Hello all Jamie Richards Band Friends and Fans. John here with the latest road blog. I apreciate all of your patience with the road blog as some of the staff here at Last Call Touring have been under the weather.
It has been a week of exciting and unusual events on the road with the JRB. This past weekend we played at Midnight Rodeo Amarillo on Friday and Rockett Club in Rockett, Tx on Saturday.
Thursday 10-22-09
Bus Call was in Ft. Worth for Friday at 7am. Jamie and I decided to go down to Ft. Worth on tonight. We were back in the Eagle this weekend and after loading the bus we took off for Ft. Worth around 11pm. We arrived in Ft. Worth a couple of hours later and went to sleep so we could get an early start.
Friday 10-23-09
Bus call was at 7am. Most people in the music business have never experienced 7am before. It was cool on the drive up there and the Eagle was low on the heat. I don't know why, it always seems to have plenty of heat in the summer. It wasn't that bad. After a lovely lunch at a local Pizza Hut, we arrived at Midnight Rodeo around 2pm, loaded in and soundchecked. Jamie had a Radio interview at 5pm. (We would like to send a special thank you out to the staff of KAT Country 101.9 for playing Jamie's music). The show began at 11pm. Jamie and the band put on a great show. If you haven't heard the new music you need to get out to one of the shows. Jamie has started playing some of the songs that will be on the new album. After the show, we loaded out and spent the night on the bus.
Saturday 10-24-09
We rolled out of Amarillo around 9am. After dropping the band off back in Ft. Worth we headed to the Rockett Club. As we were pulling into the parking lot, we accidently pulled the bus into the side of the building. There wasn't much damage to the club, but the buses steering system failed due to the frame breaking. We arranged for a repaiman to meet us there in the morning so we loaded in and finished soundcheck. We always love the fans that come out to see us at Rockett and Saturday was no exception. Jamie and the band played to a hell raisin crowd almost without incident. There was one little bar fight. When you play the honky tonks, you know there is always that guy.
Sunday 10-25-09
The repairment showed up around 9am and began working on the bus. That afternoon after working for hours it was apparent that the bus would not be fixed. I called and arranged for a tow truck to meet the bus in the morning. Dean came back to the club and picked up the trailer off of the bus and took it home with him. Jamie and I hung out at the club for 106.9 The Ranch Radio live show. Our friend Rachal Stacy was performing.
Monday 10-26-09
The tow truck showed up around 9am and began to get the bus ready to be towed. There is a lot that has to be done to tow a bus. After a couple of hours, Jamie and I rode with the tow truck driver back to Denison and dropped off the bus.
Thanks to all our friends and fans for coming out last weekend. We will be in Houston this weekend. Hope to see everyone at the show.
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