evidence of where i was... (photo of DEAD ON THE WATER)
Ok, now here is the long story. Alan and I are very long time Captain Beefheart fans. When I recently discovered that short-term Beefheart guitarist Gary Lucas (he played on Safe As Milk) was going to be playing in L.A. I suggested to Alan that we go catch that show. I have been bugging Alan to come to a concert with me for over two years now and timing has just never worked out, seeing he has a job and lives 500 miles away and all. So this sounded like the perfect show to see, and it would be suiting for me to finally visit Alan in the desert. I have never visited him in all of the 22+ years he has lived in the So Cal desert. So, Thursday afternoon I arrive in L.A. and Alan informs me that Gary Lucas cancelled his show because there was not enough tickets sold. (I wrote a letter to Gary at his MySpace page and told him that we were disappointed to not get to see him.) He was kind enough to write me back. I still need to answer that letter to let him know I had no bad intentions...