at the same venue - the Sheppard Air Force Base airman's Club in 1984 and 1985.. 2500 drunk screaming metalhead airmen worshiping every second we entertained them.. God bless 'em those were my favorite 4 shows of my life..

So, guys kept buying me drinks.. our PA cabinets were on each side: Couple of huge bottoms on each side, a smaller mid cabinet on top of those, and a smaller high end cab on top of that.. Since the mid cab was smaller than the bottoms, there was a ledge that went all the way around the bottoms - that ledge was at about four feet high to me..

So, I would take a sip from every drink and set the cup on the ledge.. before the first set was over, the entire ledge was full of cups of various alcohols from beer to shots.. Somewhere I have a pic of that.. if I find it, I'll post it..

Anyways, both weekends we played there, the same thing happened all 4 nights.. and on Sunday morning, when we went in to break down our equipment, both times the airmen had already broken everything down and had it waiting by the loading door.. just amazing.. If I could buy them all drinks now, I would..

I did come into contact with one of them a few years ago.. I was trying to get a Jackson guitar endorsement and the guy working there had been in the air force and remembered seeing me play.. bottom line I didn't get an endorsement! lol (because I didn't have a CD out to promote..)

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