Wow, man.
Is that you,
Luther?
Hey, man, who do you think it is?
Can't you guys get an alarm clock?
What's happening, man?
I mean, we got to get out of this raggedy hotel,
man. I spent all night last night fighting off cockroaches trying to get some sleep.
What?
Cockroaches?
I mean, now the maid is pounding on the door yelling check out time,
you know what I mean?
I mean, I've only been in this room for about four hours,
you know what I mean?
At least you got a room.
Does everybody have their own
personal belongings and stuff?
Well, I got some stuff,
Debris?
You got your debris and stuff?
I got the debris.
Oh, I'm sure you got it.
Hey,
Mario, you got space?
Yeah, I got space.
What about, I said your base.
What about your bag, man?
What bag?
You got your passport?
What passport?
You know what passport.
Man, look, I get sailed over
here on the boat.
You got clothes to wear?
Clothes?
Oh, man, what do you mean?
Where they at?
Man, what clothes?
This is 1984.
You know what clothes I'm
talking about, man.
Have you seen the roadie?
Uh -huh, man,
I seen him talking to the police last
What?
Talking to who?
Aw, man, I'm afraid they might be in jail.
About what?
Why?
What'd he do?
Well, I don't know, man.
You don't have to do much, you know?
See, I'm tired of eating this fast food three
times a day and all that stuff, man.
You know, this truck starts to
make done look good.
Truck engine don't stop running and rough
and all that crazy crap, you know?
And I can't get no mechanic work done.
Got blasted off.
on that?
Soundcheck is four o now
it's six o 'clock
The doors are locked with no
help from nothing, man
Jesus
Start late, man, and then they want to deduct
half the pay and stuff like that
What do they expect?
I mean, we're a traveling group,
you know what I mean?
Booking agent, booking all gigs, crazy and stuff,
you know what I mean?
And it's hard, man,
to try to go from this place to that place in the town
I mean, what the hell do they think this is?
I mean, the
PA system's bad
On the road
They won't let us use our own,
you know what I mean?
It's tough
On the road
But so many people want you to be playing country,
western, and thick, man
On the road
This is a blues band,
and we want a blues audience, you know
On the road
If you country folks want to get into the blues,
that's fine with me, you know
On the road
After the show, man,
we have to load everything back into the truck, man
On
if we're lucky, maybe we can have
a party somewhere, you know
On the road
And if this party's what I think it is, I
know somebody's gonna be glad, you know
On the road
With mushrooms and all that good stuff, you know,
and some salad, you know what I mean?
On the road
And I'll be glad when all this
shit comes to an end
Luther Allison 
