A FEW TOURING HIGHLIGHTS

Some of the highlights from my years in the business, attractions that were exclusively my projects, would be the new company of Hair (which we produced and played at the Moore Theatre for seventeen weeks), the dates I did with Janis Joplin in Seattle, Hawaii and Vancouver BC (all of which sold out and were a real challenge)  In Seattle we played Janis in Sick's stadium with Pacific Gas & Electric and The Youngblood's on the bill. It was festival seating, no reserved seats, and an absolutely madhouse. I got a lot of exercise running back and forth between the street entrance ticket office and backstage, which must have been about a quarter mile. People were wacked out.  I was one of the few sober persons in the stadium at the time. Another highlight was the night we brought Ike and Tina Turner to Vancouver BC and had a riot in the Coliseum. The Ike and Tina tour was my show, and a tough one. These people didn’t appreciate a young ego-centric honkey from Seattle. The show was a sellout. I’m sure we had fifty to sixty off duty policeman working the coliseums in order to forestall bedlam in all three towns.  As I’ve said, a rocket ride, a lot of fun, never boring, a steep learning curve, a grand adventure and “sometimes over the top”.