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Mine was a gig at the Lehigh Valley University fraternity party. I was playing a Hammond B3, Erik Cartright (from Foghat) was lead guitar, my bro was lead singer and guitar, drummer was our County Commissioner, Jim Cadue. Interesting personnel.

When we started carrying our equipment in, I found the door was too narrow to get my B3 through – PANIC. Then some of the fraternity guys told us they’d help us lift it through the back window. Good save but was a bit concerned how we were going to get it back out the window after all the frat guys were drunk – which they were. Fortunately, they worked well in their drunk state.

Anyway, the entire night was a battle of the loudest. Damn, that Erik played loud. Had a lot of cool licks at the 120 dB level though. I wasn’t going to let him take the spotlight against my B-3 with tone cabinets. My bro just laid back and took it in stride. Jim, on the drums, was also competing volume-wise. We all, including the frat boys, had some nerve-deafness at the end of the night.

Beer was flying all over. Typical frat boy party. But it was exciting. Got home the next morning with all intact.

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Best, John