James Montgomery Blues Band

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11 years ago

James Montgomery

Hey there, Today we are going on a little trip BACK IN TIME. I think we will go back to 1987, Are you there yet, can you smell it, most of all can you hear it, the music was great then, yah I can see you now. It all started one day when I was at the local Bar for some liquid lunch when a good friend tapped me on the shoulder, It was Richie he was a custom van salesman and always had a nice custom van to ride around in. He said, Do you want to go for road trip, I held up my drink in cheers with him we finished our drinks and hit the road.

We were off and running I asked Richie where we were going, he said to a wedding, whos, James Montgomery I was thrilled, he was getting Married to Barbra Holiday, she was a great singer. So we spent the night at his house, It was nice. the next day James had a gig, Cool I said. We drove them to the gig, It was the Music Inn outside and THE JAMES MONTGOMERY BLUES BAND was opening up for THE ALLMAN BROTHERS.We did the meet and greet thing on the Allmans tandom Bus,WOW was that nice, we all had our substance of choice to get ready to play, James went on first as we watched from backstage, that was cool but I could only see there backs so I went to the side of the stage and a big Gorilla came up to me and said where are you going, I said I want to go to center stage so I can get some pictures of James, all of a sudden, I had these two huge hands grabbed me under my armpits and plucked me off the stage and passed from one to another untill I was in front of James I made sure my camera was ready and started snapping pictures, I shot 3 rolls of 36 that day.

Well I got back on stage the same way I went in and the guy that held me for pictures was holding me for 1 hour and never let my feet touch the ground, than I get told that they were Hell's Angles, They got the Music Inn closed for a while, I guess they beat someone to death for trying to climb the fence. I had no problem with them, they were very nice to me, George, the first hell's Angle I met took me in any thing I wanted he got for me. Its all most sunset, James played Great and the crowd, 300,000 + there and the Allman Brothers are up now, now that's a great band, they played all the songs, man were they good. Now we are back stage and Richie went to the van to get some beer but when he reached into the cooler he cut his hand, some broke a bottle in the cooler and left it there, he came back with the beers and his hand with a towel around it. We just hanging, backstage, when Gregs wife, the super model, came over and tapped Richie on the shoulder and said, Get off stage now, your bleeding back stage, Ya Ya Ya we said and blew her off as a royal bitch. we stayed untill the last song and left, Remember we parked back stage so we got out fast and slow on the exit.

I will have a part two to this. BUT THAT'S ANOTHER STORY !!!!!