《In Review》Strange Night At The Tractor Store
Advertisement
While in St. Louis, after signing a recording contract with an up and coming Artist Management Corporation, we booked all over that area. Even across the Mississippi into Illinois and small college towns further east.
One weekend, we were booked in a west side St Louis County club called "The Showroom". Which was a converted tractor dealership.
The west side was growing fast into rural St. Louis County. Farmland was being bought for suburbs for this fast growing and wealthy area of the city. Lots of rich brats far from downtown entertainment.
Several clubs and bars had been vandalized. Some band's equipment had been stolen and thrown in the Missouri River from some bridge out there. Just for fun!
Club manager told us to set up and sleep on the dance floor Thursday night. "Guard my place and beers are on the house" he said. "I have enough beer for Friday night. But if I have less than 100 people and run out, I won't pay ya. I know what I have. I know how much 100 people drink."
"Ah, yeah, sure, well, we want to come back so No problem, we got ya".
"Oh, and back the bus up against the back door. They won't dare come in through the front. Cops patrol this busy street and they're always trying to catch the little assholes."
"OK? Sure."
The empty bus was backed up against the back door. Our packing blankets were put down on the floor. We drank a dozen beers or more and smoked a couple packs of Marlboros.
The huge plate glass front windows for what had been a tractor show room allowed a constant stream of car lights to shine in all night.
Earlier that day we scoped out the stage. The stage was a spacious wooden floor with large divits and huge nails drived into the drum area. We had to go buy a crow bar to pull the nails out of the floor where some new crazy ass band called Alice Cooper played last week.
Advertisement
We asked "What crazy chick nails down the drums to the floor?". "Sorry about the stage floor. Cymbol stands kept falling over, so they all nailed stuff down not just Alice Cooper. Haven't gotten around-the-clock to fix that yet."
"No chicks" he said. "All guys. He changed his name to Alice for some crazy reason. They're gettin big now out west. They're on their way to the east coast, booking for travel money at small places like mine. People like weird shit ya know."
"Well, I guess we're just not that weird after all." I laughed.
"That's good, they were a mess but good showmen." He left us alone there then.
About 4:00 am we heard glass breaking from outside the locked back door. When they couldn't get in they broke all the windows in our empty bumble bee bus.
What a night!
After removing the nails, we got a 4 foot by 8 foot piece of 3/4 inch thick plywood to level the floor for my drums. St. Louis was a different world for sure in 1971.
Friday night was great and we did get paid but we never booked the tractor showroom again! Too many windows!
True story, I swear to god.
Advertisement
- In Serial72 Chapters
The Court of Souls?
Author's Comment: I was asked about reading my work on other sites. The answer is simple: Currently I am not active in any other networks than royalroadl.com. Only here, I correct mistakes and errors. If you read it anywhere else and have to pay for it, or have to deal with an annoying amount of advertisement, You Are Being Betrayed. You would do good if you make other people in that network aware of it. This is a free project of mine for the purpose of having fun. And if people try to make money with it you shouldn't bother visiting their website. The only one whom I actually allowed to have my work on his website is Armaell who invested the time to compile them into pdf. (http://armaell-library.net/author/andur) ——————————————————————————————— Reading Order of the Multiverse-Books ——————————————————————————————— What do we talk about tonight? ~“How about a story?”~ Fine by me. Which story? Hopefully a good one. ~“There was once a lonely child in a world filled with myths, gods and demons. Only power counted there and the weak were worse than cattle. A world where survival of the fittest ruled.”~ Was it strong then? ~“No, but the child had a power. One that made him stand between light and darkness. Nothing could escape him, so he was shunned by his people.”~ What did he do? Did he fight his fate? Did he hide his power? What was it? ~“Oh, he fought. He fought a lot. And no thing could escape his power. It was something that everyone had to live with.”~ So he became a hero and changed the world? ~“…”~ Tell me. ~“Nooo, that's not how the story goes. This isn't a story of a noble man, doing good amidst a sea of monsters. This is a story of a demon who was... kinder than the rest.”~ A kind demon? How boring. ~“I think it would be better if I tell the story, so you can judge for yourself.”~ So tell the story!
8 134 - In Serial71 Chapters
Eldritch Night
eBook Version Now available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited! Eldritch horrors descend from the sky to consume the world. Only a last-minute intervention by a mysterious Hegemony of Worlds saves Earth, albeit temporarily. Skills, levels, and battles with twisted monsters are part of the new reality the survivors will have to face. Augustus Finn is a young man driving home when the new system is imposed. He is thrown directly into danger as a twist of fate places him in an area designated, by the automated systems of the Hegemony, for the containment and disposal of eldritch energy - areas also known as dungeons. Without the aid of tutorials, or the orientation areas commonly known as "newbie zones," Augustus will have to make his own way to survive in unforgiven circumstances. He will face monsters, aliens, other humans, and his own darkness as he struggles to grow strong enough to face the countdown to the apocalypse. *** Author's Note: The rewritten version of Book 1 is here: https://www.royalroadl.com/my/fiction/19458
8 630 - In Serial6 Chapters
The Cranium Chronicles
A genious blacksmith is betrayed by his wife after falling ill, but is unbeknownst to her revived as a walking skeleton. Unable to get himself to exact revenge on her himself, he resolves to kill any man that dares to bed her. Trouble arises when the demon lord takes a fancy to her, and kidnaps her for his harem. Thus the late blacksmith embarks on a journey to kill the demon lord, with only his undead bones, and the mystical powers which he has awoken.Doot Doot
8 180 - In Serial8 Chapters
Hilarity of a Game-Breaking Player [Hiatus]
A powerful game-breaking solo player of a famous mmo game wakes up onanother world filled with your usual shenanigans of sword and magic.He is just hilariously broken and null of all common sense that extreme forms of hilarity ensues.Will the world ever be okay?Synopsis:Solo Player Jack Adams is unknowingly sent to another world.He discovers that he is the same character as of a famousmmo game he played. Jack decides to travel and explore his new andunknown world. This is my first story and is thus an experiment. I don't mind some criticism but don't be harsh.
8 146 - In Serial69 Chapters
YT Promotes
We promote the best books.Wattpaders, don't wait outside, hop in and read these amazing books by wonderful authors. This collection is the Exclusive Collection of Books that we promote.An encouraging step for our lovable authors and a lovely chance to get new books for you to read.
8 266 - In Serial12 Chapters
Hello, I'm Candace, but you can call me Kandake. I'm a literature and non-fiction writer who has a passion and belief that art imitates life. A Sound Mind is meant to represent the existence of such in the eeriest of ways. From spirituality to crime to cults to history and sex. There are pictures in it too to back up the factual yet shocking details of said story. I'll say it's up to the reader if they deem my chapters worth a read and I sure hope it is. I hope you enjoy A Sound Mind as much as I enjoy writing it.
8 72
Prev Chap
Next Chap
Chap List
Boy
Girl
