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1. Right up there was the original Blue Ox Band's finale April 1979 at The Blythe County Fair. No offense to the good citizens of this remote desert town on the border with Arizona, but your county fair was like an episode from a bad science fiction story. Blue Ox Band members had been traveling the desert highway between Los Angeles and Phoenix in the weeks leading up to this gig and we would routinely stop at Blythe's own local oasis… McDonald's. They put our picture up on the restaurant wall announcing the upcoming county fair. We got a big kick out of seeing our band picture way out there in the middle of nowhere. I think we should have taken that as warning.
Not only was this gig an ignominious end to a once proud band, it was made all the more strange by the fact that we followed a hypnotist who had just mass hypnotized a good portion of the audience. You talk about a tough act to follow! After the hypnotist
exited the stage and we started playing, we had all these strange fair-going
people walking up on the stage like zombies from 'The Night of the Living Dead'.
Add to that we had an acquaintance filling in on drums who claimed he was the
Second Coming of Gene Krupa...Not. Corn dog eating, hypnotized desert
zombies, my beloved Blue Ox Band was playing its last gig, AND we sucked!
What a very sad and weird gig.
2. The Thirds closing for Spyra Grya at the Tralfamadore Café,
Buffalo 1982. Buffalo's new, international jazz/fusion superstars come
home to play for the hometown elite. The management was well...
