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*Forward - Why I wrote this book

How did I become a "Roadie"

My First Gig (Blue Oyster Cult) Photo

Roadie School

The Big Apple (Talking Heads, Loudon Wainwright III, and Peter Allen)

Hell must have stairs (Jonathon Edwards)

The show must go on? (Sly & Family Stone with Dr. Hook)

*False Arrest (Roadie Adventure)

Harry (Harry Chapin)

The Hurricane (Livingston Taylor)

Low Bridge (Roadie Adventure)

Human Target (Tom Waits)

A Really Hot Show (The Outlaws)

Very Funny (Bill Cosby & George Carlin)

Bad Vibes (Gordon Lightfoot )

Elvis has left the building (Elvis Costello)

Rock Candy (Montrose with Ambrosia)

Be Prepared (Tour Preperation)

Shocking Experience (Tom Petty)

Get Down Tonight (KC & Sunshine Band)

Attempted Murder (Patti SmithPhoto

Garden Party (Rick Nelson & the Stone Canyon Band)

Luck of the Irish (Horselips)

No Checks Please (Road Finance)

Gimme Three Steps (Lynryd Skynyrd)

Heartless (Tours that weren't to be, Jeff Beck, Bob Marley, and Heart)

Class Acts (Ray Charles, BB King, and Joan Baez)

Hello Dolly (Dolly Parton)

My First Tour (Jean-Luc Ponty)

Rosie (Roadie love story inspired by a Jackson Browne song)

*A Day in the Life (typical 24 hours of life on the road)

Ode to Mary Jo (Roadie love story)

Bonnie Raitt's Shower

There's no place like home (Roadies drop in and visit the folks)

Cultural Exchange (Roadie Adventure)

Oil's well that ends well (Roadie Adventure)

Just for Openers (Little River Band, Larry Coryell, Roger McGuinn)

How Much Wood Can A Woodchopper Chop? (Groupies)

California Dreaming (California leg of JLP tour)

Viva Las Vegas (Queen)

Truck Driver's daughters (Roadie love story)

Road Etiquette (Do's and Don'ts of the road)

Quickies (Taj Mahal, Dave Mason, Gene Roddenbury, Rick Derringer, The Spinners, and REO Speedwagon)

Road Politics (Michael Franks, Charlie Daniels, Greg Allman, and Robert Palmer)

Rarely Tour the Earth (Rare Earth)

Hay, you must be Buck Owens (Buck Owens and a show done from a hay wagon)

Carole King  Photo

Let there be light (New Riders of the Purple Sage and Commander Cody

My Fall during the Spring Tour (Roadie mis-Adventure)

Mistake by the Lake (Roadie love story)

The Fix (Roadie Adventure)

Cold Shower (Roadie Adventure)

Turn it up (Pat Metheny)

Do Not Disturb (Roadie Adventure)

If this is Tuesday, this must be Cincinnati (Cincinnati Roadie Adventure)

Hot fun in the Summertime (Roadie Adventure)

Road Cliches

Turning Japanese (Jean-Luc Ponty Japan Tour)

Familiar Journey (Journey and Ronnie Montrose)

More Quickies (Natalie Cole, Lou Rawls, Head East, Wet Willie, Billy Cobham, Blood Sweat & Tears, and LaBelle)

Parlez-Vous Français? (Roadie Adventure in France)

My Paris Vacation (Roadie love story)

Very Nice (Nice, France)

The British are coming (British roadie lingo)

Border Crossing (Sezana Yugoslavia during the cold war)

Yugoslavia (Jean-Luc Ponty)

Iron Curtain Call (crossing into Berlin before the wall was down)

Scandinavia (More JLP)

Rainbow at the end of the Tour (London at the Rainbow Theatre)

*Lana (Patti Smith and a Roadie love story)

Breakfast in Canada (Opening for Supertramp in Canada)

The Final Tour (Jean-Luc Ponty)

Home Grown (Omaha Roadie Adventure)

Union Dues (St Louis Roadie Adventure)

The Palladium (New York Roadie Adventure)

Cleveland Massacre (The end of my Roadie career)

Epilogue

*Glossary (Roadie terms and lingo)

*Karl's Roadie Rules (15 rules to live by on the road)

Artist List (partial listing of the artists I worked with)

*Biography - Karl Kuenning


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