Reno Reno Reno

Posted by Lisa E

I was in the Reno Hilton walking through the hall to the Pavilion. My mom had to stop and look and the jewelry display over on the side. I was standing there and guess who was walking in my direction on the same side of the hall? No other than Chris with a guy in the crew! I tried to say, "Hi Chris" so he'd look over, but I couldn't. Nothing would come out. I totally lost my voice! As soon as he walked past I was all, "That's him! That's him!" 3 girls were walking up all giggling because they saw him too. When Chris got farther down the hall, he turned his head back to look and there was 5 of us girls standing there staring at him. It was such a nice surprise seeing him before the show. He looked so cute! For the life of me, I can't remember what he was wearing though.

The show was great. Chris wore that sequined purple velvet suit. The songs I remember are, in no particular order,: Flying, Black Flowers, Please, Speak of the Devil, San Francisco Days, Diddley Daddy, BDABBT, Forever Blue, Supermagic2000, Wicked Game, Wine Wine Wine, Only the Lonely, Blues Stay Away, Blue Hotel, I want Your Love, Don't Get So Down On Yourself, Go walking Down There, Bonnie Bee. Plus some tidbits such as Blue Moon, a song with the words 'Honky Tonk', & Spinning Wheels. When he came out with the mirrored suit the back of the stage had some silver streamer type curtains that seemed to amplify the shine. During Please the alternate lyrics someone posted here were running through my head.

The stories. I'll put down all I can remember. Don't quote me on these. I don't have a photographic memory. He told the gasoline one. The part about chasing her around the bed after setting her on fire was so funny. When he said something about chasing with a piece of toast in hand I started laughing so hard. I wasn't expecting toast to be in the story. The story about coming back to the hotel room to get more money to gamble with. The mirrored-wall room (then he looked back at Kenney). "Honey?" But she's gone. The bed's all messed up. It looks like some poodles were slaughtered in there. You look on the bed and see what looks like poodle hairs. So you scoop them up and send them to your friend in Missouri who works for the FBI. A couple weeks later he call and says, "MR. Isaak? Those aren't poodle hairs. They're goatee hairs with a slight scent of Summer's Eve (then Chris said to us, "Am I going a little too far for you guys?). The story about rescuing Herschel from a life of playing in seedy dives. You may know Kenney from his missionary work. He's called Reverend(minister?) Kenney. Kenney says to me, "You got to check this out." So we go in Kenney's flesh-colored Ford Probe to 4th St in Reno. I will never forget that Ford Probe. So we get to the place and on the window there's a sign that reads 'Fritzi and Amber. Exotic dancing'. That's not dancing. I took a dancing class in junior college. (Chris looked over at Roly and said, "What you do at night ain't dancing either"). It's [exotic dancing] degradation of women (Chris looked back at Kenney and said, "See, I told you they'd buy it"). I'm a church boy so I don't go into places like that. I was out in the parking lot getting coerced for 45 minutes to go in there. Well, more like 2 hours 45 minutes. So we went inside and Kenney points to the guy behind the dancers. He's arguing with himself and losing. He's singing, "...someday I'll be in a band with a good-looking sequined singer. But first I may have to play with Chris Isaak for several years..." So I went up to him and held out my hand. We've cleaned him up a quite a bit since then. I was taking a risk to shake his hand since I'm so up on my hygiene and all. We had removed 6 pounds of moles from his body.

Some more highlights. A girl said something like, "I'm going to get you." and jumped up onto the stage. She tried grabbing Chris' butt but he was too quick and hid behind Herschel. When the girl was being escorted back off the stage Chris ran up and got her butt. He said, "It's only fair." Then he said, "She tried to grab my posterior but my mirrors protect me." During Bonnie Bee Chris ran out into the audience and found a 10 year old girl to bring onstage. When he asked her her age the audience started hooting when she said 10. He said, "okay, I was a little off." Several moments later he said, "I'm only 12."

It looks like they're finally selling Speak of the Devil posters! I have to get some at on of the Warfield shows. Afterwards, I waited for quite a while in the hall for my mom to meet me. We went to Chevy's and our table was right on the side so we could watch the people in the casino stroll by. I saw Doug walk by a couple times. This total nerd that worked at a Keno table was across the way in my mom's view. She kept on winking and smiling at him. Then he kept walking through Chevy's and out the other way so many times for no apparent reason. I was laughing so hard! When we left I saw Kenney, Doug, and their ladies sitting at the bar. That's about all I remember.

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