Everyone wanted him to leave, but he wasn't even around and we didn't know if we had a gig or not. So we made our own posters advertising us as "New England's Most Naive Rock & Roll Band. We drove 2000 miles because Warren Stickney promised us a thousand bucks." Stickney seemed kind of bummed about them when we finally met him, but he admitted that, given his reputation, we had a point. He ended up actually paying us a thousand bucks - except for a $155 check that bounced - but we had to play ten nights to earn it. We stayed on the floor in a house called the Purple Palace.

Stickney managed to get us a gig in Aspen on our way home. We stayed with a friend of a former roommate of Fish's, but we made the mistake of leaving all our money in a folder in the kitchen and someone stole it. Other than that, our first tour was a raging success.