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DON'T
TRY THIS AT HOME;

DENMARK
ROCKS and goes home
Today is
sunday and i'm on a train somewhere in denmark, on my way to stockholm,
sweden. Two nights ago, we played a great show-playing nearly every
song we know-at the pumphauset in Copenhagen. There were a lot of
happy fans, one of which was miming his own dance-hand gestures
to every song. A real treat! We all had fun and afterwards, Arthur
hung out with all the fans that stayed after the show, signing autographs
and posing for pix.
We were invited
to a party by Jonas, the guy who's party we went to the last time
we played, but we decided to go to the hotel with Bent and hang
out in the hotel bar and drink some Tuborg (beer) and relax. I got
hungry around 3am and went strolling near Tivali square and found
a kabob place I'd been to 6 years earlier. The food was great and
there were people out and about, paying no attention to the time.
As I returned to my hotel room (4am), it was beginning to get light
outside!
The next
morning, Bent got us up and we piled in the van and he drove for
two hours to Randers, Denmark. We checked in our hotel and went
to the club, Tante Olga, soundchecked for about 45 min. Then the
club owner, Leif, gave us dinner, which was quite nice really,
something
like turkey strogonoff. I asked Leif about the local beer, Thor,
and if he liked it. See, when I was in Odense, Torbin said Thor
beer was better than Tuborg-and I love Tuborg, so I asked Leif if
Torbin was right. The sound guy, John Wall, explained it like this:
there is an advertisement that has a horse drinking out of a pail
and the pail says TUBORG and he's pissing in a pail that says THOR.
You get the pix! So I stuck with the Tuborg. We finally went on
stage around 9pm and proceeded to straight ROCK for about 90 minutes.
Afterwards,
Arthur again hung out with fans and signed autographs while Rusty
and Chapple and I talked to Torbin. We finished our beers and then
went for a kabob across the street from the hotel. There were some
LOVE fans that were there earlier and the owner told me all they
talked about was the concert! Decided to go to sleep around 1am
and got a wake up call from Gene around 10:30am today for breakfast.
But the breakfast was not very good. As a matter of fact, Bent called
it the worst breakfast he'd ever had
and he's Danish! Well,
this was our last day with Bent, as he's starting a tour with another
band so we won't have another road manager until the UK when Ringo
jumps aboard
and oh won't that be fun!
So, I'm writing
this on gene's lap top on a rather bumpy train ride on our way to
Stockholm and a day off. Those 3 shows we played were all fun and
the fans have been great. Oops! Almost forgot
we met two cool
Scottish guys who swore the Scots are the most dedicated LOVE fans.
Well, I'm gonna go back to my beer and smoked salmon dinner. Until
next time
Mike Randle
mike@lovewitharthurlee.com

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