Damage was heaviest to fixtures and breakables. Owner Patrick commented on the destruction: “This was the worst demonstration, I’ve ever seen, worse even than that last concert in Belgium. But I’ll tell . you, I’d book that bunch in here steady if I could get ’em! I offered their agent everything short of a blank check and he turned me down. Said if I wanted to hear the group again I’d have to come to the Atheneum in Los Angeles. It didn’t affect me the way it did those kids, but there’s no doubt about it, that lead of theirs, Whitehorse, really has something special.”
(In Los Angeles, John Nat Burns, millionaire owner and builder of the Atheneum, refused to comment on band agent Samuel Parker’s statement).
Discussing the band’s performance, several members of the audience remarked on the interesting optical effect achieved when lead singer WilUe Whitehorse’s guitar seemed to take on the outline of a small animal. Some say it was a fox, others insist it was a wolf. All agree the technical device, probably achieved with offstage lights, was quite well done.
VI.
Sam leaned back in the chair in his Wilshire office and contentedly surveyed the list resting on the desk
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in front of him. It was a list of U.S. cities, and it was now more than three-quarters full. Stops on their first nationwide tour, if tonight’s concert came off.
Word-of-mouth is a wonderful thing. No less than six major record companies had waved contracts at him in the two weeks since Seattle. When they heard the minimum terms Sam would accept, they reacted in various ways, from mild amusement to outright dis-‘ gust. Sam smiled to himself. After tonight’s concert they’d beg to sign on his terms.