Metro Fountain Blues Festival, San Jose State, CA

Backstage with my buddy Jimmie B from Austin. Jimmie is Sonny Landreth's tour manager. We met years ago when i helped Doyle Bramhall on tour. We have kept in touch and I ran into him in New Orleans at Jazz Fest when we were both there helping Doyle again. Great to see you Jimmie. I hope to see him again when Sonny plays at Anthology in San Diego at the end of the month.

Our Green room was in this very cool old house adjacent to the stage on the campus grounds.

This is my view of the 7000 some odd people that were jammed into the central court of the San Jose campus.


This was the 3rd time SJK Band has played at this festival and my first time. We were treated like royalty the entire time. We were greeted in the parking lot by volunteers to help us with our gear and escort us to the green room. The room was stocked with fresh fruit, wonderful cheese and other goodies. Joe and Bnois did a radio interview while I got ready. We had Back line for this event so i only had to use my pedal, snare and cymbals. The show went great and the crowd really seemed to did it. I could not see very far back but it appeared they were grooving. It seemed to go way to fast and then it was over. I really dig doing these huge shows. I watched Sonny Landreth before we left. We saw Koko Taylor getting out of a limo as we left. Robert Cray played after Koko. We could not catch them cause we had to drive strait to Montery to perform on the radio and Internet at Mike Nesmith's Video Ranch Studio.