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.

WALSTIB

I've been working with the aluminum tubes and the HTS-2000 product, but I've had limited time (as usual). I don't have any pictures of my handiwork yet, but its taking a bit of time to learn and get the tinning / temperatures right. Once I have something good, I'll post a picture. In the meantime, I took a ride with my friend Ed (his blog is here) down to the East Bay in his '73 to see the Dead. Check out his blog for the details on that trip. His bus is running my old carb, and running very well. Good job, Ed. Along the way I took a bunch of pictures, and I'll post them up here. The first set of pictures is below. They were all taken out of the moving bus on our way to our friend's place in Livermore. I'll add some shots from the lot and from the return drive in later posts. These pictures remind me that this is called "View From a Bus" - that's exactly what these pictures are.

Mt. Ashland -or- Mt. Shasta. I'm not sure which..










Northern California overlooking Lake Shasta...










Crossing bridge after getting off I-5, on one of the 4 other freeways before we touched down in Livermore....










More on the fabrication work after we get back from the Gorge: The Dead again, but this time with the Allman Bro's opening, and we're camping. It should be fun.