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| There
was an outdoor
music-sex-booze-and-drugs festival, called the Odee Festival, in the
Spring of '75, and we
were contracted to play there three nights, for, I think, $1200.
So we did, even while there was frost forming on the stage. The
conditions were miserable; we had to sleep on the bus, or make friends
with someone who had a tent, and there were
no showers. Now Doug Kershaw was the "headliner" act for this festival, and he was to be paid $3500 for ONE set. He came rolling in in his REAL bus, one of those big-time Nashville-recording-artist rigs. Kershaw visited our poor little bus and jammed a little with Billy, who "cut" him pretty good. Then came Saturday night, time for Kershaw's show. He got up on stage with his band, played a couple of numbers, broke some strings and ruined a bow or two, and quit after about a half hour. Afterwards, a booze-fueled angry mob tried to tip his bus over. They didn't succeed, but it sure was rockin'! Anyway, Kershaw got paid and we didn't. |
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