After the show, James screamed, “Y’all did great! Y’all killed me!! I’m going to give you $225.” And we were happy with that. Then he said, “Naw, I’m gonna give you $250.” And we thought, “Wow, a raise that quick!” Anyway, he did this counting all the way up to $450. The whole time, we were writing the amount on paper. Finally, James said, “What is that y’all are writing down?” We had to write it down so we knew how much to divide up between us. James laughed out, “Naw! You ain’t splittin’ nothing. That’s for each of you!” Good money.
We had an old Dodge station wagon. We went from that to a Golden Eagle bus and a truck stocked full of brand-new Vox equipment. James and the Beatles were the only ones that had Vox endorsements. We had three changes of uniform, matching shoes… it was a trip. We were pinching ourselves like crazy because we couldn’t believe it.
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