GEORGIA THEATRE: On the tour bus in Athens. (L to R) Robert Schneck, Willie Perkins, Billy Bob Thornton, John Lyndon, Skoots Lyndon and Richard Brent.
and I was doing the best I could to earn the band even more loyal fans. I did not, how- ever, want to overwhelm Billy by dragging a bunch of folks onto the bus at once. I had planned to bring on the folks I had waiting outside two at a time, but time was getting away from us. I asked Billy if four folks would be too many and he said na, so I brought Colleen, Joey, Steve and Laura on. Everybody mat, chatted, took photos and listened to Joey tell Billy Bob bad jokes (LOL). I knew after a bit it was time to clear out, so we all left the bus. I was looking for Jim and Susan Brown to let them meet him, but unfortunately, I didn’t see them until we were all out and the road manager Tom had lind of hinted it was time to get down to business and get ready for the show. There were two opening bands, one of
which included several of my friends, Freddie Vanderford, Matthew Knights and Brandon Turner among them. Everywhere I went I
seemed to bump into another old friend. The inside of Ground Zero was so hot you
could fry an egg on the floor (although I wouldn’t recommend it!), and the air was so thick with smoke I could barely see the stage. I did buffalo my way down front to stage right, where I sucked up second hand smoke for the first hour of The Boxmasters show while snapping photos. (Not so good for a guy who was on oxygen last year at this time!) The guys rocked their regular “street”
clothes for this gig, forgoing the modbilly suits and ties. It was grat fun. A short time later, I flew into Baltimore to
hang with my good friend Craig Stevens. We would see The Boxmasters that night in Alexandria, Virginia at the Bershmire, a nice place that has hundreds of signed posters decorating the halls of all the folks who played there, from Waylon Jennings to Dweezil Zappa, Kris Kristofferson to B.B. King!
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