Kevin Martin, lead vocalist being the driver with the incredible sense of direction required for that task. The difference this wasn’t a local band, this was Candlebox on their first major record label tour. The band is sitting around, realizes they need some things for the upcoming gig, grab a couple chicks with a car, drive to the store and then get back to the hotel. This would be any average musician tale across the country. Zoom-zoom, our driver has a lead foot and off we go, somehow he managed to backtrack and reroute us to the hotel safely. The guys made quick haste of their business and within a matter of time we were piling back into the car prepared to tangle with the freeway system again. The four of us crawled from the Chevy Cavalier and headed inside the store. Hence, how we soon came to declare, “Kevin knows all. Don’t know how we managed to pull this off, except to say that our driver pulled it out of his ass… once again. We were on a highway in search of a music equipment store around 4:00pm in the afternoon with traffic steadily streaming along.Ī turn this way, a turn that way, a u-turn here and then a cross over there and bam pulling into the parking lot of the establishment. “It’s has to be this way, hang on”, he replied accelerating up the highway ramp.ĭallas, Texas. “Do you know where we are going?” I said from my spot in the passenger seat.

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