This video was originally released on The Marshall Tucker Band DVD "Live From The Garden State 1981". This concert was filmed on August 4, '81 at the Garden State Arts Center in Holmdel, NJ.
Here's story you may enjoy. When I got out of the Army, I travelled all over the country for a couple of years, and at one point I landed in Los Angeles. One night a guy I knew told me Marshall Tucker was gonna do a surprise set at the Whiskey and asked me if I wanted to go. We went, the band rocked, and after the show, he told me that Toy Cladwell - the founder and lead guitarist of the group was his cousin, and he said he was gonna go back stage to say hi, so of course I tagged along. I ended up bullshitting with Toy and he asked if I wanted to go on the road with the band. I of course said yes, but couldn't leave right away with them.
Two days later I hitchhiked to Albuquerque and jumped in with them as they went farther north and west. I worked as a roadie and gopher for the band for six weeks - maybe one of the best summers of my life. Sleeping in the back of a UHaul box truck, getting high and gettin' laid - it was a fuckin' pisser of a time.
Flash forward to this show - I was there. Before they finished their encore, I weaseled my way back stage and hooked up with one of the roadies - guy named Geogie-Porgie who actually friggin' remembered me from that summer nine years prior.
He got me backstage, where I ran in to Toy again and he remembered me too! We had a coupla beers together, but I hadda split. I'd left my then-girlfriend out in the audience. Suffice to say when I told her what had happened she was REALLY pissed. That was our last date.
Great memories...
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Do you listen to music on your computer?
This is the speaker system I got for Christmas.
What an amazing sound. Take a look here.
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