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Slam tour diary 6/6/1990 Houston, TX. Ah, yes! our gig at Fitzgeralds, I remember it like it was 30 years ago….which is to say, not at all. Generally, something really good or really bad has to happen for me to remember individual gigs. Some are stamped on my brain and some have just dissolved. FansContinue reading “Slam Tour Diary: June 6, 1990. Houston, TX”

6/7/1990 Slam Tour Diary. ….And we have another day off for the grueling 2.5-hour drive to Austin! Funny, I don’t remember us telling our booking agent that we only wanted to play on even-numbered days. Tomorrow: our Roadie gets involved and do I meet one of my bass-playing heroes? Maby, Maby not….

Slam Tour Diary 6/8/1990 We actually arrived in Austin the afternoon before the show and our roadie, Nic Close, immediately disappeared to join friends at a swimming hole outside of town and we won’t see him again until it’s time to load into the gig at Liberty Lunch. The rest of us look for aContinue reading “Slam Tour Diary: June 8, 1990 in Austin”

We had played Dallas once before in 1988, at a club that had lost its’ liquor license the night before for serving minors, making it the *most* popular place in Deep Ellum that night, an area where people go to drink and hear music, so our expectations were pretty low coming into the show, andContinue reading “Slam Tour Diary: June 9,1990 in Dallas”

We’re on the highway out of Dallas, happy to be heading west. So far, we hadn’t seen any signs that being on a major label was helping. With Homestead, the frustration was that the records were rarely in the stores where we played. Now, there were lots of copies of Slam in every store butContinue reading “Slam Tour Diary: June 10, 1990. Last-chance gas…”

Today, we complete the two-day drive, arriving in town late after a frustrating day on the road. We have discovered that the van accident, back in Georgia, had damaged the radiator, causing the engine to overheat if you turn on the A/C, which is a bit of an issue while driving through the desert inContinue reading “Slam Tour Diary: June 11, 1990. Limping into Phoenix.”

We arrived in Phoenix the night before and before we head off to our rooms, Woody, our tour manager/soundman, tells us that he knows of the best Mexican restaurant in town that he ate at with Camper and he insists on taking us there for lunch the next day. We are always up for aContinue reading “Slam Tour Diary: June 12, 1990 Phoenix”

According to Jeff’s Diary, we drove all through the night after the Phoenix gig to get to LA, something we would do occasionally when we were especially motivated to get out of a place. It was also better to drive the van at night because it was overheating on the regular. One other incentive wasContinue reading “Slam Tour Diary: June 13, 1990 Overnight drive to LA”

We are in Los Angeles and the gig is at The Roxy, a historic rock club on Sunset Strip, a big step up from our only other LA gig at Club Lingerie. The list of bands that have played at the Lou Adler-owned venue is amazing, starting with their 1974 opening weekend featuring Neil andContinue reading “Slam Tour Diary: June 14, 1990 Los Angeles”

Today, we are headed down the coast to San Diego for a show with our old pal from Camper Van Beethoven, Jonathan Segal. We are also excited because we got the radiator on the van fixed and, AND, it’s Jeff’s Birthday today! The Kid is turning 25 and when we arrive at the club there’sContinue reading “Slam Tour Diary: June 15, 1990 San Diego”