Thanks. I know this is a veer that perhaps is only of interest to me but I do play places where an amp is not welcome or where power is not available. If you had told me I was playing on a train, I would have just grabbed the B-50 and now I know I have choices, or at least questions.
GAD may be interested to know that the graphic accompanying that blurb about Burlington's Zephyr trains dating to
the 30's featured a guy using an electric shaver.
It was the beginning of the death of safety razors, which he collects.
(Trying my best to keep a straight face while I deliver that)
After all that it occurred to me that growing up in California in the '60's where nobody walks, they drive their car, I never truly realized just how deeply trains underpinned American culture.
Not just as freight movers but as people movers and thus a major source of human interaction.
A "Doh" moment when one considers how many songs across many genres have train references* and that they must have been a large source of transportation for a lot of entertainers over the years.
Suddenly the idea of chartering a train for a 3-city tour begins to make a whole lot of sense logistically and historically, not just as a novel form of transportation which originally I thought of as an "image stunt".
I mean,
rock bands always traveled by bus or plane, right?
And even though I was never a
big fan of folk music, this one always touched me somehow and I still pull out the the chart occasionally:
"City of New Orleans"
Don't think I ever truly put together it was a
real train with a daily route through the heartland, for
decades.
Part of a
whole fleet of "City of..." trains...
* "Take the "A" train", "Hear My Train a-comin'", "Last Train to Clarksville", "Love in Vain" "White Room", "One After 909",
and of course "Smokestack Lightnin'" and "Know you Rider" for us Deadheads....