Hello Brothers and Sisters, Well let's see...as of my last re-cap, we were about to play in Green Bay Wisconsin. We did the show and it was a blast. We saw some friends at a little late-night spot that I can't remember too much about except that we played pool. There was a girl there who had our autographs tattooed on her! This is o.k. for her, however, my advise to everyone is this - NEVER get a band logo tattooed on you. You never really know these people. I mean our band of guys are pretty good, but, what if all of the sudden we start our own religious cult that believes in going nude from the waist down all of the time? If you could see our band nude from the waist down...well...we'd be the biggest band in the world then so I'm not proving my point. If any of our fans have a "Winger" tattoo, send us a picture and we'll send you a T-shirt...not...are you getting my point? As soon as I get back to Dallas, I'm going straight out to get me a "Wayne Newton" tattoo. Cool! So...back to business...We played in Lincoln...fun...I think...you know, I have a hard time remembering all of the details from these shows. We played in Tulsa at this place called Cains' Ballroom. This place is a true classic. The dressing room was designed for Hank Williams Sr. The Sr.! Hank Williams Jr. is great too, but, THE SR.!!! If you know in your heart that you don't like country music, get THE SR....Hank Williams Sr. Rules. Listen to his words. You will learn to love it! Anyway...they designed this dressing room so Hank Williams could get real drunk and still be close enough to the stage to make it. Evidently, at Cains' they had a few gigs where Hank would get drunk or lost and not make the gig. This dressing room has him trapped so the only place for him to go is on stage. Elvis and everybody has played Cains' Ballroom. It still looks much like it did 40 years ago. Also, Tulsa has, from what I understand, the second largest number of Art Deco buildings of any city in America...Wait a minute...gotta keep talkin' Hank! I was on an airplane with Bob Sullivan who is a great "old school" sound engineer. We were on our way to Russia of all places to do a gig. Bob is a very great person who was the sound engineer for the "Louisianna Hayride". He did sound for Elvis, Hank Sr., George Jones and a list a mile long. Anyway, he told me that Hank Sr. had a bad back that made it very uncomfortable to be in a car and go on tour. I can relate to this because I had a fragmented disc in my back that made it impossible for me to sit down without experiencing pain...I toured like that for about a year before having a very expensive "laminectomy". So Hank had this back condition that was so unbearable he took Morphine that was readily available thanks to his record label and local pharmasists. Bob told me that because of the Morphine, Hank could have just one cocktail or beer and be too wasted to play. It really was a different era then. Nobody thought, "this Morphine stuff might be dangerous". Bob also went on to tell me that George Jones, on the other hand, could drink for days, be passed out naked in the shower, dressed and revived just good enough to walk (not talk), propped up on stage, and turned loose too everyones' amazement, sing as good as ever. Bob also told me that him and some friends imported one of the first Volkswagen Beetles' ever to be in America. He had the car one day while he was working the Louisianna Hayride. Elvis saw the "bug" and went crazy. This was in the mid fifties and not too many people had ever seen a Volkswagen "in person". Anyway, Elvis begged Bob to let him drive the car. Bob said Elvis drove it in cirlcles in the parking lot for and hour. And every time he drove by the onlookers, he would wave as if too say, "look everbody, I'm driving this little pea of a car!". It was truly a different era. I have other Elvis, George, and Hank stories that I will share in future up-dates. Back to the current up-date...we played in O.K.C. (Oklahoma City) and had fun,but, I was getting shocked from the microphone so much that, my lips were blistered the next day. Metallica played on the same night. We were invited but couldn't go...I am writing this in a plane that we are taking back to Dallas from Las Vegas - truly the last gig of this tour. We flew to Vegas to be in an HBO special called "Mr. Vegas All Night Party Starring Drew Carey". This is a mind-blower friends. We hung around some of the funniest people in America. We played. We jammed with Wayne Newton and David Cassidy. What a funny day. I'm really name dropping now. Drew said at one point to us, "never drop names - DeNiro told me that". I can't say enough about how nice and genuine Wayne Newton was. And what a workhorse! He played two shows in Branson, flew to Vegas, landed about midnight, and tapped this HBO thing until well past three a.m., and still had the energy to talk with Jimbo and do the whole picture and autoghraph thing. Wow!! We love Wayne! I also got hip to what I think may be the best "old school" band in the world, the Lon Bronson Orchestra. They are the cream of the Las Vegas musicians who get together and play the Riviera at two a.m. on Saturdays and Mondays, or Sunday and Tuesday, however you look at it. Watching this band I could tell that I was seeing musicianship that was very rare these days. Also on the Drew Carey bill was The Muffs. The Muffs lead singer guitarist is a girl named Kim who used to be in a band called the Pandoras. The funny thing is that I did sound for The Pandoras for one gig in 1986 at Theatre Gallery in Dallas. Theatre Gallery is the place that was started by Russell Hobbs. Russell Hobbs is the guy who called me "Horton" and the guy who called me "Reverend"(just thought you should know this since I owe a lifetime of gratitude to Russ.More about Russell in future up-dates). The Muffs were fun people... Anyway, back to Vegas. We stayed up and played blackjack until about 5:30 a.m. (that's early for Vegas friends). I ended up ahead by fourteen dollars. Woohoo. Thanks again to Drew for having us. It's going to be on HBO in late June. Also, watch for us on an HBO show called "Reverb". Well, that's all for now friends and neighbors. Check in to the website for up-dates from our upcoming tour with Iggy Pop and Sponge. There's a lot of love in this website, The Reverend Horton Heat a.k.a "Jim"