Sat. Dec. 31st
NEW YEAR’S EVE!!! WOO HOO!!! It’s a bar owner’s dream to have New Year’s on a Saturday. Every bar in the country should have been packed as was the Snorty Horse! Cool night!!! RENEGADE RAIL is a rockin’ roadhouse band and that’s just what we needed for new year’s. They brought a buss full of party people that raised all kinds of hell along with lights and confetti bombs. My mom made it to this show along with some good friends of mine from AR. My mom kept dancing on the speakers and spilling beer on them. I told her to get down and she told me she would whip my ass if I talked to her that way again. She stayed on the speakers.
A bunch of people from out of town made it in and just fell in love with the place. Our bar managed to sell out two of the Mt. Vernon motels. Pretty cool stuff. Renegade rail’s merch guy was hilarious. He had some very unusual tattoos. He also kept passing out at the merch table. Hard to sell T-shirts if your asleep. He made it to the bus no problem and I guess is fine. Renegade Rail just couldn’t hang with us for the after party. They all left and we raised hell until 6 in the morning.
Good night and I have received numerous emails saying it was the best New Year’s Eve party ever!

Fri. Nov. 18
       Holy shit I got two big ass buses with trailers in the Snorty Horse parking lot!!!   Renegade Rail was the first to show up. These guys are really cool. They were just happy to be there and here hanging out to watch Fowler's band do sound check. Kevin was actually going to show up late because he just bought a bus from Dave Mathews. That's got to be a cool as hell bus!
    During sound check, the base player did Rolercoaster from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Everyone got a big kick out of it. It sounded great and he never made a bobble from the fast lyrics. I cooked pork chops for ever one; they were awesome by the way, and everyone sat around while they ate and talked about how much I looked like Dave Groll from the Foo Fighters. At least once a day someone tells me I look like Dave Groll but these guys were convinced I was Dave Groll! I just got a kick out of it.
    This cool chick from Dallas, Texas flew in and absolutely fell in love with the bar and so did a lot of people. Fowler brought a lot of new faces in that have never been here including a bunch of people from MSU who are going to help out tremendously with the whole Red Dirt Scene.
Renegade Rail did great and are a great party band. They were another referral from Nathen Cross formally of the Wormy Dog. They even wrote a verse in one of their songs about the Snorty Horse(major Brownie Points) The crowd really diged them. They also had a real cute gal playing keyboard. I was in the crows nest with Chris (sound guy) and he couldn't stop talking about how good she sounded. He was really happy with the way the night was going.
I wanted to introduce Fowler to the stage and earlier in the week I got a bunch of Tracy Lawrence shit (promo stuff) in the mail. Being as though we are a Texas Roadhouse in Missouri, I thought it would be cool if I burned A Tracy Lawrence poster and give his CD's away as beer coaster's. Kevin didn't have a problem with it; in fact he laughed his ass off, as we proceeded to catch stuff on fire. The crowd really got in to it. Best show ever at the Snorty Horse. Kevin just has a presence and everyone kind of hangs on every word he says. Two or three songs into their set, he just stopped and said "Damn! Why hasn't anyone told me about this place!" He also got me up on stage later in the show and I think he introduced me as Dave Groll. By this time most everything was a blur anyway. He goes "Get em fired up" and left. I don't know what the hell I said but Holy Gees they were fired up.
Kevin finished by signing autographs and getting his picture took. I got to give him a tour of the bar and he is convinced he wants to do a video here. Wouldn't that be cool as shit! Got to hang out on the bus awhile with some buddies. This was Clay Walkers old bus and it was swank to say the least. Can only imagine what the new bus is like.
I still had people ask for a refund. They said they couldn't dance because of all the people pushed around the stage, they was beer spilled on the dance floor and it needed to be cleaned, they couldn't see the band because girls were dancing on their table, the music was too loud, and there drinks were too stout. Hell, that sounds like my kind of place!