The Bisbee Blues Festival is a pretty big event around here.

[panader0]

It was sponsored for years by the radio station where my sweetheart works
It was held at the Warren ball park, built in 1909, one of the oldest still used
stadiums in the nation. Jeannie asked if I and my band buddies would like
to run security--no money, but free music and beer tickets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Ballpark
We all agreed. Tab Benoit was the headliner, a great Louisiana blues player.
About halfway into the show, one of the ladies who organized the event
asked me and our lead player Jack if we knew how to draft beer.
The lines in front of the beer truck were long and the complaints were coming
in that the beer cups were half foam.
Jack and looked at each other, smiled and said "sure".
So we began filling the cups by the dozens, let some sit to let the foam die down,
then fill to the brim. We both had a separate cup for ourselves.
The lines disappeared, the complaints ended, and Jack and I both got
quite stewed. Afterwards we got to hang out with Tab.

[Lochloosa]

1. Nice that you got to hang with Tab.

I used to volunteer for the Jacksonville Jazz festival. I was on the transportation crew, so would pick up the artist from the airport.

Met some really great artist, Grover Washington, Jr., Diana Ross etc.

I was Diana Krulls date for the Saturday night after party. Now that was fun. If only my wife hadn't tagged along. 😭

[brush]

2. Sounds great. I visited Bisbee once, stayed at the Copper Queen hotel. It it sitll there?

[panader0]

4. The Copper Queen is still there--a fine hotel and once considered

the finest hotel between St. Louis and San Francisco.

[Bradshaw3]

3. I love Bisbee

Was there in April for the vintage base ball tournament. Cool town and great old ball park.

[panader0]

5. Before Phelps-Dodge came to Bisbee and bought out all of hundreds

of mining claims in the early 1900's, Bisbee was a wide open place.
The population was much more than it is now with almost a hundred bars
and many houses of ill-repute. The head of PD back then was a guy named Lavender.
The huge Lavender Pit is one of the deepest open pit mines in the nation.
Copper, copper copper. Also the famed Bisbee Blue turquiose.
The town boomed. PD shut down the brothels.
Some of the old bars (St Elmo's) still exist. When the mine played out, and the miners left
in the early 60's, the hippies moved in. Old miner houses, built on the hills
sold for hundreds of dollars. It was a hippie paradise. So cheap, so close to the
border, so much weed. My GF at the time bought her large house for three grand.
Our next door neighbor paid eight hundred.
But the yuppies came and the old houses were remodeled (I did a bunch of that)
and now the prices are outrageous.
Still a hippie town. Very cool place.

[kairos12]

6. Bisbee is great. So many staircases, so little....energy!