Camper*
Durand Jones**
In approximately 2000, my then female interest invited me to join her and some friends at the 9:30 for Camper/Cracker show. Or was it Cracker/Camper?
Anyway, we're in the balcony on the rail during the first band, and a stranger comes up from behind and knees me in the back of the knee hard, causing me to buckle to the ground in pain. I immediately decide I'm going to play it cool and ignore the guy, but my girlfriend starts screaming at the guy and asking me if I know him. I (jokingly, gently) put my arm around him and say "Yeah, no worries, we're old pals." And he immediately smashed his beer bottle over my forehead. The next thing I know riding I'm in an ambulance to Howard, and my only Camper show is over.
So how much concert karma is it that 25 years later, I go to a James show, enter a contest to win tickets to Camper....and win.
** My wife's one Fall concert, if I make it through Saturday night.