Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

COLLECTION

At one time, for 15 minutes, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum was the world’s
only traveling museum of used sports equipment. We had a punching bag,
a “speedbag”, mounted over the rear exit door of our bus. Following a
late gig in New York, a group of drunken businessmen was asking about
our bus and the SGM name on the front. We explained to them that we
were traveling with “celebrity” sporting equipment, for instance a
speedbag formerly belonging to Sugar Ray Leonard, a famous American
boxer.
“All the way from California with this?”, they asked, incredulous.
“Yes, we charge only 25 cents.” They each paid and took turns on the
bag. We also had a baseball bat (as a weapon, really) and a soccer
ball (a weapon against ourselves), each purportedly having belonged to
a semi-famous American athlete.
“Wow, this is all you have?”
“Yes, well, that’s why we charge admission…to raise money. We’re
building our collection.”
“OK. Cool. Good luck.” And they stumbled down the ramp, their 25 cents
well spent.

MILK
That was years ago. Frank Grau, then our drummer, knew something
about sports history. It would be ill-advised for us to try this in
Europe, both because of our ignorance and lack of sports gear. We now
have, instead, babies, and can perhaps claim that we are a sightseeing
organization for toddlers: “See Europe! Drink some milk!”

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