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DON'T
TRY THIS AT HOME;

"Day
7, part 1: almost to Idaho"
Well, it's
noon and we're gonna grab a bite somewhere about 90 miles west of
the Idaha border. The drive through wenatchee mountains was breathtaking.
I'm in the cargo van with Chapple driving and daddyo and rusty are
in the passenger van ahead of us. Rusty and I goof off with text
messages when we get board. Chapple and I are listening to Tom Waits'
"Nighthawks at the diner" and just relaxing. We have 2
days to get to minneasota. But we've done this drive before and
it's a really great scenic ride. After last night's show, we all
went to gene's room to drink and hang out. gene said, "party
in my room!" Arthur was hanging out with leon hendrix and I
think Chris was hanging with some friends (chris used to live in
seattle).
We got our
wake-up calls at 8am this morning, which was tough because I went
to sleep at 3am..ouch! Since Chris and Arthur are flying, they got
to sleep till noon....no fair, man. Last night's show was so fun
and the place we played, the Expereince Music Project, is truly
a site to see...simply amazing...you have to visit it to really
understand what I mean.
So we figure
to drive for about 12 hours, which would put us somewhere in the
middle of montana. But if this were Europe, you could drive from
norway to france in the same amount of time! lots of "good
ol boys", guns, and catfish in montana. A lot of the woman
have the same haircut (the jersey flip..know that one?) and wear
those shirs that say stuff like "You can't be first but you
can be next", which is almost as nice as this british girl's
shirt in london that said,"mind holding my bag while I snog
your mate?" And for those of you not in the know, snogging
is making out. it's SHAGGING that refers to the wild thing. My buddy,
Barry, is always finding a stray in a bar somewhere and winds up
either snogging or shagging....he cracks me up and I hope he doesn't
get mad at me for blowing his cover. But, hey, he and Rusty and
R got so friggin drunk about 4 years ago...no, maybe longer than
that. But, he's irish, so drinking 3 shots to him is like a glass
of milk to most everyone else...but Barry's a huge Arthur Lee fan
and is one of those people that will fly to a show, if you can believe
that! If you can't, ask Scully!!!!
Well, exit
220 off the 90 interstate hwy is coming up. It'll be catfish and
string beans or chicked fried steak and bisciuts covered in gravy...or
whatever Flo is serving today..."Say, where's ya'llz band from?
well, flo, we're from Los Angeles."Ya'llz band ever see famous
people like Regis?" Um, flo, Ithink regis is in new york.
Stuff like
that...on day 7 of the LOVE WITH ARTHUR LEE north american tour.
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Mike Randle
mike@lovewitharthurlee.com

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