I’m currently doing a small tour thru the Pacific Northwest performing experimental music to throngs of trees and sometimes people with my friends Rob Price and David Grollman.
Tours always get names and I believe in letting early events name them. So:
Motel 6. Redding, CA. Tired after driving for several hours after the SF gig and having stayed at this very same Mo 6 back in 1990-something on a Ramona The Pest tour, I figured it was safe. BUT NO! In the a.m., Rob got first dibs at the shower. Turns out the tub drain was seriously clogged and since we needed to split for Portland for our gig, Dave and I were not going to be showering. So I went to work the manager for a refund of some kind. He says ‘We’ll need to send someone up to the room to see if it is user error.’ A woman comes up to the room, sticks her hand in the soapy water, yanks the drain plug up out of the drain and say’s ’see this is what you have to do.’ Apparently, the regular old drain lever isn’t enough at the Redding Mo 6. User Error. No refund. Do not pass go, do not collect $200.
