I quickly informed him that I was only purchasing Twinkies and chocolate milk. He laughed and told me we had scared the hell out of the lady behind the counter and he was just there at her request. I ve got to round up all 8 of your drivers licenses now and run them, sorry for the inconvenience he told us. Before long officer Dumas joined in and got to talking to us about music and football which is how we learned he had played college ball. I should explain something before I get to the end of this story.
Rock bands have to carry an enormous amount of power amps to run the sound system.
These amps are stored in what else but an Amp Rack and those sucker are heavy, normally weighing around 200-300 pounds apiece. Lillian Axe had used our amp racks to help power the PA in Jackson so they had been the last thing loaded in the bus. In our hurry to get headed home we didn t realize the amp racks were making the front of the bus bounce unusually high causing the front wheels to almost leave the ground. A fact we were informed of when a highway patrol officer outside of Van Buren, Arkansas pulled us over that Sunday morning. This guy was a real jerk.