After a little break (seven months! I don't know what happened...) I return with an entry that has the potential of being even more embarrassing were I to reveal the band I was trying to see. (I only figured it out from references in previous entries.)
I had seen this English band the year before at the Santa Monica Civic with Jade; I think her step-father drove us. But since then I had started taking the bus to Santa Monica after school when there was a show, so I could hang out on the lawn beforehand, to meet the bands or people I had met at other gigs. I got the bus this time with Susan Richards.
Someone, I think Danny Benair, told me that you often could get the best seats - orchestra pit - if you waited in line for the box office to open just before the show. This worked a couple of times but not tonight! So we got the bus home as well.
April 1
Fortunately Susan got home just in time. Bill Wood was there so I talked to him. [No idea who this person was!] Then I was talking about Sparks and stuff to a lot of people. We were in line from 5:30 till 7:30, and were the second people in line but there were no tickets! We found a couple of scalpers with them but $15 each????!!! [Tickets for the Civic that year would have run from $3.50 to $5.50, maybe $6.50, so 15 bucks was a lot!]
I was looking and waiting for Robert [Williams, my objet de crush] and then I saw him inside! He was facing the other way though and I ran around to the other side and he disappeared. I kept running around - finally he was near the door but facing the other way but this guy got his attention and he came out to talk to me. He said to stick around, he was sure I'd get a ticket... He burped ... I said I liked his shirt but that it wasn't worth $30 and he got mad. He squeezed my hand then he blew a kiss as he went back inside.
We heard them do "School", then went home. That bus driver was totally loony! Coasting, putting his feet up, those looks, the way he talked, waiting at lights... WEIRD!!!
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