Ilmo smokehouse biography of nancy

On our way to a gig in Burlington, Iowa I happened to look out the driver’s side window and there was the trailer that was supposed to be behind us rolling along beside us. The next thing I knew there were wheels and metal flying every direction and our equipment bouncing all over the highway.

We had a caravan of fans traveling with us in their cars but they didn’t even notice the catastrophe and drove on by. Finally they realized we were nowhere in sight and came back to find us. We loaded everything we could in their cars and made it to the gig.

Ilmo smokehouse biography of nancy

That time my sax wasn’t quite so lucky and I had to borrow one from a high school band student. Fortunately, our P.A. system and most of our amps were those Kustom Naugahyde quilted jobs and they didn’t even get a scratch.

It was as though they were made for bouncing down the highway end over end. The band should have done an endorsement for Naugahyde after that incident.

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