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Oh man, Phoenix Numero Dos could not possibly top this. Why oh why was I languishing in [semi]rural TN during it? I’m surprised David joined them for “Ugly Truth,” but what a song. That and “Seeing Black” come fall, please (from a man who makes very few requests).
I’m pretty sure I rode this very bus to fourth grade some four and a half decades ago, and it has been parked nearby in “rural Tennessee” ever since, after having the yellow paint scraped off. And I know of only one crew member who could probably take Redd Foxx in a fair fight.
The Beverly Hillbillies indeed! Rural Tennesseeans before they got the California bug, I believe. Thanks for the account, Tom–and may “Seeing Black” grace many more fall setlists.
thanks for preserving my anonymity, Tom; “longtime. . .fan” captures it well. I try not to do blatant requests (though “Seeing Black” can never be done enough among the rockers), but I called a good one in Billings, if I may say so myself.
Well done, Mike: did you take a wild hair to fly in? No solo miniset for this town, this crowd, I see. Still, I like it.
@Los Doyers wrote:
The show was dandy indeed. ¡Muchísimas gracias, Tomás!
I liked the venue, and the drive back west wasn’t as bad as after McCartney last summer. Looking forward to the next few shows. There’s even an afternoon ballgame in Phoenix Sunday a few blocks from the venue, the Sheraton, and Alice Cooperstown.Glad you made it, Dan. Samish (Mike) and I looked for you. Do give us reports from Vegas and beyond. And I once saw the D’backs in action in conjunction with a Lu AZ concert.
There’s only one surefire response to this bus narrative: made in rural Tennessee, for sure for sure.
Ha ha rural Tennessee rocks, my friend. Perhaps you and Lu will settle there, as you can still be quite close to Nash and boast a house-yard with plenty of acreage for old buses out in the nearby country a bit.
I have never liked Redd Foxx or Fred Sanford much, for the record. . . .
@SamishSeaMike wrote:
Thanks stoger… Listened to Lafayette yesterday (prompted by the shootings) having not heard it in a while and figured Lu would likely play it… While I like and enjoyed the song, I did find myself thinking that Lu’s songwriting had come a long way..
Enjoy the trip to Alberta… beautiful country I’ve heard.. especially by train if you are still traveling via rail.
(Like how you wrote the post in Canadian style.. (humour as opposed to humor)..but I believe that the scratched song would then be “Fruits of My Labour”…)
I do love those superfluous silent vowels in British/Canadian speak, Mike. Let’s hope I get a chance to employ them more in the UK come 2016.
@tonyg wrote:
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.
@SamishSeaMike wrote:
Excellent show and a great crowd!
Sitting wasn’t an option in my front row seat and that’s exactly why i made the trip down.. looked like a place that will be a little less stuffy than my neighborhood Mt. Baker Theatre will be tonight..In our State Capitol, Lu has upped the ante on political speak since the last time I saw the band in February. Donald Trump even got a chuckling mention.
Singer/songwriter Matt Blake from Austin kicked off the evening and had me chuckling with a song he wrote titled “Keith Richards Old Bones” .. Buick 6 sounded great as usual.. doing their very slowed down version of Righteously and Butch has added a pre-recorded french woman speaking that he plays during one of the songs to his bag of tricks that had me looking around for the woman… The voice also appears on their new album, which I listened to on the drive home and enjoyed very much…
The crowd really was into it and Lu seemed to love it and feed off of the enthusiasm..
Great to run into stoger.. and am looking forward to another one tonight!I too have looked around for French women, Mike–at Lu venues and in the world at large. Encore cette soir!
@vmorris wrote:
Lu is doing a show at the CMA Theatre at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville on 9/3 with Emmylou and Roseanne Cash (Roseanne’s also doing a show of The River and The Thread the day before). I tried to buy tickets pre-sale today w/ my membership, but it looks as though it is already sold out?? Any info out there on the FF? I feel like my ticket mojo is off lately… Viv
this venue is tiny, I would say under 200 seats.
