John Prine at Lied Center in Lincoln NE

or
Putty for the Hole in a Soul

9/28/01

I had a vintage designer dress that I had been promising to bring to Iris for a year and I finally did that... you know, she is really a tiny thing, I had never stood nose to nose with her, she had always been on stage, seated, or in a big pair of platform shoes. Turns out the dress was as too big on her as it was on me. I hope her friend could make some good use of it... it was really an awesome blue dress (would have brought out her red hair and blue eyes) Shoot, If I had realized she was that tiny... I could have had it perfectly altered for her. Live and learn.

It was wonderful, our own little private concert.... since our seats for the night were going to be as far away as you could get, I am thankful for the chance meeting in the street with John and his graciousness of inviting us in.

We left them at the Hall and wandered around Lincoln for a bit, had a few beers and a meal, then went back to watch the vast array of Prine fans gather at the doors. There were children, bikers,  young to original hippies, yippies, yuppies, yahoos, in suits, leather, tattoos, and jeans. It is always such a treat to 'people watch' a Prine show... such a variety with a common like - no matter their age or decoration, they all were alike when it came to saying hello in there or having dirt in their shoes. Comfortable, I guess that is what you would call it.

We headed into the venue, and all the way up to the top floor bar, and headed out to the balcony where the smoke cloud crowd was. It was there that I ran into a couple of "old friends" Deb and Rod Chambers from the Ames Iowa show. If I had planned this trip I would have contacted them since they were natives of Lincoln and we would have had a real  gathering.