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Here's Dave doing what he does best ... looking good while relaxing. Just kidding, because Dave is a great road manager and friend. Nobody does it better when it comes to schlepping around us prima donnas. Dave has a disposition that is unique in this business, allowing him to "roll with the punches" better than anyone I've ever known. |
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We
were in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, when the planes hit the WTC
towers, the Pentagon, and crashed in Pennsylvania. Driving
to Chicago, we waited to see what would happen with the
airline industry. After about five days, we began finishing
the rest of the tour the old fashioned way ... by tour bus.
We traveled into Ohio, back tracked up to Michigan, back to
Ohio, then down to Nashville and over to Kinder, Louisiana.
After performing in Kinder, we got back on the bus and
headed to Houston to fly home to our individual destinations
the next morning.
That
was the first time we had been on a plane since the
terrorist incidents. The airport looked amazingly bleak and
empty that morning in Houston as all America stood together
in a somber, tentative posture. I went there two hours
early, as the media suggested, but waited at the boarding
gate for an hour and 45 minutes. The airport was reminiscent
of a ghost town, and the new security measures were in the
first stage of just being implemented. Over the next few
months we would find that airport security was painfully
"un-standardized," varying greatly from airport to airport.
Still, I am very proud of the continued effort being made by
everyone to make all flights secure and
uneventful.
This
is basically an unfair photo. It seems that the only time I
get a picture of him is when he's in the middle of working.
Matt has a 100 things going at once and CAN talk to you, but
he does so by delegating minimal brain power ... as to not
lose his train of thought. He has to keep his "sheet"
together. It's just the nature of the beast. In this picture
his brain was already on stage or at the main P.A. mixing
console, coming dangerously close to only giving me "ear
service" without really hearing me. Who could blame him?
We're very proud to have Matt with us.
Right:
New crewman Henry Caruthers on his first gig with us in Lake
Geneva, Wisconsin, on 9/10/01 ... just one day before the
terrorist disaster.
Henry 10 days later
on 9/21/01, ready for the rubber room.
