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The Valves go to new Bedford
This was our trip to New Bedford this past September. It was a fun gig, with a really large stage, something of a luxury for us, as we're usually packed like sardines on most of the stages we play on. The gig began as most do, with those of us who were carpooling together meeting at Fabulous Chez Steve...
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The Festival putter-oners were nice enough to provide a fully equipped RV for us to use while waiting to play. It was pretty nice, and air-conditioned. Clockwise from left, I see Timmeh, Reagan, Reagan's dad Dave (or, as he is known around these parts "Ace"), Paul in his amazing technicolor dream shirt, Roger, Mike and Allen... |
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Coach Steve gives the pre-game speech... |
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The blowboys, Roger and Joe R |
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And now Roger and Steve. Roger's shirt has half naked girls on it.... heh heh heh...cool... |
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Tom setting up his drums. You can tell we're not actually playing yet, because Tom's shirt isn't one that has to be cleared with the FAA within 5 miles of an airport... |
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And here, the Mt. Rushmore Keys™ putting their stuff together. Not sure who the two other guys are. |
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And here, stage view. Lots of people. The senior citizens who camped out in front of the stage are about to get a rude awakening... |
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now looking to the right... Most of the people who had camped out in front of the stage all day left shortly after we started. Apparently they were expecting the Wayne Newton impersonator.. Maybe he was the next night. |
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Mr. Ladd, still in his "Black Period" which began sometime in 1981 and continues unabated.... |
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About to start the show, Greg pointing out hot chicks in front of the stage maybe?... |
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it was a dark and stormy night, well, not really... |
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Either this guy is introducing us, or maybe he just ran onstage and hasn't been tackled by security yet. We don't always object to people coming onstage, provided their names are Bambi, Heather or Tiffany and they work for the local Hooters.. |
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The official Horn Section view.... |
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Ladd Nugent rocks out!! |
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This is what the brass section would look like if you were on drugs... |
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Steve LeClaire, Mr. Entertainment... |
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What do we learn from this picture? Joe is very large, and Reagan is going to keep playing barefoot until the day she finally gets electrocuted... Oh, and Greg seems to change shirts obsessive-compulsively... |
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It looks like reagan is holding up a towel here.. hmmm... There was a shower in the RV... |
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Judging by the look on Mike's face, I'm thinking maybe he's just noticed Joe's fly is unzipped and that he's not wearing underwear... |
Yes,
that is Reagan with her hair in curlers so she can look fabulous
at the event. Reagan spares no effort or expense to look simply
stunning at each and every gig, and no, Tom is NOT wearing boxer
shorts here...
Another
shot of Reagan and her curlers standing beside greg, who had just
removed his. The mildly amused looking young man in the background
is Reagan's personal assistant, roadie, wardrobe coordinator and
boyfriend Timmeh...
Boy,
do they know how to have fun or what?...
Here
we are a few hours later after locating the fairground in New
Bedford, which wasn't easy. Reagan is now curlerless and we've
been joined by Allen and Roger, who look just as confused as Tom
does here apparently trying to discover what's behind door number
3....
This
is the stage we were to play on. When we first got here, there
were a bunch of kids doing folk dancing type stuff. Big stage!!
You don't appreciate the value of a big stage until you've been
in an 11 piece band playing in micro-bars...
As
far as we could tell, this whole fairground exists solely for
this one festival every year. Maybe they have flea markets on
weekends or something...
More
Valves milling about, Roger, Greg, Allen, Steve and Joe. Joe appears
to be wearing some sort of combination bowling shirt / kimono.
That's a lot of fabric..
