We’ve been having probems with the Big Red Taiko Van. It’s an intermittent electrical problem tht causes random ignition coils to misfire or read as if they are misfiing.
Trying to get the problem diagnosed put me about 12 hours behnd schedule.
Then, just past Battle Mountain, NV…and before mile marker 235…the van lost a tire. (right rear).
It went very wel all things considered. The whole tire didn’t blow. I made it to the side of the road. I had road flares…and so on.
I’m glad I had the sense to call AAA. It took the AAA guy a chunk of time to get to it and change it.
One odd thing about being in battle mountain, though…my phone goes all wonky. When I called the AAA emergency road service number, I got connected to the dispatcher in Oklahoma, and for the most part my phone thought it was in Chicago (using the clock auto-update feature)
In Moab now getting new tires, an alignment job and trying to rest up.
Ok…so that’s the brief little snippet of an update I had started to post on the way outbound to MU Daiko’s concert in MN. Who would have ever guessed the further adventures (and misadventures) that were to ensue!?
I may try to lay it all out in chronological order at some point…in all my copious amounts of spare time…with photo documentation. (don’t hold your breath)
Concert production and touring at a working class band level is not for the faint of heart, lemmetellya!