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DON'T
TRY THIS AT HOME;

"day
4: Eugene to Portland/the show"

Woke up in
Eugene around 9am. Went and got coffee, serfed the net. got back
to the hotel around 11am, chiled with Chapple. By the way, Chris,
our roadie, calls Dave Chapple, "C-H to the apple". ok,
got that out of the way...
Pulled into
portland around 3pm. now, I got a really long story about our hotel
and I plan to write it on our way up to vancouver. But these people
at this hotel...well, I'll contain myself...for now...
Ok, so this
show in portland...I feel it was one of the best LOVE shows...but
since I am in my hotel room and Gene, Chapple, Daddyo and Rusty
ARE in here as well...why don't I let them do the talking? Ok, who
wants to type? Ok, no one wants to talk so never mind, right? Besides,
these guys aren't even worthy of gracing the "business end"
of my keyboard. Ok, laughing's over...
It was super
great to see Seattle Brad, who chimes in on the message board on
the love website. He bought us (the band plus our roadie, chris)a
round of beers (THANKS BRAD!!!!!!!!!!) We listened to zydeco music
while we ate. Went back to the hotel and Chapple and I fell asleep
for an hour, only to be woken up by Gene's "Downstairs in five
minutes" call.
We all got
in the van and got to the venue. Went on about 10:30 and straight
super-rocked. Tonight's show, in my humble opinion, was up there
with the show in Amsterdam...and ask the FREEDOM MAN: that WAS the
best show...I don't care what anyone says!!!!
Arthur was
brilliant, spot on, And consistanly told the audience how much he
loved them! After the show, we hung out with Jef, from the local
paper (and a local great DJ...who also happened to write a very
DEEP song about Arthur called...um, Arthur Lee. he was real cool..
So, afterwards,
we all headed back to the hotel. Arthur and Chris went to their
respective hotel rooms and the rest of us hung out in Chapple and
my room. Drinking beers, chillling out and talking about such a
fun and wonderful show. And also fun and wonderful portland folks.
Portland rules: can't say it enough...
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Mike Randle
mike@lovewitharthurlee.com

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