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Hey, it's Bob Pickett. We
are on our way to the legendary Broken

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Spoke. Come on, let's get
out the truck and head inside. And

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damn you're proud of it. Come
on, it's going side, getting ready

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for another Tale from the Broken Spoke. Welcome back, and we got some

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stories for you today. It's Tales
from the Broken Spoke. I'm Bob Pickets

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sending to Willie Nelson Booth and my
friend mister Monnie Warden. Money. We

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gotta we're gonna have fun. Today
is already fun. Yeah. Would you

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like to introduce the guests and to
everybody who we have we have right here

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on Tales from the Broken Spoke.
Mister Leroy Eickler, a drummer, veteran

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of the Broken Spoke and famed award
winning George straight Buster. You get him

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where he needs to be, that's
exactly right. How long where he is

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today? There? It is?
Okay, I don't war about that.

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But also we need to say that
Leroy is an award winner. You just

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picked up a big award this year. It'll be January the twelfth in Nashville.

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And what was that award for being
the longest driver for the same artist

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of anybody in music history. Wow. Okay, and how many years is

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that? Forty one? So far? Forty one? You've been George Straight's

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bus driver for forty one years.
Next year will be forty two money.

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That's a lot of mileage right there, isn't it? Huh? God,

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I don't even want to think about
that. So when George graduated from a

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van to a bus, you with
a bus driver and still are I actually

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hit him up for a job driving
a bus before he even had a bus.

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Wow. Yeah. He was a
good friend of mine from well,

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everybody knows him, Johnny Lyons and
coy Okay, he was playing George is

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playing the Hall of Fame over in
Brian one night, and he knew that

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I was working the group at that
time called Silver Creek, And uh,

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Johnny said, I got this guy
coming in. I think he's going to

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be pretty hot. And so he
said, y'all are off that night,

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why don't you come on over?
So I did, and I wrote up

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a little resume on a piece of
paper about now, that was just before

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or after you saw George? You
wrote up the resume four or four?

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Right? Four? I went to
the club to see him maybe you put

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on a napkin or him say wait
a minute, And I wrote that I

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had played with the guy by the
Jimmy Heap and the Melody Masters out of

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Taylor, Texas for five years,
which we used to play here at the

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Broken Spoke. Then I worked.
Then I left that band and went to

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work with the Moods of Country Music
for thirteen years, and we had a

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bus, and and Jimmy Heap had
a bus also. Then I went to

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work with a group called Silver Creek, and that we had a bus.

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Well, I go over to see
George at Hall of Fame in Brian,

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Texas. He pulling a trailer with
a van, and I had ridden the

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bands and the buses. You know
that I'd driven three different bands, three

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different buses. I said, I
think you're gonna be pretty good. I

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said, if you ever buy a
bus, I'd like a shot at driving

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it. So he said, I
actually had one ordered I said. He

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said. I said, well that
was the day of those four speed Silver

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Eagle buses. And he said,
I said, well, if this guy

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can't shift, he's up here grinding
gears, I'd like a shot at driving.

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I'm trying to do the math in
my head, which I'm terrible at.

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So this is about forty one forty
two years ago. You did this

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right, forty one years that would
be nine eight one, so unwound would

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have direcked be a hit. Correct. Yeah? Right? Well, now

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he hired this driver and he couldn't
shift gears. So George called me.

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He said, you're still interested in
driving that bus for me? I said

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sure, but I said, well, I got to give at least two

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weeks notice to this group called Silver
Creek that I'm playing with. So I

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it was one he called me,
and I was actually playing with Johnny Lion

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a pickup gig in Huntsville, Texas
with Johnny lyon. The phone rings over

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there. The club owner comes,
get Leroy, you have a phone call.

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I said, okay. So I
didn't know if it was my mother

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trying to get a hold of me
or what. So I went and got

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up the phone. He said,
hey, this is George straight. I

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said yes, sir. He said, you still want the job driving the

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bus? I said sure, so
he said kick me and Norma. Norma

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his wife wanted to go to Houston
to a k I k K radio deal.

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You know, back when they do
all that promotion. There was a

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key I KK radio yeah, and
uh, he said, we'll leave.

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We want to leave Monday. This
was Sunday night. I said where do

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you live? I said, yeah, I'll do it. I said where

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do you live? He told me
San Marcus. I said, well,

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duh, we're in St. Marcas. So he said it was Lacey Lacey

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Lane. I think. I said
it's a bus there. He said yes.

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I said, okay, I'll be
there. I said, I'll park

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my El Camino in front of your
bus and you come knock on the window.

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Okay, then wait a minute,
Wait a minute. So you are

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the bus driver, you've never driven
this bus, and you've got the most

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important person in the back of the
bus, and you're open. You had

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to be sweating. Well. But
also, I've got ken that lives on

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a lazy lane and it is a
one shot suburban. It's a beautiful,

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beautiful street, but there is no
spot to turn around. I don't know

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how. I don't know where driveway
or yard you passed through to do that.

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But it's your first time to drive
that bus correct and you're trying to

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make an impression. I driven the
bus quite a year A few years.

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But it is every bus the same
just about or no, they're all different.

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Wow. So anyhow, I said, well, come wake me up.

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I'll be in sleeping my old Camino. So he come knocking on the

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window at eight o'clock, I'll crawl
in the bus. Forty Virgin Norma went

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to Houston and I come back and
I've been with him ever since. Wow,

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that's fantastic, man, that's a
heck of an AUDITIONE Have I ever

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heard one? He could have been
desperate, I don't know, paid off

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well. But also you know,
it's like what I know. You know,

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I don't know George, but I've
been around him a few times because

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he's. One thing everybody knows about
George trade is he is so gracious to

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songwriters that have written hits for him. He knows that's where his songs come

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from. So he's always treated my
family like he's known us one hundred years.

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But you know one thing that that
I know from the people around him,

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and it's the exact same thing that
I've always heard from the people that

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worked with Elvis is they said Elvis
and they said George, it's they're not

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real keen on new people and they
like their team, and their team's great.

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And you look at all those people
that have been with straight picking with

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him in the band. Wait,
wait, there's more to this, because

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you're not gonna leave. We've got
a lot of people in that band,

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right, That's exactly right. And
that's my point is is just so just

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once you get used to somebody being
around, and Leroy drives a bus and

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it works, and you you know, and also every artist I've ever known,

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myself included, we're a little bit
superstitious. And it starts, you

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know, Lero starts driving for him
and he gets more and more famous.

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Why why would you monkey with that
math? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,

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yeah yeah yeah. If it's not
broken, I'll fix it. Well.

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And also, you know, it's
until you go out on the road

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with a bus, you don't it's
not just a bus driver. It's a

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it's a peacekeeper, it's a it's
a navigator, it's a it's a guy

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who's got his first job is driving
George to Houston. And we know what

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Houston traffic is like. Well,
but it's all that, but it's also

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you know, it is snowstorms,
it's hurricanes, it's everything. And you

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just got it. You have to
drive that. You want a bus driver

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that just is this even keel?
Nothing spooks some tornado warning, that's all

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right. We'd be just fine.
Never had bad weather. We'll driving the

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bus, my gosh, for years. Come on, tell me what's the

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worst one. I would probably think. We were in Minnesota and we went

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from Minnesota to Fargo. First time, this old boy driving as many years

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I had ever been in with a
blind I was blind. You couldn't stop

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the bus because you'd get run over. So we just you couldn't see six

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feet in front of you, so
you couldn't stop because sure enough somebody had

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to run into the back of you. That was a tough one. Uh

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yeah, it was. It was
tough. And I never heard of the

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thing called meltdown. What's meltdown?
Well, anytime I hit the city,

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we would always stop and my co
driver, we'd always stop and fill up

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the bus for fuel whenever we hit
town. Sort of waiting to get out

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of town to the show, you
know. So we pull up to a

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Petro truck stop. Sit there,
I went in fuel, the bus come

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back out and the tires are just
warm enough to cause a meltdown. For

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under your tires. So we sit
there, put it in gear, and

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then you said, you just sit
there and just you just melt it down

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so you can't move. So the
guy came out and put some sand on

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the tires, got us going,
and then I went straight down to the

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shop and had him put chains on
the bus. Yeah, it's uh,

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but I have a theory now I'm
never going to chain up a bus.

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If it's bad enough to chain up, you don't need to be moving.

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Well, that's good, you don't. You don't. Well, look what

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happened to Shanaia Twain's bus, I
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It's unbelievable. I mean, you
don't put that thing into Earl's ship and

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get it out in two weeks.
She rolled it on the side. Well,

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I know one time we were going
through Lizardhead Pass there in Colorado and

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we had to put chains on the
bus. And it was you know the

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thing about when you buy a chain
for your bus, they expect you to

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pay for it in it right then
it's expensive and and uh then the guy

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said, the guy sold me the
change. He said, you know it's

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gonna ruin your tires, but it's
the only way to get through lizard Head

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passed, and it was, you
know, a couple of grand and chains.

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So anyway, so we did.
It was the only way to make

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the gig, you know. And
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They ride outside to tell you ride
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And the guy said, that old
boy at the bottom of the mountain,

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tell you got to buy new tires. I said, yes, sir,

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and he goes, I bet you
he's gonna sell them to He goes,

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Son, you don't have to replace
those tires're just fine. I just

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immediately felt like a jackass. Oh
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hill and he's gonna Thank God.
When they started using cables instead of change,

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yeh yeah, they didn't much of
anything up. How many buses had

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you gone through driving George? How
many? Oooh? I think it was

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a nineteen seventy two Eagle when I
started with George and we were all on

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one bus, and then eighty four
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Model ten Eagle and then we got
a I'm trying to remember this because I've

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got to have this for their award
show in Nashville. Okay, all right.

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Uh. Then I think we bought
a Marathon Praivo back when everything was

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a forty footer. Then we got
a Neil Plan, a double decker nil

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Plan, which is they were made
in Lamar, Colorado. I love that

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bus because it handled so that gone
good. Double decker Yep, yep it

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was. It was strange, but
it was a cool bus. But he

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didn't have a slide out, and
then the company wasn't gonna When you say

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double decker, I'm thinking like an
old greyhound bus, those old double decker

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Greyhound buses that used to have.
It's the driving compartment was like if you

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were this bus was actually forty five
foot from tail to the very front windshield,

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but that was above the driver,
like if you were sitting in in

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a suburban. Okay, got you
so, and you had doors on each

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side just like a suburban for the
driver area. Well, I had a

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coffee maker down there, I had
everything I was. You had your own

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little nook down there. That's kind
of nice. It did a lot.

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Anyhow. Then we then we bought
a Pravo H three, then another Pravo

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H three, then another Praivo H
three, and uh, actually we just

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ordered a brand new bus. Now, okay you say that, but I

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just saw when this bus is brand
new and that was just about what three

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years? Yeah, come on,
and the way that George and you guys

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tour. Now. You don't have
a lot of miles in this bus,

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do you? Sixty four thousand miles? That's it and it's time for a

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new one. It must be time
to change the oil or something like that.

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Yeah, yeah, what what's why? What's the big thing now with

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buses? I mean, what's the
big difference between this new bus and the

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bus you have now? Oh?
You know he puts what whatever you want

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you're in a bus nowadays you can
get Yeah, I mean like the one

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we have now has won two,
three, four, five, six,

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seven TV's in it, eight counting
the one in the bay down below.

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But it's it's nothing like the old
days where he had all the bunks on

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the bus at all, is it. No? This particular bus has the

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state room in the back and three
three bunks you know, for me and

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a co driver and an extra one. Always hear that when Willie came back

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home that he would rather sleep out
in the bus than sleep in his house,

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just because it was the bus was
home. Hag was the same way.

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Really yeah. Well, and also
it's like it's there, like George

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does not get a hotel room.
Vegas is the only place he ever gets

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a hotel room. He had enormous
stay on that bus, but why not.

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Yeah, it's got everything in it
a man or a woman would need.

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And you've got your own. You've
got like built in security. Yes

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on the back are you saying that, leroy security? Yeah, well you're

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you're the built in security. But
also and when God forbid, should something

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happen, you can just started up
and drive. That's right. Oh,

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you're not going to be hassled also
if you stay on the bus. But

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I'll say also about you know,
the thing been my experience with country fans,

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there is so little hassle. Really. They want to meet you,

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they want to shake your hand,
they want to tell you what your music

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means to them, and they really
don't want much more than that, you

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know, have their picture made in
an autograph and then they you know,

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it's really a beautiful relationship that I
know that it is unlike any other in

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other genres. It's like a big
family. Let's get back to the to

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the the Pure Country Days. Are
you in that movie? Yes, sir,

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I was driving the first lead bus
and those we had two eagles on

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that shut that deal. Shoot,
I was in the front bus and you

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guys film that mainly up and Fort
Worth, right, Yeah, because I

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remember getting the call to come up
there and watch you guys. But back

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then it was live radio and we
couldn't really get off the air and go

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up there and see it. Wow, that's so cool change. Yeah,

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yeah, yeah, that was a
cool experience. Yeah. My father in

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law, Brandy's dad, he's past
now, but he wrote the second song

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in that movie. He wrote baby
Your Baby. Really, yeah, my

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father in law did. And when
Brooks, that the boy our son you

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met when he was little, he
was tiny. His grandpa wrote a hit

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for George, and his daddy wrote
a hit for George, and he just

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one day he asked my mother,
He said, what did what did you

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write for George? Straight? He
just thought everybody wrote songs for George.

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Wow. Yeah, wow, you
wrote a pretty good one. You and

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Bruce wrote a pretty good one.
Yeah. But you know, baby your

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Baby. I always always thought that
was I'd had a great beat. Yeah,

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saw it, and I still think
that that's a better soundtrack than Urban

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Cowboy. Oh yeah, absolutely no. Well yeah, and that was the

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first Tony Brown record, and that
one that kind of I mean, George

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was already George, you know,
but Pure Country took him to that stratus

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fere. Oh yeah, you know, it took him to stadiums, and

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not that he wouldn't have gotten there, but that's what put him there.

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Leroy, And you said you played
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that? I started in sixty four? Yeah, the year they opened.

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Is this place changed any Not much
air conditioning, That's what every picker says.

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In the day, buddy, those
those walls opened up out there and

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you did not have a c here. But back then, this was the

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outskirts of Austris was actually in the
country. Back then, that side of

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town. I've passed by this,
saying going to the drum shop before and

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didn't even realize that I was already
passed it. Oh because now because hidden,

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Yeah, it's hidden behind the big
buildings all the time. Being a

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picker, I mean I call all
players picks. He's a drummer, well

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he's he picked drums. It's like, you know, I got a musician.

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I'm a drummer, That's what they
said. Picker. When did you

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uh you know, because like for
us, you know, on up,

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it was always like, you know, if the bass player on the PA,

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you're gonna fire him or the or
if the guitar player on the van

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you were going. So when did
you get your bus license? And did

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you do that for stability in bands
or did you do that to supplement your

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income? Otherwise I did it for
the income. Yeah, And I'm still

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playing music now though. Oh yeah, tell the band now that you're with

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the I remember with a group called
the B Side Boys. We put over

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in Granger, Texas at the Cotton
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where they get the name the B
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David call I think, yeah,
David, I think is the one

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that came up with that name.
He can come up with some weird stuffs,

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man. Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, well it isn't

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you know, as a songwriter,
particularly back in the days of forty fives,

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if you wrote the B side,
B side pays the same as the

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A side. That's right. If
you buy a forty five, it's the

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same. Nickel whether you wrote the
hit or the B side. So thank

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god Vinyl is coming back. It
Fay's pretty good to be one of the

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B side boys. You know,
been there a couple of seconds. It's

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a great group. Okay, Now
we've had members of Ace and the whole

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band here, Tommy's been here.
But you actually helped. Well, you

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were a member of the organization before
some of the members of the Ace and

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the whole band. You brought some
people in, didn't you. I brought

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Rick McCrae, the guitar player they
call him the legend is a legend,

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he is, he's pretty good.
He's How did you know Rick, Rick

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and I were in that band,
the Jim Heap and the Melody Masters that

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played here. Yeah, then he
was. He and I were also in

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the band called Silver Creek, and
uh. I knew that George was going

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to change the guitar players, and
so he called me to the back of

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the bus. He said, you
know any pickers. I said yeah.

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He said, I'm gonna be hiring
a different guitar player. I said,

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I know the man. It's perfect, Rick, I said, Rick McCrae.

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He said, where's he from?
I told him? So we actually,

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and I'm gonna probably get this wrong, but we were doing a radio

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show in Connecticut or some way up
somewhere, way up north, and Rick

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didn't know these guys. They didn't
know Rick. George hired him on my

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word, my recommendation, and on
the way to I think it's Connecticut,

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Rix listened to cassettes of George's on
the way to the gig. In fact,

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at the gig and I've got it
on the what do you call the

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ascetate copy? Yeah, on stage
George introduces and on guitar Gary McCrae.

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Rick is so smooth, he's one
of the best. I told him,

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I said, Man, if I
could just see you move your hand once,

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it would make me feel so much
bad, just effortless. He's incredible.

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And I'd say, anybody that's listening
today, Uh, if you go

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to Rick McCrae's YouTube channel or Facebook
page, he just picks a lot and

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explains how he picks it. And
I still don't understand what he's doing.

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And I'm a musician. It's it
is so informative, and it's he's so

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inviting, and he's such a gifted
guitar player, and he's also you know,

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he can play anything, but it's
also it's the notes he doesn't play

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that make him so great. But
he can be he can do all he

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can do, all that show boat
stuff, but he plays what's supposed to

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be playing. Amen. There is
not one superfluous note he's ever picked.

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And he's just uh he is incredible
and and and an even better person of

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course, but yeah, just a
just a phenomenal picker. And I encourage

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people to go check out those two
channels online because who else did you bring

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to the band? Uh? Let's
see uh Gene Elders, the fiddle players.

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That all. Okay, okay,
now wait, do you ever need

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somebody for a band member? I
think you know who you're going to ask

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right here. Okay, Actually the
steel player. Whenever I was playing with

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Silver Creek, he and I were
roommates in Austin at the time, and

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I knew that we were going to
change, or George was going to change

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fiddle players. So this guy's name
is good good buddy man lives in Nashville

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right now Tony Paletta's I said,
Ben, you know they fiddle players?

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He said yeah, So he told
me and I called Jean and uh,

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And Geen came over. He had
been painting houses, you know, and

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painters close. He brings this a
little cassette. I take it to George.

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The rest is history. There boy
dang okay, and the other member

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there was our dear dear, my
dear dear friend, everybody's friend. Uh,

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Mike Kennedy, the late Mike Kennedy, late Mike Kennedy, great drummer.

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I was, Uh, I was
Ricky. Skaggs called me and wanted

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me to meet the bus because his
driver needed off for his waiting for his

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driver's son's waiting. So my wife
took me to San anton and I picked

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got on the bus with Gags and
san Antone. We went to Houston,

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played the show, somewhere in Oklahoma
played the show, went to Santa Anna,

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California, played the show, and
Kennedy was playing drums with Skags and

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Skaggs had the most kick butt band
in the world. Right, Oh yeah,

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tight band always had scary good anyhow, so I call, I told

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Kennedy, I said, dude,
I said, George, is I want

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to try out new drummers? I
said, George, your name of the

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hat? He said, well,
hell yeah. So George did it right.

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There was about five guys I think
that tried out for the gig,

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and whenever they did that old tune, their stands of Glass and they all

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got to play the same song,
which a very way to do it.

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They didn't there stands of Glass,
I said, and it is our next

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cat man. Okay, what is
it? Since you've been on the road

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this long, you really haven't seen
the crowd change that much. It's the

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same people that go to all the
concerts all the time. Age makes no

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difference. Yeah, it's all ages. I made five year four or five

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years old of one hundred and five, you know, been like that.

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Yeah, boys, it saying about
the legivity when you've got and I'm not

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poking fun, but you've got somebody
and that age group still out there performing

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and he's selling out the younger cats. To me, that makes me feel

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great because that is country music.
That is pure comfort. You know fun

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intended with the movie. Well,
and George, you know, he's pulling

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bigger numbers now than he ever has. He has big his biggest gates have

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been in the last five months than
anything he was doing in the early two

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thousands. And I tell you what
it is. It's country music. And

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also it's George Strait respects his audience. He loves those people, they love

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him. And what is so maddening
to me just as a fan, not

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as a songwriter. I'm not talking
about getting cuts. I'm as a fan.

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I'm a music fan. That's why
I started picking the guitar, because

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music speaks to me. You know. Is how dismissive, Uh, the

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industry has become to the fans.
It's like, if George Strait can pull

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eighty he and Chris Tableten can pull
one hundred thousand people at the drop of

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a hat part in the pun,
maybe those people would like to buy those

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records still and have new records to
buy. And uh, And I think

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it is just so odd that somebody
played George Strait's breaking attendance records that were

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set by George Straight before and and
yet he's not considered a viable radio act

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anymore. Well by whom these people
would love to hear a new George Straight

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hit? I would who? Now
when you played that here? What are

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some of the other bands that you
have actually seen out here on stage?

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Leroy and the Spoke, Yeah,
oh god, Country Ji groove you used

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to play here, which Benny MacArthur
who plays sight some old photos of Benning

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back there in the Tourist Trap museum, giant ees, the new notes and

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God, you can look on this
wall a out here. Please come to

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the spoke and look around. This
is like a museum. Have you ever

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had a chicken fried steak out here? Do I you ever had a chicken

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fried steak out here? Is a
pope Catholic? Yes? And you know

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what, I wish they would the
kitchen was open right now. I would

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love to have one. We'll be
here a couple of days, but it'll

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be fine. We have got a
uh, a pretty important benefit coming up

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that we want everybody to attend.
And I'm gonna let you tell the date

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and uh so we can get a
crowd out of talk about the auction and

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everything. Uh, it'll be We'll
be at the Cotton Country Club and Grader

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which school place great? Uh and
it's December the third. Gonna be a

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lot of music, gonna have a
lot of great auction items, one of

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them being God, I've already got
stupid money for it. And thank God

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for that a guitar that George and
Willie Nelson sign Now that right there,

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George Straight and Willie Nelson. You're
not going to find that now you're saying

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stupid money. How much of the
bid right now? For It's ten thousand

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and five d right now. Yeah, and that's before it even goes on

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auction. H that's priceless right there
right And there will be another one that

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George and Chris Stapleton and Little Big
Town signed on it, and a lot

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of George memorabilia. And there's gonna
be some great music group, a very

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hot Texas group called the Debonairs.
They're playing this playing with us that night.

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You talk about taking me back when
I first moved Offston, the Devanaires

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Man Kick Yeah, oh god.
And the band that I'm in, the

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B Side Boys, Kenny Ortz who
plays here at the Spot Boys, Kenny's

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here, I think Friday, I'm
not coming up pretty quick. I think,

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yeah, great guy, he's a
great guy, big heart. And

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uh Rick McCray is coming to play
some guitar, and uh Benny mack arthur

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is coming. I said, bring
your fiddle, yeah, And I told

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Rick because Rick g loves to play
fiddle too. We're gonna have Twin Texas

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fiddles out there. Oh heck yeah, I hate to I don't want to

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leave out any names. There was
a hot, hot group around here called

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Texas Pride and then they changed the
name of a Chance years later. Mickey

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Boris the drummer, he's going to
be there. I think a guy that

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I used to play with with the
Moods. I think David Roski will be

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there. Wow, you haven't heard
that name in a while while. Yeah,

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yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
And David Latimer, who was with

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Silver Creek. He's known David for
a long time. Yeah, he's down

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still living down there at Lockhart.
Oh boy. So this again is set

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for the fifth December the fifth,
and uh, please tell us the re

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and for the benefits. Okay,
yes, my wife had she went to

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see her mother in Arkansas and she
had to have a murder to see pacemaker

407
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put in, and she had some
prior health issues. So health insurance for

408
00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:19.960
me is stupid, stupid money.
So this is the kind of help pay

409
00:28:21.119 --> 00:28:25.640
down on the hospital bill because it's
in fact, I think she's going to

410
00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:29.519
go see your doctor. I hope
so, because he's amazing. Doctor z

411
00:28:29.680 --> 00:28:33.799
Leroy Parnell's son in law, Rob
Roy called us. Yeah, okay,

412
00:28:33.920 --> 00:28:36.759
that Ron got me hooked up with
him. This guy's amazing. Yeah,

413
00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:41.119
she has an apartment with him Friday, well, South Austin, and you're

414
00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:45.880
gonna feel much better. Guy.
The guy's amazing. That's what Rob Roy

415
00:28:45.960 --> 00:28:49.559
said. Yeah, yeah, the
boy Rob is Rob Really, doctor Z

416
00:28:49.880 --> 00:28:52.400
I think really saved my life.
You know about the past history, Yeah,

417
00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:55.880
of course, Rob. We were
shocked to hear you had a heart.

418
00:28:56.440 --> 00:28:59.119
There's a lot of people, but
Rob Roy Parnell is the one that

419
00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:02.000
kept telling me for you, no, you gotta go see this. He's

420
00:29:02.079 --> 00:29:03.799
married to my niece and thank god
I went. And let me tell you,

421
00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:07.000
Shannon's gonna be in good hands.
That's what Rob preached to us that

422
00:29:07.160 --> 00:29:11.359
night. He called us last week
and he said, I'm gonna get this

423
00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:15.359
set up for you good. So
he did, and she's going Friday right

424
00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:18.720
here to see your doctor. It
makes I tell you what, he's amazing.

425
00:29:18.920 --> 00:29:22.000
Yeah right, well not NDS And
also, I mean, you know,

426
00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:26.599
but that's what the whole deal is
about. You know. It's going

427
00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:32.000
to be lots of music, lots
of great items for for the auction Silent

428
00:29:32.160 --> 00:29:36.680
and live auction. One are the
hours you told us today. Doors that

429
00:29:36.839 --> 00:29:40.599
day are going to be open at
I think three o'clock. Music's gonna start

430
00:29:40.680 --> 00:29:45.599
at four, and who knows when
they're to end ten or later. That's

431
00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:48.400
great. But there's a lot of
music, a lot of great a lot

432
00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:52.000
of great friends of mine and Shannon's
and the we're heck, heck, you

433
00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:56.400
know we're all family out here.
Yeah, we really are. We really

434
00:29:56.599 --> 00:29:59.160
are. I mean, all these
guys said, oh yeah, I want

435
00:29:59.200 --> 00:30:00.000
to be a part of this.
I want to be a part of this,

436
00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:03.279
and he calls it, I want
to be a part of this.

437
00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:07.799
So that's what's It's just it's gonna
be great. It's gonna be fun.

438
00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:11.559
So I hope that everybody listening to
us will show up and it's going to

439
00:30:11.599 --> 00:30:14.720
go to a great cause. The
third and Granger text. My grandmother was

440
00:30:14.759 --> 00:30:18.799
born in Granger, Texas. Really, my great grandfather is buried in Granger

441
00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:22.480
textas well. Have you ever met
anybody from dime Box Texas? I had

442
00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:26.400
met a couple actually at a couple
of people. Okay, we're sitting right

443
00:30:26.519 --> 00:30:30.000
here with a guy from dyn Box
Texas, Leroy. The pride of dime

444
00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:34.440
Box text is there something named after
you in Diying Box. No still,

445
00:30:34.680 --> 00:30:38.200
I left there in fifty nine.
But actually I go back and I have

446
00:30:38.359 --> 00:30:45.000
played that SPJST Hall too, Yeah, several more times. The new owners

447
00:30:45.279 --> 00:30:48.720
they came in and redid that whole
club and it's a great hall. So

448
00:30:49.680 --> 00:30:55.079
remember the SPGST Hall in Round Rock. Oh yes, of course that was

449
00:30:55.119 --> 00:30:57.799
my introduction to country music when I
first moved to Austin. Back to the

450
00:30:57.880 --> 00:31:03.960
Devon Dairs. Y yeah, would
overflow that well, I think, you

451
00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:07.000
know, I think it's when the
Devon Airs won the the Tally contest and

452
00:31:07.039 --> 00:31:11.799
they got the record label with MGM
Records. Not MGM but Mary Tyler Moores,

453
00:31:11.880 --> 00:31:15.559
Yeah MTMTM. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, my goodness, that sounds

454
00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:19.720
that sounds rather the very uh.
But I will say the first time I

455
00:31:19.759 --> 00:31:22.480
saw the shots and the Chicken dance, it scared the heck out of me

456
00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:26.160
because we didn't have that in West
Sexas man, I was looking for the

457
00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:30.160
nearest exit. I thought that the
devil was going to spring up and grab

458
00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:33.640
somebody I know telling what was going
on. We showed up for soundcheck at

459
00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:37.119
that joint in Round Rock and I'm
I don't know, I'm nineteen, you

460
00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:40.920
know, and I got the wagon
ears just four piece band, you know,

461
00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:42.200
no, no, just kind of
more of a you know, the

462
00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:48.400
rock and thing. And old lady
came out and she said, y'all sound

463
00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:51.640
real good. And I said,
thank you, ma'am. And she said,

464
00:31:51.759 --> 00:31:55.839
uh, we're gonna need y'all to
do the Cotton Eye Joe about ten.

465
00:31:56.160 --> 00:32:00.079
And I said, well, uh, ma'am, we don't. We

466
00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:04.200
don't do the Cottonae Joel. We
don't have a fiddle player. She said,

467
00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:07.200
well, we're gonna need you to
do that at ten. I said,

468
00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:10.319
well, man, we don't.
We don't do that song. She

469
00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:17.640
said, well you have till ten
to learn it. Let me tell you.

470
00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:23.920
Did your wagoneers did the Cotnaighte Joe
and let me and she was right.

471
00:32:24.519 --> 00:32:29.279
They it was Saturday night. It's
the place is back. It's crazy.

472
00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:32.039
They were expecting the Cotton Eye Joe
at ten o'clock. And by gum,

473
00:32:32.279 --> 00:32:35.559
you know, our guitar player,
Goda Love Brent Wilson. He said,

474
00:32:35.880 --> 00:32:37.119
Ward, and I can pick that
on the guitar. We'll be all

475
00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:40.799
right, you know, the the
guitar, the guitar, yeah, yeah,

476
00:32:42.119 --> 00:32:44.880
yeh leroy. When it comes to
Uh. I mean, you've probably

477
00:32:44.960 --> 00:32:49.160
been more concerts than anybody. Did
you sit on the side of the stage.

478
00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:51.480
Do you watch all the shows all
the time, especially with the younger

479
00:32:51.559 --> 00:32:55.559
accident are opening? Uh? Uh. I'll go in very little to see

480
00:32:57.079 --> 00:33:00.559
George, because god, I've been
here forty one years. Yeah, but

481
00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:04.200
a lot of times I walk in
and like, I want to see Stapleton,

482
00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:07.160
which I had never seen. Staple
was amazing, isn't it amazing?

483
00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:12.119
It's like going to church and you
know, the last show was George,

484
00:33:12.359 --> 00:33:19.359
Willie h Kerry Underwood and Little Big
Town and I've got I've seen them all.

485
00:33:19.920 --> 00:33:23.880
Yeah. I went out with Kenny
Chesney for about five months one year

486
00:33:24.519 --> 00:33:30.200
back when Georgia took a little break. How was that? I can't talk

487
00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:32.839
about that one, Okay, okay, A little different atmosphere. No,

488
00:33:34.119 --> 00:33:37.680
No, Kenny is great. It
was a great camp. Great, took

489
00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:43.799
great four months or so. But
yeah, you didn't take George's bus on

490
00:33:43.880 --> 00:33:47.759
that with you, No, Kenny's
personal bus. Yeah, my goodness.

491
00:33:49.400 --> 00:33:52.559
This guy knows the stars. Well, he's driven for the stars. He's

492
00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:57.400
getting an award. Now. Did
you you remember when the Kenny and Tim

493
00:33:57.480 --> 00:34:00.480
McGraw thing up in Where was Buffalo? Oh? Yeah, were you there

494
00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:05.440
for that? I witnessed Wait a
minute, okay, is it okay to

495
00:34:05.519 --> 00:34:09.280
get the real story? Can you
tell us what happened so all we know

496
00:34:09.360 --> 00:34:15.159
about it? Is it one of
them took a deputy's horse, right,

497
00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:19.679
Kenny? Okay, Well, I'm
gonna let you tell the complete story.

498
00:34:19.719 --> 00:34:22.760
This is cool. I mean,
well, these deputies are out their horseback

499
00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:24.960
and there and Kenny, you know, being Kenny, he walked out there

500
00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:28.639
and for you know it, she
invited, but you want to ride this

501
00:34:28.719 --> 00:34:30.239
horse? So he crawls up on
it. Well, I think it was

502
00:34:30.320 --> 00:34:32.599
her. I could be wrong,
but I think it was her dad.

503
00:34:32.760 --> 00:34:37.280
This was one of the deputies.
Also, Kenny rides off from the horse,

504
00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:39.840
and boy, they chased him and
it was he has no idea.

505
00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:45.840
Huh no, No, there was
a post thing. And I'm standing in

506
00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:51.159
the front of of Tim McGraw's bus
talking to the driver, and we witnessed

507
00:34:51.159 --> 00:34:53.559
every bit of this. Why did
the press blow it up and make it

508
00:34:53.599 --> 00:35:01.559
a big deal because he denied that
the sure deputy, I mean denied that

509
00:35:01.719 --> 00:35:06.800
that that he was invited to ride
it. He he just thought Kenny grabbed

510
00:35:06.800 --> 00:35:10.719
the horse and took off, which
was totally wrong. Oh yeah, McGraw.

511
00:35:12.400 --> 00:35:15.760
Uh, he flew me first class
from Austin to New York. I

512
00:35:15.840 --> 00:35:21.480
think it was somewhere in New York
to be a witness to that trial.

513
00:35:22.280 --> 00:35:25.039
Well I went to trial. I
didn't know it went to trial. Well

514
00:35:25.119 --> 00:35:30.639
I got up there. McGraw rented
this cool little hotel. It's a real

515
00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:37.719
small, what do you call it, boutique hotel. And he never even

516
00:35:37.760 --> 00:35:42.599
called me. So he fooled me
back first class back home, but they

517
00:35:42.679 --> 00:35:44.920
never even called me as a witness. I never knew that you were up

518
00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:49.559
there when that happened. Oh yeah, You've seen a lot of histories back

519
00:35:49.639 --> 00:35:53.840
to the little driving little Very few
people know that I put the George W.

520
00:35:54.079 --> 00:36:00.719
Bush bus tour together. That I
have no idea. Yeah, yeah,

521
00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:06.519
I was. Uh, of course. We were releasing buses from Hemphill

522
00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:09.000
Bus Company up in Nashville at the
time, and and I know how all

523
00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:13.679
this campaign stuff works. Everybody always
has a bus, you know, for

524
00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:19.239
several bus So I was up there
one day and they were talking about the

525
00:36:19.559 --> 00:36:22.760
something they at least a bus to
some NBC or something like that, and

526
00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:24.679
I said, well, let me
see what I do here. So I

527
00:36:25.239 --> 00:36:30.199
actually took once again back in my
El Camino days. I drove to South

528
00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:37.159
aust where George W. Bush's headquarters
were for the campaign, yeah, in

529
00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:40.599
two thousand and So I went in
there like I knew what the hell I

530
00:36:40.760 --> 00:36:45.159
was doing, and I didn't you
convinced him. I walked in. The

531
00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:46.800
girls said, could help you.
I said, yeah, I'm here to

532
00:36:46.920 --> 00:36:52.440
talk to somebody about a bus that
mister Bush is gonna need for this tour.

533
00:36:52.239 --> 00:36:54.599
Had worked with another George, you
know what's going to work for this

534
00:36:54.719 --> 00:36:58.920
one. I got the first name, right, Yes, So she told

535
00:36:58.960 --> 00:37:00.320
me to go down this hallway,
third door of the left or whatever and

536
00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:02.320
go and talk to that guy.
So I did. I said, he

537
00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:07.320
said, have a seat. I
said, y'all need buses for a presidential

538
00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:12.440
tour, you know. So I
said, I'll make this happen. So

539
00:37:12.599 --> 00:37:15.320
he said, I said, get
me two days. Because he realized then

540
00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:19.599
that they do need that, So
I said, give me two days.

541
00:37:19.639 --> 00:37:22.079
So I called him pill. I
said, how would y'all like to have

542
00:37:22.199 --> 00:37:27.119
the Georgia of You bus tour?
And asked, and then I wound up

543
00:37:27.199 --> 00:37:29.639
driving. I'm going to ask if
you were the driver. I drove his

544
00:37:29.800 --> 00:37:31.880
bus. Yes, sir, he
was a cool She was so sweet.

545
00:37:32.559 --> 00:37:37.079
Missus Bush was and every day he
would drink olduls, you know, and

546
00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:42.000
of course you got to have a
co driver. I'm following highway patrol and

547
00:37:42.119 --> 00:37:45.920
everybody driving eighty seventy five eighty miles
an hour. And we stopped one night

548
00:37:45.960 --> 00:37:52.280
and I think it was in Columbia
somewhere, and I said, mister Bush,

549
00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:54.199
I said this, I don't like
to drive this way. He said,

550
00:37:54.320 --> 00:37:58.400
leroy, you're doing fine. Just
drive. Just follow that car in

551
00:37:58.480 --> 00:38:00.159
front of you. You don't even
know look in your mirror. You don't

552
00:38:00.199 --> 00:38:04.320
need to look because that guy sitting
in that jumps he's going to tell you

553
00:38:04.559 --> 00:38:08.199
one right that made you to move
lane. One move to the right or

554
00:38:08.280 --> 00:38:12.159
two to the left. Whatever he
tells you. You don't even need to

555
00:38:12.199 --> 00:38:15.119
look at that mirra. He said, we got you covered, just like

556
00:38:15.199 --> 00:38:20.639
two stepping man. You gotta have
to us with your partner. But he

557
00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:23.159
never got out of the bus.
Every night that we stayed at the hotel,

558
00:38:23.239 --> 00:38:27.000
and she would grab my neck and
give me a hug LERO. You

559
00:38:27.079 --> 00:38:30.679
did really great. Then one day
we were riding along and mister Bush said,

560
00:38:30.800 --> 00:38:32.639
lero, let that co driver,
Let that up guy drive come back

561
00:38:32.679 --> 00:38:37.840
here. So I did. I
pulled over and he's the other guy started

562
00:38:37.880 --> 00:38:40.159
driving. He said, so you
don't drive for anybody. Listen. Her

563
00:38:40.239 --> 00:38:45.840
name is George, right, But
that was a cool part of my life

564
00:38:46.039 --> 00:38:52.440
that nobody and I had no idea
until a few minutes ago. You remember

565
00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:57.199
the name Jessica Lynch. I think
Yea Lynch was Yeah, the girl,

566
00:38:57.440 --> 00:39:01.079
that first female. I think they
got blown up in the war. Yeah,

567
00:39:02.599 --> 00:39:07.119
good buddy. My of ours actually
had bought one of Georgia's buses Livesten

568
00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:10.920
Spencer, West Virginia, which she
lives in some holler up there on Spencer,

569
00:39:10.960 --> 00:39:15.159
West, Virginia. So this guy
that bought our bus, which I

570
00:39:15.239 --> 00:39:20.239
have remained friends with forever, he
said, man, let me fly to

571
00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:25.920
Charleston. Then we needed Jessica Liz
needs to go to Walter Reed. So

572
00:39:27.039 --> 00:39:29.840
he said, if I fly you
here, can we put her in my

573
00:39:29.920 --> 00:39:32.119
bus and you take her to Walter
Reed. I said sure, so I

574
00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:37.840
did, and that was pretty cool
too, to be able to do that.

575
00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:39.840
Any O, the stories you can
share with us, this is neat

576
00:39:40.239 --> 00:39:46.280
we're getting education. I mean I've
just remained in fact this Friday night.

577
00:39:46.559 --> 00:39:52.679
But Dickie's Arena. That guy that
I became friends with after buying George's bus,

578
00:39:52.760 --> 00:39:55.559
and you know, he's one of
the guys giving because George gives away

579
00:39:55.679 --> 00:40:00.320
home every night at the show for
the vets for the bench. Yes,

580
00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:06.639
sir, And so this guy that
did this decades ago and that I've remained

581
00:40:06.679 --> 00:40:09.039
friends with for decades, he's one
of the sponsors on the giveaway home.

582
00:40:09.679 --> 00:40:15.199
They had to be a guy from
West Virginia and that's what they're Yeah,

583
00:40:15.480 --> 00:40:17.599
yeah, that's amazing. You don't
spend a lot of time on the road

584
00:40:17.599 --> 00:40:22.440
anymore like he used to. Do
You miss it? Uh? Some time?

585
00:40:22.519 --> 00:40:24.280
I do? Actually, yeah,
yeah, yeah, I get you

586
00:40:24.639 --> 00:40:28.960
don't like being home too long,
do you. Well? I stay busy,

587
00:40:29.239 --> 00:40:32.480
I mean, playing playing my music
and being on a bulldozer and yeah

588
00:40:32.519 --> 00:40:36.400
I do that too. Yeah,
I mean, I ain'd fred to work.

589
00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:40.079
Never has been well. And y'all
are I mean, I mean y'all's

590
00:40:40.119 --> 00:40:45.880
in Georgia's organization. Uh, y'all
still picked quite quite a bit, you

591
00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:47.679
know, I mean, not like
in the old days, but a lot

592
00:40:47.719 --> 00:40:50.760
of I don't know how you went
for to all the time. There was

593
00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:52.760
too much touring all the time for
you. I don't know how you were

594
00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:57.079
doing. They in the early days, Yeah, my god, we were

595
00:40:57.239 --> 00:41:00.440
well over two hundred dates a year. They don't know what. They couldn't

596
00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:06.239
handle it nowadays, right, two
hundred plus days out on the like this.

597
00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:08.280
You don't even know where you are
when you wake up in the morning.

598
00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:12.599
No, you know. Well,
but that's the whole I mean,

599
00:41:12.679 --> 00:41:14.920
you know. And back when I
first started with them, I was the

600
00:41:14.960 --> 00:41:17.000
only driver, and that we were
all on one bus. I was the

601
00:41:17.119 --> 00:41:22.639
only driver, and I drive till
everybody got a little. See, I

602
00:41:22.719 --> 00:41:25.360
couldn't. I couldn't be crammed on
a bus with that many people. I

603
00:41:25.400 --> 00:41:28.920
don't get along with a lot of
people. You guys, I love a

604
00:41:28.960 --> 00:41:32.880
lot of drinking. You can sleep
anywhere. But I guess that was it

605
00:41:34.039 --> 00:41:37.840
there, Maybe that was it.
But I just but also it's so insular

606
00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:42.559
and you and you you very quickly
you get with a good bunch of cats,

607
00:41:42.920 --> 00:41:45.679
you know, yea, and very
quickly you have your own language,

608
00:41:45.800 --> 00:41:49.239
you have your own jokes, you
got your own buck. And I just

609
00:41:49.280 --> 00:41:53.800
stay in my book just that that
people know. You tell you tell stories

610
00:41:53.880 --> 00:41:59.800
that crack everybody up. But if
you go to tell somebody outside your your

611
00:42:00.400 --> 00:42:02.880
world, outside the corral, it's
not funny to them. They don't get

612
00:42:02.920 --> 00:42:07.559
it. It's its own thing where
where it. Until you do it,

613
00:42:07.679 --> 00:42:13.039
you haven't done it. And what
I what's so weird about tour and particularly

614
00:42:13.079 --> 00:42:15.280
when you when you're touring, you
know, one hundred and fifty two hundred

615
00:42:15.320 --> 00:42:22.760
dates a year. That's the thing
about about really doing it as a musician

616
00:42:22.119 --> 00:42:28.599
is most of the people with the
talent to do it can't handle it.

617
00:42:28.920 --> 00:42:30.400
So you got to have the talent
and then you just got to have that

618
00:42:30.679 --> 00:42:36.639
weird deal of waking up in a
different town sounds normal to you. Ah,

619
00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:38.119
man, I couldn't do you ever
get lost? Ever gotten lost before?

620
00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:42.920
Oh? Yeah I have. He
just doesn't tell them for they're lost.

621
00:42:43.039 --> 00:42:45.960
No, I can't remember what now, I'm gonna get this wrong.

622
00:42:46.039 --> 00:42:51.320
Birmingham. I think we were Birmingham, Alabama. And I can't remember the

623
00:42:51.360 --> 00:42:52.920
two deck the states I had the
same name, but they're next to each

624
00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:55.639
other, North and South Dakota.
No, no, no, no,

625
00:42:55.880 --> 00:42:59.440
it was uh that part of the
world. Because I asked a bar turn

626
00:42:59.480 --> 00:43:02.599
to how to get up out of
this town. And actually we stopped at

627
00:43:02.639 --> 00:43:07.119
the mall after driving for hours.
We stopped up there to eat, and

628
00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:12.400
Terry Hale, our bass player,
he kept got looking at the license plates

629
00:43:12.440 --> 00:43:15.199
on there. He said, he
found me, he said, buddy,

630
00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:23.760
or we're right city, Kansas City. I was actually stopped at the wrong

631
00:43:23.960 --> 00:43:28.559
to eat at the in the wrong
city with the same name. So we

632
00:43:28.719 --> 00:43:31.679
had to scramble every go through this
little mall and get everybody together, get

633
00:43:31.719 --> 00:43:36.159
them back and kick their butts back
on the bus. And I drove like

634
00:43:36.280 --> 00:43:38.920
a maniac and we it was back
when he was doing like little county fair

635
00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:43.960
stuff, yeah, you know.
And we got there. We did the

636
00:43:44.039 --> 00:43:45.800
show Lee Roight, what is it
about? Used to in the old days

637
00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:49.760
when I was growing up, and
probably when Money was growing up. We

638
00:43:49.840 --> 00:43:52.400
would see the name of the artists
written on the bus. You don't see

639
00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:54.920
that anymore, do you know.
Oh, you can't do that unless you're

640
00:43:54.960 --> 00:44:00.119
Claire Walker. You can't do that. Don't even do you know Klay Walker's

641
00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:07.639
ex bus driver. No, but
you're you were You're asking to be rotten.

642
00:44:07.760 --> 00:44:10.400
I used to always see living in
sweet Water, Nat Stuckey's bus go

643
00:44:10.559 --> 00:44:15.000
down. I twenty all the time. And well Alvin Crow had it when

644
00:44:15.039 --> 00:44:16.360
I was a kid, I remember, like eight nine years old. Is

645
00:44:16.400 --> 00:44:20.679
that insurance? Is that just keep
privacy where people don't fall out? I

646
00:44:20.719 --> 00:44:25.199
think it's privacy now. Yeah.
I know Alabama in like eighty six or

647
00:44:25.280 --> 00:44:30.519
something, they went off someone old
country road and they encountered, uh,

648
00:44:30.760 --> 00:44:37.039
you know, an armed posse,
armed guys really that they're that that trapped

649
00:44:37.079 --> 00:44:39.880
them, got got them in a
little box canyon and robbed them. I

650
00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:44.599
never heard that story. Well,
no, that's wasn't a real famous story

651
00:44:44.639 --> 00:44:47.760
because that gives a lot of bad
guys ideas. But everybody over at RCA

652
00:44:47.920 --> 00:44:51.119
that's all they could talk about for
Yeah, but you just never see that

653
00:44:51.119 --> 00:44:54.360
anymore. And that was the last
time Alabama ever had their name on a

654
00:44:54.400 --> 00:44:57.880
bus on the side of their bus. Yeah yeah, man, Yeah,

655
00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:04.440
we got pretty good security now.
And also it's like, why would you

656
00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:09.599
think you could rob a country band? Stupid move there, very stupid.

657
00:45:09.719 --> 00:45:15.039
Pretty okay. So the benefit December
third, yes, sir, Granger,

658
00:45:15.440 --> 00:45:19.920
yes, sir. And if Cotton
Club if they want to know more about

659
00:45:19.960 --> 00:45:21.760
it, is there a website that
you can go to? I mean,

660
00:45:21.800 --> 00:45:23.679
hell, I'll have it on my
website, my Facebook page and everything.

661
00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:29.480
But is there a certain website they
need to check out Cotton Country Club dot

662
00:45:29.559 --> 00:45:32.559
com. Yep, okay, so
we expect you to be there, behave

663
00:45:32.639 --> 00:45:37.760
yourself to be a big deal right
now, raise line money for Shannon,

664
00:45:37.880 --> 00:45:42.679
and Shannon is going to the best
heart doctor in the world. I can

665
00:45:42.719 --> 00:45:46.239
tell. And those auction items,
let me ask you this, uh,

666
00:45:46.760 --> 00:45:50.559
because I might want to bet on
some of those things. Is there going

667
00:45:50.599 --> 00:45:54.000
to be a list of things auction
on the website this week? There will

668
00:45:54.039 --> 00:46:00.280
be wonderful, wonderful. We're still
gathering things because God air bits. They're

669
00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:04.800
expecting a big, big bunch of
folks. Will there'll be refreshments and food.

670
00:46:05.159 --> 00:46:07.039
Oh, it's a dance hall in
Texas. What do you think?

671
00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:10.280
Golly, I'll be there. Will
there be the chicken dance this shot.

672
00:46:13.679 --> 00:46:16.960
We're gonna have a couple of fiddles. It'll be okay. MONI has blended

673
00:46:19.159 --> 00:46:22.280
again, Leroy Eckler, right now, join us. Tales and Broken Spoke.

674
00:46:22.320 --> 00:46:25.280
You promised to come back, and
this is the stories because when you

675
00:46:25.360 --> 00:46:29.400
walk away from the mike, you're
gonna think, wait a minute, there's

676
00:46:29.519 --> 00:46:34.119
more stories that I should have told
you spoke more than I should. I'm

677
00:46:34.199 --> 00:46:36.639
not a good talker. To the
beginning of that, you told me when

678
00:46:36.639 --> 00:46:38.760
we sit down, you said,
I don't know what to say. I

679
00:46:38.800 --> 00:46:43.280
don't like to talk. But I
think you know we've had a couple of

680
00:46:43.400 --> 00:46:45.760
ye here and you go, oh, you've played with Elvis for ten years.

681
00:46:46.199 --> 00:46:51.440
Yep, you're not a yes or
no person. You got the scoops

682
00:46:51.440 --> 00:46:53.280
there. We appreciate you taking Thank
you very much. Thanks for inviting me,

683
00:46:53.440 --> 00:46:57.280
appreciate it. Thanks for the friendship
after all these years. Wait,

684
00:46:57.800 --> 00:47:01.880
most one more question for you.
For some reason, back here in Austin,

685
00:47:01.960 --> 00:47:07.079
back behind Capital Plaza, was that
a place to park Georgie's bus in

686
00:47:07.119 --> 00:47:09.480
the early days, back in the
eighties, because we used to always get

687
00:47:09.519 --> 00:47:14.320
calls to the radio station. Hey
George Strait's back behind. I saw his

688
00:47:14.440 --> 00:47:16.920
bus behind Capital Plaza. No,
okay, I can tell you. No,

689
00:47:17.320 --> 00:47:22.599
okay, nothing at all like that. Okay, we'll see there.

690
00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:24.920
After all these years. Somebody lied
to me when they called me show business,

691
00:47:24.960 --> 00:47:28.119
that's what. But maybe they just
want me to talk about on the

692
00:47:28.119 --> 00:47:31.360
air because I did. Anyway.
Teals Broken Spoke continues next week. The

693
00:47:31.440 --> 00:47:37.360
Broken Spoke Amen, thank you.
Tales from the Broken Spoke is recorded live

694
00:47:37.440 --> 00:47:40.639
at The Broken Spoke in Austin,
Texas, hosted by Country Radio Hall of

695
00:47:40.719 --> 00:47:46.280
Fame broadcaster Bob Pickett and Monty Warden, recorded mixed down he produced by Mike rivera