Re: NPC ... Poco & Texas Surf

["rslovacek" <rslovacek>]

    Speaking of Poco, the same night KoffeeDonutz sent us the url for the Poco
site, I found a new site for the Texas Surf Museum (YES, Texas gets very good
surf sometimes, HMPH!).  Here's the pertinent part...

         I'd attended one of Poco's concerts listed (Dec. 3, 1972), with
Commander Codeine & the Lost Planet Airmen, and Hot Tuna.  BTW, Papa John
Creach was in Hot Tuna that night (VBSEG).  Anyway, everybody played REAL
long, and about 2am, while Tuna was still playing, I went home, cuz there were
good waves and I wanted to hit it in the morning.

                Ok, now's where this gets good.   On the new Surf Museum site,
there's a clip of ME on one of the waves from that next day.  A GOOD and
unusually long wave, lots of fast HUGE cutbacks, couple of tubes.  At the late
Surfside Pier.  Needless to say I kept watching the clip over and over.  With
"Now the Time Has Come" imbedded with the clip, along with another song.
WHEEEE!  It's listed as Clip 1.

                        Here's the bummer part.  I finally saw the bottom of
the surfer's board, and it ain't me  :(    We definitely didn't have 3-finners
back then, and it's visible in the last frame.  All the other parts fit, cuz
it was a warm day with warm water, so most of us weren't wearing wetsuits.
        Well, it was a helluva exciting time for a while, thinking one of my
rides was on display.  I'm yet again basically undocumented.  BTW, ya'll who
know me as Slipcheck, I got that nick from an earlier surfboard with a fancy
Slipcheck job (that was spray-on sandpapery stuff, to replace wax on the tail
and nose)

Hang ten, ya'll all
                                --Bob

ps: At that same concert, I *think* that a local group named Ice or Ice-9
played.  They were basically the 13th Floor Elevators, but without Roky
Ericson or the guy on electric jug.   Guitarist Stacy Sutherland was tired of
Roky not showing up so he'd made a Plan B.  They rocked!