Two A Days Part Two

October 29, 2005
Paris Pumpkin Festival
Paris, Texas

Well, it was a fine crisp day today and perfect to be playing outside. This was the first time that I had ever played on a trailer and also the first time that I had a chance to play in front of so many people in the middle of a city’s downtown area. It was a great gig for the cash I believe as well. I won’t go into numbers but I will say that it was a rather handsome payoff for 45 minutes worth of “work.”

This was one of our double-header days also. After the show in Paris it’s off to the next city for a private party.

We got a little lost in the country trying to find the place, and it turns out that the house that we thought the party was at originally was actually the home of Jay Novacek. Once we finally got turned around right we were greeted with warm hospitality.

We had no idea that we were playing a costume party for Halloween and since we didn’t dress the part a lady named Bendy decided that we, (Eric, Wayne, and I) were going to be “black eyed peas”, so she proceeded to place a duct tape “P” on our chests and blacked our eyes with her eye liner. Michael got off easy with a long wig and some shades. I don’t know who he was supposed to be but he ended up looking like some hybrid cross between Rob Zombie and Charles Manson. It was a beautiful thing.

Costume of the night had to go to Matt Hillyer of 1,100 Springs. He came walking out of the garage, yea, we played in a garage used to build motorcycles (definitely our crowd) and I saw him and the first thing that came to mind and my mouth were, “Hello, Mr. Kotter!” He walked over and explained that he was actually Burt Reynolds. We all laughed our balls off for a while on that.

What a great day!

I hope that we get to do the same next year.

Lp.

P.S. Sorry for the lack of party pics that evening, but this wasn’t the kind of gig that too many people wanted their pictures taken at. Thanks to Stephanie O’Neal for the downtown pics!

Full band downtown Paris.

The six-stringers in action.

I remember thinking, "How cool is this playing in the middle of the road downtown? Pretty damn cool."

This is definately the best picture taken of Wayne to date in my opinion. It's usually hard to get a good pic of him because if he sees a camera he immediately wants to look at it and smile. This is a photographers nightmare when trying to take a decent action shot. Anyway, again, great shot, Steph. You got this one tight!