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our friend brady arrived yesterday, complete with tour bus.  we made our way downtown and pretty much camped out there most of the day.

we did get into the HBO Treme party.  I won a bar tab using a new app called Livetapp.  the bar staff did not recognize my valuable iphone bar tab app bar tab prize.  so I found the CEO of Livetapp and he made good on his app's award, he bought our beers. 

HBO had a film crew there interviewing people about their new orleans experiences.  Cmoore offered some words, I thought it best not to share my NO stories.

exene cervenka and brady blade joined us in the courtyard of the ghost room.

back to the bus.  it was probably 4 pm by this time.  I'd still not had any lunch (solid food at least)

we found papa mali on the bus and we all shared some good stories from the early years of the killer bees.  turns out I had left my wallet in papa mali's apartment back in ...85, 86?  he had made sure I got it back, but I never knew he was also the same guy as papa mali.  we play his music is on the playlist here at amh, not knowing he was the guy I wanted to thank for his good deed 25 years ago.  good times with good people.

Jerry Fitzpatrick, our rock and roll bus driver displaying his collection of back stage passes.  he even drove for the grateful dead.  he's got a book coming out with all the details...

we spent most of the day just hanging around the bus, drinking beer.  I did manage to find a red delicious apple after doing a lot of whining over the fact that I got no real lunch.

people came and went all day long, one of the guys from wide spread panic visited for a while.  then there were a lot of interviews, we found some camp chairs in the luggage compartment and moved our talking and beer drinking to the sidewalk outside the bus, that's legal right?

CMoore's promo girl he hired to promote his magazine stopped by to pick up flyers to hand out, we had other stuff to do.

I finally managed to peel cmoore away from the prevost...

we let Genevieve at la condesa order for us.  the kitchen spent the next hour shuffling plates of delicious food for us to sample.  cmoore got friendly with some girls from urban outfitters (he bought them a round of drinks, they smiled at us for a while and then turned their backs to us)  maybe I did start in on how awesome my wife and kids are...  I was thinking of home by this time.

we heard rachel ray was also there, if you've not eaten there, you should.  not your every day mexican food and candy for the eyes as well.

after dinner, we met back at the tour bus and the whole group of us made it over to Antone's to see Emmylou Harris.  the guy at the back door was not too happy about our mob.  refused to let us all in and I was OK by that as I've been in Antone's when it's crowded, hot and uncomfortable!

Brady quickly regrouped and we ducked into another venue a few doors down.  and then I heard it...  QUIET COMPANY was on stage.  one of my favorite local bands. 

as they always do, they put on a tight set with lots of energy.

the horn section was a nice addition.

then it was back to antone's.  Emmylou had called brady and asked him to come back.  I stayed outside, chatting to papa mali and listening to cmoore rant about the doorman at antone's. 

two more days of sxsw...