I hear the first cheers around 10 or 11 in the morning, before anybody on the bus besides the driver is awake.
From inside my capsulelike bunk, behind blackout curtains, the burst of screams and applause sounds strange and otherworldly.
It is Saturday, November 22, and the two trailer-dragging buses and the equipment truck have just pulled into the parking lot of Denver's Fillmore Auditorium. It has been a 10-hour drive since the previous night's gig at the Uptown Theater in Kansas City. We'v
