September 22, 1986 - Cleveland, OH

Day Off - Cloudy/Rain

Woke up at 8 - no showers. Drank beer. Woke Steve. We all wore our sweaty clothes from last night. Got to the station at 8:30. Top 40 college radio sucks. Morning show comedy is stupid. We raise hell and Rod steals a pencil sharpener. They were so stupid. Back to Steve's and sleep until 11 or so. We get cleaned up and leave by 1:30. Drive to Buffalo - our show got cancelled??? We go anyway - it's on the way - to do a radio interview. Funny - we hang out - some nice people at the station. Turns out one of they guys doing the interview was the promoter.

We refrain from beating his head in.

We leave and eat down the road at "The Dinner Bell" - shitty food. Drive to Cleveland. Dave R. had Club make reservations for us. I drove the last two hours - arrive at 11:30 or so. Check into Holiday Inn - nice accommodations. To bed at 2AM after Letterman. Teri Garr took a shower.

Swingin' 60's chick Teri Garr.

Posted by Dean at September 22, 1986 09:52 PM
Comments

The thing I remember most from that morning (besides the bad taste of beer in my mouth) was that Rodney told a joke on the air, that while it was pretty funny...well, it kind of upset the on-air talent. It was the (old!) joke about the three kids that ate the rabbit that didn't quite have all the buckshot cleaned out of it. Anyway, the punch-line of the joke is: no Mom I didn't take a pee and have be-be come out of my wee-wee. I was j*****g off and I shot the family dog. It was pure Rodney. The DJ was so happy that Rodney was going to liven up his show.... The guy never saw it coming. I still get a laugh (not at the joke!) thinking back on it after all this time.

Posted by: Blood at March 8, 2004 08:54 PM

Dave, we're going to miss you. I remember reading your message above and thinking how its author sounded a bit sad about days gone by. I could've never known the truth that would come a couple of days later.

RIP

Posted by: x at March 11, 2004 04:42 PM

It saddens me that I've been waiting to read a post of the DM hitting my town, and when they finally did (incidentally, my older sister was at the Peabody's show and I stole her shirt and her Big Lizard tape 2 days later after the first time I heard it, thus making me a DM fan for life)It turned out to be the final post from one of my biggest inspirations for playing bass...
You will be missed Dave.

Posted by: Jay at March 14, 2004 01:25 AM