Taos 8/7

From Tom:
We were all hoping that the experience Las Vegas would be the end of the sordid tale of bus trouble but the “fun” was not quite over. It was yet another 13+ hour derive from Las Vegas to Taos and somewhere early in the route the bus electrical/generator went out again so we were crossing the blazing desert in a bus with no AC and really no moving air at all. The temp on the bus had to be well over 100 degrees. This was truly a ride that seemed to be going straight to hell -literally. By the time we got to Taos everyone was boiling over and on the edge—and pretty much delirious. The last 24 hours, coming after 2+ weeks of “ok we’re just going to get thru this” had been about as much as everyone could take. Thankfully we had a beautiful night off sitting outside at our motel. One of our crew members was friends with the singer songwriter Joe Pug, who was opening for us the next night (check him out), as well as our promoter Steve, who went out of his way to take care of us. It turned out to be a much needed night of good people, food and drinks.
The next night we drove out to the amphitheater to get ready for the show and once again the generator had gone out, for the 5th time. Luckily one of our experienced crew members had been able to keep charging it and got it going right after Lucinda arrived and needed to finish getting ready on the bus. To say that nerves were frayed was putting it mildly. We found out later that our crew member who had been resuscitating the generator for the last week and nearly come to blows with Red Fred the driver.
Lucinda was definitely on edge when she took the stage -everyone was- but we had a huge audience -the largest ever for this festival -and once every came up front and started dancing during the second song, Lucinda just went with them and it was great beautiful night out in the New Mexico desert.