WALSTIB - 2

Pics from the lot, inside the venue, as promised. Oh, the setlist:
Set 1:
Help on the Way >
Slipknot >
Franklin's
Good Lovin
Cassidy
Bird Song (ended reservations about JG-less Jerry tunes)
Uncle John's Band (with a smokin' kybd solo)

Set 2:
Unbroken Chain >
The Other One
Drums of Fire (fire dancers during drums) >
Space
Sugaree
Gimme Shelter (reference to Altamont?)
Sugar Mag

Encores:
St. Steven >
The 11 >
Hendrix (Foxy Lady?) tease >
The 11
Touch of Grey



picture contents.....
top - Bell enjoying the lot. Green '78 Westy was parked 2 cars to her left. Mid-80's Vanagon was about 8 cars down to the right. Overall, there were very few bay window or vanagons in Mt. View / Shoreline.

next from top - Dwayne-o. Old friend of mine from my Las Vegas days. He came down from Florence OR (didn't realize he was a fellow Oregonian) to meet up with a few of us old Shwaggtown-ers.

next from bottom - Entry to Shoreline. That's Ed, lead singer and driver of the Winnebago (or '73 bus in our case).

Bottom - inside Shoreline as the Dead start filering onstage. That was our view - pretty darn good.

On the bus work.... I have given up on brazing, and I'm back to welding again. After reading the fine print on the HTS-2000 website, it looks like the kind of fabrication I'm doing is with tubing that is too thick to get up to temperature. Basically, the website says something about 12" x 12" x 1" in size, or something like that. I think the heat dissipates so fast, that a torch can't keep the tubes hot enough long enough to braze well.

So, I'll be buying a welding helmet at Harbor Freight, and some steel bars at Home Despot (or The Steel Yard on Columbia Blvd), and re-starting my welding efforts. I have reached out to a few friends that have welding on their resume's, but this is a hard time of year to get time from folks - they have their own delayed projects that need their spare hours. Before I break into the welding, I'll be rust-treating the underside of the bus with Eastwood's Rust Encapsulator. That shouldn't take more than an hour, but its necessary before welding in a radiator mount under there.

I'll have pics of the return drive, and from the Gorge show (May 16, 2009) in follow-up posts.