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It’s going to be an interesting three weeks. For the first time ever we had a major problem getting a tour bus for this run. You could call it a perfect storm in the touring business but after three months of being on waiting list and thinking that we would find one that someone cancelled. Well that didn’t quite happen. A week before this first show we still did not have a bus. Pure desperation had now set in. And then we got word that we may have found one. IF they could get it running. I think this so called “bus” had been sitting in someone’s rural Tennessee front yard with grass growing around it. Probably somebody’s white trash guest house. You could describe it as one step up from the Beverly Hillbillies truck. And a step below the Partridge family bus. Well they actually did get it started and somehow, using two rotating drivers, managed to get it to California. Really late but they got it there.
Lu had been warned of the situation -that we did indeed get a bus, but it was, uhhhh, well, not a great one. And we thought, ok, we are just lucky to have something and how bad could it be?
And then, right before the show, Lu got her first look at it. And the answer to that question is…..
Bad.
I think somehow the shock of reality led to very energized and rocking set. I think Lu would have played for hours just so she didn’t have to get on the bus.
Didn’t quite know what to expect with playing on a Sunday night and closing out a festival. But the huge audience couldn’t be better. And a special thanks and shout out the people putting on and working the festival. Well done.
And then it was time to finally get on the “bus”.
To be continued.
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It’s going to be an interesting three weeks. For the first time ever we had a major problem getting a tour bus for this run. You could call it a perfect storm in the touring business but after three months of being on waiting list and thinking that we would find one that someone cancelled. Well that didn’t quite happen. A week before this first show we still did not have a bus. Pure desperation had now set in. And then we got word that we may have found one. IF they could get it running. I think this so called “bus” had been sitting in someone’s rural Tennessee front yard with grass growing around it. Probably somebody’s white trash guest house. You could describe it as one step up from the Beverly Hillbillies truck. And a step below the Partridge family bus. Well they actually did get it started and somehow, using two rotating drivers, managed to get it to California. Really late but they got it there.
Lu had been warned of the situation -that we did indeed get a bus, but it was, uhhhh, well, not a great one. And we thought, ok, we are just lucky to have something and how bad could it be?
And then, right before the show, Lu got her first look at it. And the answer to that question is…..
Bad.
I think somehow the shock of reality led to very energized and rocking set. I think Lu would have played for hours just so she didn’t have to get on the bus.
Didn’t quite know what to expect with playing on a Sunday night and closing out a festival. But the huge audience couldn’t be better. And a special thanks and shout out the people putting on and working the festival. Well done.
And then it was time to finally get on the “bus”.
To be continued.
Hey, nothing wrong with rural Tennessee yards. . . . Funny account. From the outside, the bus looks sharp. Keep us apprised.
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