Rufus Skates: July 2012

The Metal Band <--(click to listen) that I play drums in was booked at the Buccaneer as the opening act Friday the 6th of July. I didn't find out until Wednesday night before the Friday we were playing. We had not practiced in over two weeks and the only time we had time to practice was before the show started. Luckily I was able to get out of work before five which gave us enough time to play our five song set twice, load the van and go to my house and allow Ron and Coltrane to skate the ramp in my back yard for 30 minutes before we had to make it to the Gig. We went on at 9:30, played about 26 minutes to a small crowd of about say 20 people give or take. We had two people purposely show up, Tricia and Swamp. The other 18 or so were all accidental patrons of the bar, maybe stragglers that were there to see upcoming performances of the night, I think the next bands musicians but we will take what we can get. The show went well, we finished our short set and then the guitar player from the Joint Chiefs (that is funny) started yelling that we play more. When we told him we did not have any other material, he replied play the set again, laughs.... So we played the first song more time as an encore. I think Coltrane was the star of the night but everyone complemented Ron and I never the less.

Saturday rolled around, I got up a little early to prepare for the upcoming session of Arkansippi. Arkansippi is a quartly gathering of different people from Mississippi and Arkansas. It mostly revolves around skating and hanging out until weee hours of the morning. The event was to start in my back yard ramp at around 230, then move to a local pool, to another back yard ramp and then back to my back yard. Well.... Swamp and Coltrane had been at my house from the night before. Cole, Ron and Skyler showed up around 2:30 pm, then David and Chris G showed up shortly after. I thought it was going to be a couple of hour session and then we would go pool side somewhere. At first the session was predictable, every one but me was getting their skate on. I was taking pictures and having fun at it. Then things started to pick up when they duct taped a old cooking pot to the ramp to simulate a light in a pool.

After that Skyler and Cole put a latter on top of the ramp.

Then Swamp Had Chris G hold a Chair on the other side to grind on.

Then I had to build an extension.

We never made it to the pool. We thought about it for a while but we ended up going to the store and buying stuff to grill out. Jordan and Eric showed up from Arkansas, everyone skated some more and I made burgers. The End.