The show in the park went went really well... no complaints. I was sad that this trip we only introduced one new old historic Olympia song, "Communicate" by Twin Diet - and we dropped Teenage Punk Rocker In Love... but no big deal there.
What was a big deal was that about an hour before the show, a few of us were sitting there talking, waiting for Du to arrive with the amps and equipment, when we heard a loud cracking - we looked across the park and a big-ass tree, and I mean big, started coming down - for no apparent reason at all, we watched in horror and fascination as this monster tree - it must have been 30 to 45 feet around at the base - toppled over, taking down huge palm trees with it, snapping them off like toothpicks . It all happened so fast, in just seconds. Immediately people swarmed across the park and from off the street, working their way through the branches, looking for people trapped under the monster.
Miraculously, apparently only one person was hurt - a woman was lead away, holding her arm, looking very shaken, maybe in shock, but able to move without assistance other than people guiding her by her elbow.
I have to say that it was far and away the most bizarre thing that has ever happened at any show I've ever played in... it comes darn close to exploding drummers.
Afterwards I asked Six if this sort of thing happened all the time, or if they just arranged it for Anne and my benefit. He, and everybody else, was as amazed and shocked as we were.
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