Newsgroups: alt.music.deep-purple 
Subject: ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT RB MEETING 
From: mikekeo@metrolink.net (mike and keo) 
Date: 22 Jun 96 01:15:22 GMT 

Yes its that time again for another attempted RB meeting (kinda like an Elvis sighting huh). This time was Miami Fla 1974. We stayed at the closest Holiday Inn figuring the band would be there (makes sense right). WRONG! Except there were some Purple at the hotel as well as the J Geils band and Elf too! Also about 200 other hopefuls looking for DP! The place was a disaster by the end of the evening!

My friend Mark and I went walking thru the hallways hoping to just bump into TMIB. hahahaha Instead we ran into Peter Wolf then RJD (we did not know Dio was anybody then!!). But alas no RicardO. Until we walked by this one room where we heard a synthesizer sound coming from the room. Ahhhh...there is TOMATO in the room we thought to ourselves! Mark got the guts to knock on the door and this weird looking guy answers...."Yea what-cha blokes want??" Mark explains the situation and this guys gets a real hoot out of us and invites us in laughing the whole time. Turns out he works for DP and is fixing an ARP synth (remember those ancient things??) for Mr. Lord.

We have a nice long chat with him (his name was Mike Phillips) and then he drags out this disgusting stuff called.....Scotch! YUCK! I do not drink and I try to tell him that but he tells me if I am going to stay in the room with him I do. So I gulp down 2 wimpy attempts and go running down the hall gagging and find the pop machine. I get a can of 7-up hoping to cover up the taste. No luck. He was insulted by what I did to his Scotch and by the time we arrived back to our room I was PUKIN all over the place. Mr Phillips informed us that the band was at a more exclusive hotel along the beach (no he did NOT give us the name).

The next night was the concert and it was a dissapointing show by TMIB as he was late getting to the stage where all the band members were waiting for him and no guitar was trashed! Geils stole the show and I remember that I thought Elf's singer was pretty good but the band sucked. After the show, the roadies all got together at the pool and dumped in a ton of unused dry ice from the show in the pool and things got pretty crazy from there. I wont go into details what mischief we caused inside the hotel as I do not know what the statues of limitations are but it was not a pretty sight. So there you have it another attempt to meet TMIB gone down the toilet! POOPY!

MIKEY IN FLA STILL LOOKING FOR TMIB

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