here is a little story.....

Well we stayed in the same hotels as the band during the summer of 82 thanks to boulder Dave greenberg who would let me and my gurl sleep on his floor...............one of the most generous heads ya could know for the whole tour

well after the alpine valley shows of 08-07 and 08-08-82 we stayed at the interlaken lodges for the night and during some of the day off

a huge resort with a hotel and condos for rent on the lake/golf course

so of course while the dead are staying in the hotel part.... dave has secured a whole condo for the regular crew and the regular stragglers...what a scene ( another story entirely )

We did see the boys all on and off during the tour and we always said "HI BRENT" to bobby when we saw him just to help him keep his ego in check hee hee


We were late leaving the condo that day for the FAMOUSIOWA CITY FIELD HOUSE SHOW on 08-10-82 ,due to something about a few cops , a lot of hippies and a kitchen table covered in marijuana

anyways better late than never we hit the road finally for iowa city ,unscathed

haveing no idea where Dave was or where the band was staying for this LAST SHOW OF THE tour due our
tardy and rather hectic departure pretty frazzled from the road and a good long days drive
from alpine

we hit iowa city and pull into the first hotel we see ,the KNIGHTS INN

i leave my 3 other travelers in my yellow 73 VW squareback, covered at this point on the last legs of 2 tours ,both spring and summer,with about 100 stickers up and down the sides and bumpers(remember?) and head on into the bar at the knights inn to scoff some to go coffee and see about directions towards the campus

for a little impromptu parking lot crash scene and we can wake up at the show tomoorow in the sun and unshowered YUM YUM or so we had voted in the car

inside now the bar is yer basic iowa hotel bar straight out of something between twin peaks and blue velvet complete with soft red lighting and sparkles and a real cheesy piano player on the lit stage playing along for his partner a blonde with the sparkely dress and really heavy on the blue eye shadow and dark roots and she was probably a real looker a decade or so ago and if my memory serves they were finishing up with their rendition of FEELINGS and getting ready to segue into MACK THE KNIFE i mean this was as good as bill murrays lounge act during the GOOD OLD DAYS of saturday night live i am definatley living fear and loathing in IOWA here~~~~~~~when i hear some guy laughing at the other end of the bar i mean laughing HAWWW HAAW HAAAWWWW you know the one i mean yup PHIL FREAKIN LESH
is enjoying a heiniken and the lounge act !!! i am like frozen hey phil ! great tune huh!!!????? feelings whooa whoaa feelings feeelings@@@@....... suddenly i am forgetting about the iowa state u campus and am highstepping to the front desk uhmmmm do you have a dave greenberg here????bam !!!! we found it !!!! out to the car and a few profesional floor crashing minutes later packs and all scurry past the front desk to the welcome confines of the floor of a hotel room in the KNIGHTS INN sharing a little of Mr Fatty with dan healy and harry popick and dave and

what a fucking scream.