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The Franklin Battle of The Bands There were six bands. (including us.) One of the bands was metal-y, the others were mostly covers (each played Jenny Jenny (867 5309.) One of those bands had a keyboard player. I slipped her a note, “wanna join an original band?” That would be LeeAnna Hazel. More on that later in the history. We were the only all-original group. The metal band brought the most fans and were hometown faves. During our set Dave went to the back of the stage and leaned over. I couldn't see what he was doing. Later on he told me he had vomited from the stress. We played our asses off. After all the crap, this meant something. We wrapped, stashed our gear and waited for the last band to finish. It was the metal-y band and the audience was raving.
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We assumed we weren't going to win, and then the announcer called out “and the winner is, Woodrose.” Staring blankly, none of us believed what we heard. “the winner is, WOODROSE!!!” We started to make our way to the stage. There were vague grumblings, mutterings and boos among the crowd. The Emcee handed us a trophy and began to escort us to the locker room to give us our winnings. The grumbling got louder. As we walked cops moved in besides us. I thought, “oh shit, did they find something in one of our vehicles?” I asked the officer walking beside me, “Uh, what's up?” “You don't want to go through that crowd alone.” We got our check and skedaddled to our vehicles. As we left, the crowd was exiting and not happy. The arrangement of this arena was such that you could loop around the front driveway. And that is what we did, we drove back through, “THANKS FOR THE MONEY!!!!” They threw shit and yelled. It was glorious. |
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