Of bird Grammy's (exercise if cat delay let forums tough the gig lists over there, please contact him with your info... Drove to Cambrai from Amsterdam and spent too eating dinner opening act didn't play!! The crew dinner that was prepared for us was totally disgusting frogginess... and I can usually eat anything but this looked like Bangers and Mash after it had already been eaten and chucked back up... with Xtra onions... We refused to eat it and made the promoter pay for cabs and take us to eat at a nice hotel or we weren't going to do the show After having a Four meal of delicious Steak Au Poive and Pommes Frittes and some lovely asparagus and butter with a really impressive Blancmange for dessert, we made our way back over to the gig... this was the maddest I think I've ever seen Downey... the support act had no clue how to even get power onto the stage, much less turn on and operate the sound and lights as ALL the crew went to dinner... Our trip to Spain was highlighted by one of our trucks being damaged near Madrid... the truck was towed to the gig and we offloaded before the show... the first nite Madrid was televised LIVE to the entire country...it was all sold out... The promoter told us we could have whatever we wanted for crew food as he had made a bunch of money, we decided on steak and potatoes come dinnertime we were chowing down heartily till one of the Brits inquired as to the origin of the steak we were eating... upon finding out that it was indeed horse, most of the crew went off search of proper food while I rather enjoyed extra helpings of Cheval... this story is told often around wife's group of horse enthusiasts when they accuse me of not liking horses... I assure them that I really do them... with a bit of garlic butter on the side... On the second day someone discovered that drugstores Spain sold Mandrax over the counter! This almost brought the tour to a screeching halt... thank goodness for a day off... When it came time to leave Madrid for Bilbao we were forced to rent a local truck as a replacement had not arrived... It was what we refer to here the states as a stake truck... wooden fencing for sides and covered with a large tarp... We christened it the Cabbage Wagon as we had to clear several hundred lbs of rotten cabbage out of it to load our gear... Der Kabbage Vagen was sitting at the next gig waiting for us though and we finally got a replacement Barcelona... Spent two hours finding gig; Der Kabbage Vagen was late; Busted on loadout... There was a big GIANT on the ceiling of this place made with about fifty 20ft fluorescent light tubes... when we discovered that the promoter the stagehands had fucked off and left us with NO help to load the trucks, we were standing around grousing about it when SOMEBODY no one was REALLY sure just who ahem yelled out 10 pesetas to the first that can knock one of those fluorescent tubes out of that ceiling... at which point everybody on the crew launched a bottle at that it rained bottles fluorescent tubes for a couple of minutes... Donald's really nice boots he had just bought the day before were stolen from the dressing room that night as well... I remember him leaving the show his sock feet singing the line from the old Kenner Alan Toussaint I like it like that that went The Last Time I Was Down There I Lost Shoes... We went by the hotel on our way out of town picked up a driver who had brought us a new tractor unit for our damaged truck... while the bus was parked outside, several of the crew snuck into the wine cellars kitchens of the hotel stole a load of wines champagnes... not to mention about 10 lbs of Napoleon pastries... they were ever yummy... we had just been thru some days had the next one off all the lads were jolly the bubbly was flowing... I remember brushing teeth with Moet Chandon the next morning as we had more than we knew what to do with... barcelona friday 14 nov 1975 the unknown venue are a historic theatre from barcelona whin name is Casino L' alianca Poblenou. i'm present busted big neon and think that theatre not have any faul that they werw breaking this historical ligth. but now is a history theatre also that BOC crash this light. that they were breaking this historical light Rewind the way-back machine to November 16th,1975. I was just 18