often connected, and can throw you many other opportunities, everything from corporate work to music industry peeps taking vacations.

Kramer, you should flip this to your band leader.

Maybe it would be an opportunity to go out full time?

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but the food is great

Crip2Nite wrote:NUKE THE WHOLE FUKKIN' SH¡TBAG OF THE FLEET! BUNCHA FUKKIN' DIKWADS!

I take it that Mugsy isn't playing on a cruise ship any time soon.

If you're puking because you are seasick, the food doesn't equate. lol

Wow, you guys must have awesome jobs that don't suck the will to live right out of you to be so cynical about a gig playing music on a cruise ship. I wish I were more like you.

Depending on your particular contract, & the co involved, Dajax, cruise lines can be awful to work for.

You're entitled to your own opinion about anything even if you are wrong.

dajax. LOL

Not sure if that was technically an opinion as much as an observation, but either way...in 2 months when I need to spend 3 hours digging my tractor trailer out of a snow bank before I can start my 16 hr day...bring on the bad shrimp and shitty songlist

Well, when you put it that way..lol

ooh bad shrimp..

You ever had food poisoning?

(oh my gut hurts just thinking about it)

I think if I had a band I would be looking into this. Cruise ships can be a good gig, if you play your cards right they pay well and go all over the world. As already noted, you can also meet some excellent connections.

As far as this cruise line goes, they probably had no choice but to leave the people there, it's a foreign country so they might be in jail for quite a while. It's not like New York or Chicago where you can find a bondsman 24/7 right down the street who actually speaks your language, there might not even be such a thing as bail.

From reading the comments in one of the articles, (I read the supplementary articles too) someone from that country noted that the fight had started because one of the women involved assaulted a police officer. The whole group was being belligerent, probably acting like they were still in the "hood". You can't go to a foreign country and expect everything to be the same as if you were at home, especially if you show your ass. many countries do not tolerate Americans with attitudes, even if the Americans are in the right. You are in THEIR country, you have to play by THEIR rules. And the best rule is stay out of trouble.

It seems they got into a cab that was not the legitimate cab company, and had a disagreement over the fee, the cabbie tried to rip them off. They should have been warned about cabbie ripoffs, and probably were, and ignored the warnings. They also initiated a "brawl" as it was called, and attacked police officers. Plainclothes, but police nonetheless.

The cruise line most likely had no choice but to leave them, they can't sit there for six months waiting for the locals to hold a trial. If you are a passenger on a cruise ship they probably also have a clause in their agreement with you that specifically states that if you get arrested you will be left behind. I really doubt this is the first time American tourists have gotten into trouble abroad, the cruise lines are well prepared for this, they have seen it before.

When my high school band went to Vienna Austria for the first international band festival, this was one of the things we were well warned about. if you get into trouble, chances are the US can't do much about it, you're not in the US any more. So stay out of trouble. So what if your daddy is mayor, halfway around the world he has NO pull whatsoever. Nor does your lawyer or even your congressman. Only the US embassy has any chance of helping you. And that may not be much of a chance.

Bad mouth the cruise line all you want, fact is these people started a fight in a third world country and are subject to their laws and values, not ours. I haven't seen their contract with the cruise line but I would almost bet it covers this kind of eventuality. If you get thrown in jail you get left behind, the cruise line is not responsible for your actions while ashore.