We missed our flight from Nashville to Fort Lauderdale, caught the next one, and arrived at the festival just in time to scarf down some grilled chicken and take the stage. Brody unpacked the merchandise suitcases to find that 1)Southwest airlines had destroyed my very expensive credit card machine in flight and 2)the TSA (Transportaton Security Administration) had pried open our metal cash box with what looks like a chain saw and a stick of dynamite. Then I sold three CDs. Three. To the two women manning the CD table for us. Three.
I was thankful to be alive, have a full stomach, and be playing music for a living but I was very much hoping the rest of our day was a little more, I don’t know, fantastic maybe?
And it was.
We drove up to Jupiter, Florida and spent the evening at a minor league baseball game where Brant Hansen was doing the play by play. He announces games from time to time, seemingly just for fun. And fun was had.
It was “Dog Days of Summer” at the ballpark. Every kind of dog related product and service one could imagine was represented by the booths in the concessions area and every fourth being in the stands was in fact a real live canine of some sort. We have video.
Even better? Brant announcing, “Ladies and gentlemen, we have a celebrity with us tonight. Please welcome Nashville recording artist…Brody Harper and his road manager Shaun Groves to the game. Please welcome…Brody…Harper.” (A faint smattering of applause followed.)
Even better than that? Periodic announcements for the night’s sponsor “Urine B-Gone.”
Yes, folks. Brant Hansen. Brody Harper. And two wiener dogs fighting. All of it on tape. But no cable to get it from camera to computer. It’ll just have to wait. For about a week.
We play here in Port St.Lucy tonight and then take off for Jamaica tomorrow morning. See you tonight at the show or back here in a few days.
Patiently (NOT!) waiting for the video and Brody’s next softrockin’ performance.
Beth
Its almost like we were there…
Shaun – sorry about the lack of fantasticness at the festival – howvever, I am glad that we got the chance to chat ever so briefly after your set. Rock out in Jamaica!
Who said I was a “soft rocker”?
This morning, I got a call from a very enthusiastic person who saw your live performance of “Flea Market Montgomery” on Saturday. She said it was hilarity squared.
She was even describing the song on the way TO the show, to a friend, and was elated when you broke into it. Nice.
I think “Urine-B-Gone” would make for a nice tour sponsor.
Hey Shaun!
I just wanted to say that I was there at the festival at Ft. Lauderdale and loved your performance! Especially your rendition of the mall rap (though I would have loved to hear you rap – even if it was two or three lines). You are one talented musician and quite a comedian (I agree with you about the flies – though there aren’t that many down in Miami, which is even souther than Ft. Lauderdale). lol But seriously, I play guitar, and to see you play guitar made me feel quite insignificant. You’re awesome!
Anyways, I really enjoyed your music and would have bought a CD, but I didn’t see where to buy them
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Keep rocking!
~*Christine*~
Christine,
Go to the top and click on the button that says SHOP all the way to the right. You can buy any of Shaun’s CD’s there…and you could even get some M&M’s that say shaungroves.com and shlog.com!
So I was all set and ready to see you play at the festival, but Brant informed me that you were playing at 4:15 or something, it was 3:00 and I was currently handing him his…rear end on a video game.
My friend who was driving down from Lakeland to see you play since I talked you up on how great of a soft rock star you were, did not get there until 5pm so yep we missed you, entirely! Anyway I caught highlights from Brant Sunday and look forward to catching you in town the next time around…if I am still here.
The south Florida festival was put together about as well as Chevy Citation. There was no way of finding out when certain bands were playing, so as you can see it was russian roulet concert style for the concert goers.
Take care and have fun on the love boat with Brody.
It must be hard being ridiculously good looking
That was nice of Brody to take the hit for you…you’d hate the be forever associated with Urine B-gone.
Hey Shaun, my truck got broken into @ the Ft Lauderdale Festival. I was parked in the vendor/volunteer parking lot and someone gutted the lock on the driver door and stole my iPod and some paperwork.
I feel your pain. Thanks for coming down. It was awesome!