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Hi Ted,
Thanks for sharing the stories from "the good old days".
I'm very glad you joined the group as everyone else is. I am very excited about
seeing you guys play live again - I intend to take a flight from San Diego to
Seattle if everything goes as plan. I would have stayed for the Portland gig,
but I have to play that night at the Casbah in San Diego.
I missed you guys the first time around (as I was living in Israel), so I'm not
gonna miss one of my favorite bands ever play live.
BTW - whenever I needed to teach a new drummer in my band what surf drumming
should sound like I used to make a little collection that always included your
version of the Godfather team and Downshiftin'.
Like the rest of the So-Cal residents I wish you could come our way, but I think
we all understand we have to appreciate that you play these 2 shows at all, and
just hope sometime in the near future something could be worked out.
See you in June,
Ran
The Sand Devils
> Thanks Gavin,
> I remember that well. I think we did 2 sets of New Years shows in a
> row there. It all came about because a friend of ours from Portland
> moved to Hailey to be a house painter to the rich and famous. He gets
> the gig painting the interior of Demi's 1800s gingerbread Victorian
> that she has purchased as her new "doll house". Literally. She bought
> the house to showcase her doll collection and so her daughters can
> play in it. So he's painting and listening to our first album on the
> boombox and Bruce Willis comes in and starts asking our friend about
> the music. Pulp Fiction was just out, so Bruce is all hot on the
> Surf/Instrumental thing. He actually paid us very well, put us up,
> and gave us free ski passes for two days of skiing. Not bad at
> all.
> We never gave a second thought to the cover charge-we thought
> everybody in town was a millionaire anyway and that no one "cool"
> would ever know we played there. Bruce was pretty nice for a celeb,
> he gave us Cuban cigars after the show and took us downstairs to his
> sanctum sanctorum in the basement of the club. There were all of
> these TV monitors showing the action on the floor of the club from all
> of these different mini security cams. Since the show was over they
> were
> playing dance music, and he was manipulating the camera angles to
> zoom up
> rich girls' dresses and zoom in on their shakin' butts.
> One year the
> headliner was James Cotton and the next was Betty Wright (The
> Clean Up
> Woman-Stax). They were both great and super nice to us white surf
> boys. "Space", the organ player from James Cotton's band did Soul
> Pilgrim with us like it was meant to be done. In soundcheck we played
> two bars from it and he was like "ok, I got it", showed up that night
> and tore it up. The year we played with Betty Wright I had a 103
> fever the whole time and was puking before and after the set, but
> somehow held it together and hallucinated while we played. Afterwards
> she said "I saw you workin' out behind those drums." I felt better and
> was a little in love with her.
>
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