Road Diary

When I first started out I kept a diary of some of the places I played. Here's a few of the excerpts...

the Chickadee Cafe in Nakusp...

...March 29th, 1995. This is when it all started.

I've lost touch with a lot of the people I met along the Mythical, but Walter and Hillie are still good friends.

( I never did)

This one was a barroom gig. I rocked. There was some guy sitting at the bar and he asked me during my break, a real sourpuss he was, too, looked like he had a toothache and maybe a rock in his shoe, too, and he asked me if I was famous. " Are you famous?" I remember I laughed, and I said something like "No, I'm the most unfamous guy you'll ever meet."

These entries are just dates, without years, so it's hard to tell offhand if this is '95 or '96. But I remember walking into this bar and asking some guy where the cheapest rooms in town were. He said "Right here." And then he looked at me and said, "Army brat." I said how did you know, and he said he can always tell an army brat because they can walk up to any complete stranger and start a conversation.

Fernie was a good Mythical town. Maybe it will be again.

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