Chapter Twenty:     Concerts Ad Infinitum


Chrome Squatch Concert Tour USA

MELLY registering events from Saturday, July 18 to Wednesday, August 12 --

It seems that as our concert tour continues, our source of narrators dries up. No one is volunteering to describe the eventual boringness of more or less identical concerts played in semi-identical town after town. Go figure.

So instead we present a chronological list of concert dates & locations with occasional notes of interest.


Miami Beach, Florida -- Saturday & Sunday, July 18 - 19, 8:00 pm --
@ the Fillmore Miami Beach, audience capacity 2,713 -- Sold Out

Lots of beach time, good weather. Double week-end concerts. Now free from Disney, we get to do our raunchy songs again.


Key West, Florida -- Monday July 20, 6:00 pm --
@ Sloppy Joe's, audience capacity 200 -- Sold Out

4-hour drive on spectacular Overseas Highway to perform special (classified) private concert for POTUS Alejandra Ireña Coronada & guests. Cozy little beach town, we rented bicycles.


Tampa, Florida -- Wednesday, July 22 , 2:00 pm --
@ Amalie Arena: audience capacity 2100 -- Sold Out

Daytime concert outdoors, bright and sunny, no surprises.


Mobil, Alabama -- Saturday, July 25, 9:00 pm --
@ Mobil Civic Center, audience capacity 1938 -- Sold Out

Just doing our job.


New Orleans, Louisiana -- Monday, July 27, 8:00 pm --
@ the Fillmore New Orleans, audience capacity 2000 --

One of the few concerts not sold out, probably because we weren't playing Blues or Jazz.


Kisatchie National Forest, Lousiana -- Friday, July 31 (Full Moon)
@ hiding in deep woods

Yes, this is the kha-rat. Nobody wants to write about it because it's all a repitition: avoid civilians getting a whiff of shyøma, get high, get telepathic, get laid again and again. And yet again.

Anne joined us from Indianapolis, but Shirley couldn't make it so Scott flew to LA and back instead of going to an orgy without her. Nicely done, Scott! Although we missed you.


Houston, Texas --Tuesday, August 4, 7:00 pm --
@ 713 Music Hall, audience capacity 5000 -- Sold Out

Nothing much new here. Except maybe the Space Center, which we did.

But this is Texas? Where have all the cowboys gone?


Oklahoma City, OKC -- Friday, August 7, 9:00 pm --
@ the Criterion, audience capacity 3500 -- Sold Out

Satisfactory concert, extra sillyness with dancing squatchette fans, kinda rowdy.

Next day we took a little 9-hours detour to Cushing, Oklahoma, where there were currently 23 Native American tribes protesting yet another pipeline project, reminiscent of the Standing Rock conflict a few years ago; including armed military agression against unarmed civilians. (Pokey's special report next chapter).


Roswell, New Mexico -- Monday, August 10, 2:00 pm --
@ the Liberty, audience capacity: infinite (outdoors)

We came to Roswell to do a free concert mostly for our own amusement, thinking we'd check out Area 51 and see if we can get some Bigfoot/UFO alien interaction happening. Well, no flying saucers showed up, but we had fun anyway, or at least the locals did. There's always been some conspirations theories linking Bigfoot to UFOs, so Addy and our squatchettes were a big hit with that crowd.

Because so many Bigfoot/UFO fans came to Roswell for the free concert we had to hold it outdoors in an open field on the outskirts of town, as arranged by a local "culture" pub, since there wasn't any concert venue in town big enough to contain us all. There were also 5 other local bands playing, so it was all day long. Thousands of Earthlings did show up, so that the whole town was swamped. We never did get an exact body count, just "lotsa people". Our version of Woodstock.

We tried to visit the International UFO Museum, but the crowd wanted to follow Addy, so it was impossible to move round inside the building. We'd considered driving out to "Area 51" just to see if we'd be turned back by Army soldiers-- or even if it really existed --but the traffic jam was hopeless, so we split at sundown.

But otherwise, man, what a bleak little town-- good thing they've got aliens going for them, there's not much else there.


Phoenix, Arizona -- Tuesday, August 11, 7:00 pm --
@ the Van Buren, audience capacity 1938 Sold Out

Nobody gets drunk any more. Seems kind of sad.


Los Angeles, California -- Wednesday, August 12. 8:00 pm --
@ the Hollywood Palladium, audience capacity 4000 Sold Out

But not quite yet. That'll be tomorrow; our last stop and grand finalé.



Chapter 21

the Adam out of Eden series