Photo by Lawrence Rengert. I love this image because she looks so serious. She is probably angry (at me): It was like 120 degrees with no shade anywhere. We had to haul lights and equipment for like a mile or two through this and then wait 3 or 4 hours to do our show. This just did everybody in. Two of the girls could not pay attention. They had never done one of these and knew nothing about the group. They kept dancing during the performance, until one of the older performers threatened to kill them. We're like "no, no, you're not supposed to dance!...try to look serious!". All they knew was that Beck was playing and they were missing it because they were standing there in an ugly dress being ridiculed and hit on by a mob of scary drunks from the Inland Empire. We were paid (and put up in a fancy condominium) to do 2 shows, given back-stage passes, etc., but Saturday was such an ordeal that 4 or 5 of the performers just went home. We did Sunday's show with only 9 girls and in the dark because i just was not going to haul all those lights and cords in there again. But, more people saw this, our sloppiest show, than all the others combined.
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