I once worked sound for a show in memphis at Handy Park. The featured act was Don McMinn. he was great, played a lot of his blues solos on a lap steel, he had a couple of his kids in his band. Anyway at the end of the day as we had the 40 ft truck loaded at the side of the ampitheater and were ready to drive off, here comes a stumbling Don Mcminn brandishing what appears to be some kind of pistol/small shotgun under his shirt at us, like he was robbing a licquor store, hollerin and cussing that no one was leaving until he got paid! And if we tried to drive off he was going to shoot us! Of course we weren't the promoters or anything and had nothing to do with that, but who's going to argue with some crazed musician threatening you with what appears to be a deadly weapon? his sons looked embarrassed but what could they do? Eventually someone got to Don and must have told him what he wanted to hear, because he stopped pointing that thing under his shirt at us, in fact he just casually pulled it out and - you guessed it - it was his lap steel he had been using all day! I guess we were lucky that thing didn't accidently go off =)...
Just thought i'd share that.
Also when we were doing Dylan's rehearsals one year in memphis we werent allowed to mention the gig or place to anyone, and were under orders to refer to the act as "The Bucky Baxter Experience" heheh
Eric[This message was edited by Eric Myers on 22 January 2003 at 02:33 AM.]
