From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V12 #146 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Thursday, September 27 2007 Volume 12 : Number 146 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: The County Sheriff Had A Hair Lip [Ghastly ] Re: Alloy: The County Sheriff Had A Hair Lip [Ghastly Subject: Alloy: The County Sheriff Had A Hair Lip http://ghastlycomic.livejournal.com/83410.html Read/see/listen all about it. Crackers ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:39:59 -0400 From: Merujo Subject: Re: Alloy: The County Sheriff Had A Hair Lip Congratulations, man. God, you guys must have been sweating bullets getting there so close to start time. Yikes! But it sounds like the time between racing to get there and the police interaction afterwards was pretty fine. :) What a total blast it must have been! BTW, I love that the cop drove you guys to a Tim Hortons. At least you could have coffee and a donut while you waited for your ride. And I can't believe the tour bus got a ticket, too. Jeez! Again - congrats, man -- so sorry that Montreal didn't work out. Cheers, Melissa On 9/26/07, Ghastly wrote: > > http://ghastlycomic.livejournal.com/83410.html > > Read/see/listen all about it. > > Crackers > - -- "We all have ability. The difference is how we use it." -- Stevie Wonder ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:09:11 -0400 From: Ghastly Subject: Re: Alloy: The County Sheriff Had A Hair Lip Merujo wrote: > Congratulations, man. God, you guys must have been sweating bullets > getting there so close to start time. Yikes! But it sounds like the > time between racing to get there and the police interaction afterwards > was pretty fine. :) What a total blast it must have been! > > BTW, I love that the cop drove you guys to a Tim Hortons. At least you > could have coffee and a donut while you waited for your ride. > > And I can't believe the tour bus got a ticket, too. Jeez! > > Again - congrats, man -- so sorry that Montreal didn't work out. > > Cheers, > > Melissa > The drama in getting there has become one of those "let us speak of this never again" sort of events for the band. The night took a turn from bad to fatally worse when we actually arrived at the club as a very angry man at the door in a white T-shirt with a "Hello my name is SLIM SHADY name tag on it didn't want to let us in the club to perform because we were so late. I promised him we'd set up and tear down so fast he wouldn't even know we were there (we're famously good at the quick set-up and tear down since our road rig is so wonderfully minimal). He was having none of it though. Then through a crack in the door I spotted Thomas up on stage. Seeing an opportunity I bolted past the man and sprinted as fast as my gimpy legs would take me up to Thomas. Said high and was greeted with a hearty handshake and smile. Asked Thomas if it would be okay if we set up in an unused corner of the stage so that none of their kit would need to move. He was cool with that. Slim Shady was still angry and against it until Thomas said "I don't a problem with this" and then it was a complete 180. We were set up and ready to play in 15 minutes. The stage crew was very very professional, helpful, courteous, and downright nice. But for the rest of the night we were brow beat by Slim Shady who took every opportunity to tell us how horribly unprofessional it was for us to show up so late. We just bowed our heads like whipped puppies and replied with "yes sir, of course sir, anything you say sir". We knew he didn't want to hear about the drama that caused our late arrival and there was nothing worth arguing about since WE GOT TO PLAY A SHOW WITH THOMAS DOLBY! Besides which, it gave the whole night an even more exciting edge to it since we came >< this close to not playing a show with Thomas Dolby. Now when our grandchildren, and our grandchildren's grandchildren tell of this tale it will be a tale of truly epic proportions. I was so high on adrenaline (couldn't drink a wobbly pop with the rest of the gang because of the meds I'm on. Pete was wishing he refrained from that one last wobbly pop which just goes to show how hard it can be to judge since he only had two during Thomas' show and one in the tour bus afterwards) that I had no choice but to gather the video and photos of the show and put them together for Alloy's viewing pleasure. The cool part for me was not only getting to play with Thomas (which was a teenage dream come true) but later running into a very very pretty gushing fan in a Tim Hortons in Etobicoke. She told me many times how cute she thought I looked too which certainly made my heads swell. Pete could have done well without that part of the story but for me it was icing on the doughnut. Man, it's 4pm the next day and I'm still all wiggly with excitement. What a night! Crackers ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V12 #146 ****************************