Funny airport/tour stories-armadillo stickbag content!

[Munjibunga]

Originally Posted by 5StringBlues

Wow,yeah,I kinda remember seeing one of those back in the late 70's.

But the stickbag is actually a REAL armadillo!

That purse is a real armadillo.

[kdiggity]

Originally Posted by Munjibunga

That purse is a real armadillo.

That would go nicely in that 'out of context' thread that's been floating around.

[5StringBlues]

Originally Posted by kdiggity

Here:

Many thanks!

[Munjibunga]

Originally Posted by kdiggity

That would go nicely in that 'out of context' thread that's been floating around.

I take it you didn't see the quote included in my post. Sooahhh, what? Mod in training?

[kdiggity]

Originally Posted by Munjibunga

I take it you didn't see the quote included in my post. Sooahhh, what? Mod in training?

Oh no, I absolutely did see your quote, and the followers of this thread (including myself) will certainly understand the context.

I was implying that the post itself, without the quote and outside of this thread, is purdy strange sounding.

When was the last time you heard the phrase "That purse is a real armadillo"?

Me? Never.

-K

[5StringBlues]

A few years ago I played the Blues Estefette in Utrecht,Holland with an old keyboardist named Earl Gilliam.Earl's drummer has a stickbag that he made out of an old,dead armadillo.He treated the shell so it doesn't stink and tacked a rabbit fur on so it would have a bottom.

So the day after the show we are flying out of Schiphol airport.We get to the security section and one of the security personnel sees the stickbag.The drummer gets pulled out of line and a game of twenty questions ensues.They ask him if it's alive,is it real,where did he get it from,etc.Then they get online to find out if the armadillo is an endangered species.

They had obviously never dealt with anything like this and had no idea what to do.They eventually took the drummer to the security office to talk to the head of security who,after about fifteen minutes,decides there is nothing that can be done and lets my friend board.

The flight was delayed about 35 minutes and, when our drummer sat down,I told him,"Jackie,next time they ask you if its real,just say no!"

So,does anyone else have a weird/funny story that happend while flying to or from another country? If so,tell it here!

[kdiggity]

^ thank you.

[5StringBlues]

[Fishheadjoe]

Not a gig story, but an airport story...
My wife and I were on our way home from a 10 day stay in Spain. WE flew from Malaga to Paris where we had an over night before catching our plane back to Toronto the next day. This took place during the Mad Cow problems in England.
Anyway, after checking into our hotel in Paris, we went out to dinner at a "lovely" french restaurant and a walk up the Champs-Elysées. My wife was having "issues" with the cuisine!
Foward to the next morning and we are off to Charles Degaulle airport and my wife is not well. So I toddle off to the check in counter to get our boarding passes... only to be told by Air France that we had been bumped off the flight.
I was not in a mood to accept that, so I told them that "if we don't get on this flight, I'm gonna blow up this ticket bank!"
(this was pre 9/11)
So I'm standing there and a few moments later, I get the feeling that someone is staring at me... I turn around and there are 8 guys in full EFT garb, including automatic weapons, standing about 6 feet behind me. They did not make a move on me, but just stood, staring.
Eventually they realized that I was just a hot headed Canadian and they slowly left, one by one.
I know that should I have said what I said after 9/11, I would be eating cake in the Bastille! We did eventually get on the flight!
Fishheadjoe

[DBCrocky]

Airport story #1 - This was back in 1991. I was returning from a business trip in the Nashville, TN airport, when I was approached by a strikingly beautiful blonde in a security guard outfit who asked me if I would help them evaluate their security. What she had was a real .38 handgun, wrapped in so many layers of duck tape it would take several hours to get it out and make any use of it. Being a sucker for pretty blondes, she convinced me to put it in my bag, assuring me that she would be right there as I went through security. She was good to her word, and I put the bag in the Xray machine. Nobody said a word, and I went right through without a problem. The blonde was quite upset, took my bag, put it though the machine again, had words with the operator, pointing at the screen of the X-Ray machine. I couldn't hear what she said, but I could imagine it was "See that - that's a gun. You don't let those through!" Very pre-911 story.

The second story was just a couple of years ago. I have one of those Fernandez travel guitars with the little speaker in it, which is great for campfile acoustic guitar jams, and I was heading to meet some friends at a music festival. It didn't even occur to me that the bag I had for it looked just like a rifle bag. I trotted up to the ticket counter and plopped the bag up on the counter, and all the agents eyes got real big and they all stepped back. When I realized what I had done, I slowly unzipped the bag to show them it was a guitar. I didn't want to check any baggage, but for the rest of the trip I unzipped the end of the bag and let the headstock stick out so I wouldn't freak out every person I cam across.