Pat's Weekly Diary: 6/6- 6/8
We had another great weekend of work. Starting on Friday night we returned to Rock n Bowl. With the help of the Ladies of Leisure and the Jesuit class reunion. What a great crowd of people we had there. Thank you so much for sharing the night with us. Bright and early Saturday morning we were in Lafreniere Park for the Epilepsy Awareness of America Crawfish Boil. "My God it was hot. I never dreamed it could get so hot. It's like Africa hot. Tarzan couldn't take this kind of hot" (Biloxi Blues) Unfortunately it was so hot there were not a whole lot of people out. Some how we were able to separate ourselves from the reality of the situation (as usual) and carry on to play the three hour gig. Sunday evening we were actually in the Superdome. The event wasn't on our Calendar Page. Turns out earlier in the week we got a call "are you guys available to play on Sunday"? Yes!!! Yes we are. We were playing for the 85 year anniversary of the American Public Power Association. Originally it was planned to have us play in Champion Square but for the heat we were moved inside of the dome. We actually were on a stage on the dome floor playing to about 900 people. Fortunately a p.a. system was supplied for us as our small system would have really got lost inside there. We would sound like a transistor radio. A nice and easy gig. Not a whole lot of dancing. Mostly people from out of town. Over the years we've played outside of or around the dome for various functions. We've played in some of the smaller rooms inside the dome a couple of times. We filmed the Angela Hill Show in a studio inside of the dome. Geez that has to be over 30 years ago. And… I had to Google… there were two Women's Basketball teams in New Orleans in the late 70's to early 80's… the Pride and the Crescent City Voodoo. Sometime before David and Robert had joined the band the Topcats played on the dome floor during halftime of a couple of games. All in all it was a fantastic weekend for us. As always we want to thank you guys for your continued support. We hope to see you at El Paso in Metairie on June, 21.