funny story.

I got an email from Bobbe Seymore (steel guitar player with a weekly newsletter) and he has an awesome story. He has worked with a lot of (older) big names but some VERY big names in country music. Anyway, here's the story (read it, it's awesome!):

You’ll see the end of this story coming before you get to it. One time while working with a very famous female country music star, we were having a very hard time finding a place to dump our bilge tank that had gotten full enough where we couldn’t do any more flushing in the bus until we found a place to empty the tank.

We pulled out from a truck stop in Chicago, were heading down the road when a band of motorcycle artists came up beside us screaming, “We hate country music.”

After doing this for about 20 minutes, the rotten tomatoes started coming along with some eggs being thrown at us. We didn’t want to stop because that may have been sheer death for us, because I know they wouldn’t let me personally sleep through the fight that would ensue.

So while going down the interstate at about 75 mph, I suddenly got the brilliant idea to get as many of the gang behind us as we could and open the bilge tank.

Upon telling the bus driver, he screamed, “No. We can’t do that.”

I replied, “Sure we can.”

Recalling the story about the Dave Mathews Band that did this while transversing a wire mesh bridge in Chicago a week before, it must have affected the gang of Harleys pretty severely because we had no more trouble from them, however we did not escape observation from the police.

They pulled us over on the side of the road and I was the one that had the privilege of talking to them since it was my idea the band said. Upon talking the policeman in charge and introducing him to 3 or 4 celebrities on the bus, he seemed to get a big kick out of the result we attained, but promised us if we ever did it again, our fine could be upwards of ten dollars.

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