Hank III in New York

I think something weird has happened every time I have been to NY with Hank, But the best story from there was when we played B.B. King Live right in the middle of Time Square. First of all let me say that place SUCKS, SUCKS, SUCK, ASS. It's like doing a big rock show at a Applebees! You can't park your bus anywhere with in a 10 mile radius so when you load in its throw and go (while a cop is writing you a ticket) and get the bus the hell out of there..Anyrate I digress...We played there and it's a seated venue but not like a theatre but like a cafeteria after about an hour of arguing I finally got them to remove 20' x 15' area in front of the stage, that they issisted on taping off with yellow caution tape for the "Mush Pit". We had sold out at about 700 tickets and where expecting more then 30 people to dance. But the Manager assured me it would be fine. Once we started the show it was obvious it wasn't going to be fine and the whole lower level pretty much got demolished and the tape lasted two songs into the opener. We made it through the show with out anybody getting hurt and despite the P.A. being WAY too small for the room it was a successful show.

I headed backstage directly after the show to check on the condition of the band and to get on top of getting the fuck out. When Joe the drummer stormed out of the dressing room and told me the "If I didn't get that fuckin bitch out of the dressing room" He was gonna smack the shit out of her I'm like "Wha??" "Look" he said and open the dressing room door. Some girl from the audience that had been a problem during the show had showed up drunk as hell and looking for Shelton and the security had just let her in right before they had gotten of stage and she had illegibly scribbling her name on the acoustic guitar we kept in there and tried to steal any memento she could get her greasy little fingers. When I go to kick her out and she aint gonna go with out a fight "FUCK YOU ASSHOLE!!" She keeps screaming I was trying to grab the security guard that had let her back in the first place and he not helping at all. So I grabbed her by the arm and started to pull her out of the dressing room More 'FUCK YOU ASSHOLE!!!HANK, HELP ME!!!" she grabbed a bottle of Jack Daniels and insisted she had brought it as a gift for Hank.."No you didn't that is ours GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE" somebody in the band tugged it away from here as I'm trying to pull her out of the dressing room. I got her to the door and she grabbed of all things my dinner that I had not eaten yet and was saving for after the show. She start shoveling it into her mouth then screamed "GET YOUR HANDS OFF ME NIGGER" That did it no more mister nice guy..I freaked grabbed the Hamburger out of her hand and smashed it into her face Screaming "I'M GONNA KILL THAT BITCH!! finally the "backstage security" came back to see what all the noise was about and "GET THAT FUCKIN BITCH OUT OF HERE" She was covered in a greasy hamburger and there where fries everywhere. They finally escorted her from the building (I think for making a mess). Our bus showed up and got another ticket while we where trying to load out.

About a year later we played at CBGB and in the middle of the country set Shelton stopped in the middle of a song and said "Hey Randy Guess who's right down front" Seeing red all over again I grabbed the talk back mic and started screaming at that "Fucking redneck bitch"