Lana Nelson has posted some great photos she took of Willie Nelson and Family, at Willie’s Official website at www.WillieNelson.com that are sure to make you smile.
Thanks, Lana, for sharing life on the road with us fans!
These fans are serenading Willie Nelson on his bus. What a great idea! I wonder what they are singing. So much nicer than a couple dozen ebayers out there waiting for him to sign something they can sell.
Oh, doesn’t that bus look happy to be back in Colorado! Hope you come back soon.
Willie Nelson & Family were in Colorado and performed at the World Arena last night in Colorado Springs. I took these pictures on my way to the venue yesterday.
Thanks to Dallas Wayne, on Willie’s Place on Sirius/XM Radio, for reporting that Willie Nelson is taping a segment for the Craig Ferguson show on CBS this afternoon.
Friday night is turning into a must-see-tv night. According to CBS, the show with Willie Nelson will air tomorrow night. That’s at 11:30 here in Colorado.
Earlier on tv tomorrow night, Willie Nelson will appear on Larry King’s show on CNN. That’s on at 7:00 and replayed at 10:00 here in Colorado. Willie taped that show yesterday. There is a video on you-tube of Willie leaving his bus, and walking into CNN building, but I am so upset with all the e-bayers in the video, and the paparazzi hassling Willie, I can’t repost it. Willie is so polite to everyone, answering their questions (“What do you think of Jesse James?” “He was a good bank robber,” responded Willie). It bothered me the way they yell out to him. I guess that’s what they do. I know people are going to try and make a buck off Willie, but at least they can be polite. I can’t imagine how tiring that must get for Willie, everywhere he goes, to get mobbed like that. Willie is so quick and witty. Someone yelled out, ‘Willie, how do you deal with all your crazy fans?” or something like that, and Willie said, “I don’t have any.” Thank you, Willie.
Cherie and I spotted the Honeysuckle Rose pulling into its bus bay last night, on our way back into the Theater.
Lana Nelson posted this picture of the Honeysuckle Rose in Wisconsin, where Willie Nelson and Family are on tour. For more pictures from life on the road, visit:
www.WillieNelson.com.
I don’t usually cover celebrity pot-bust stories, but the repeated harassment of Willie Nelson’s tour bus is ridiculous and it needs to stop:
The strong odor of marijuana wafting from the window of a Willie Nelson tour bus led to six members of the country singer’s entourage getting busted in Duplin County for possession of marijuana and three-fourths of a quart of moonshine, law enforcement officials said. [News Observer]
Seriously, if anyone has a problem with what a bunch of aging musicians do in their tour bus, then don’t go in there. If these guys were a legitimate threat to public safety, it shouldn’t take a probable cause search to catch them. If they’d run a Church choir off the highway wasted on shrooms and moonshine, that would be a different story, but they’re super old and it’s clear by now that they can be trusted.
To dispel any confusion, I propose federal legislation clarifying the right of Willie Nelson and his associates to do whatever they feel is necessary in order to have an awesome time. The smell of potent cannabis emanating from their tour bus should be interpreted as a sign that everything is fine.
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle_blog/2010/feb/02/legalize_willie_nelsons_tour_bus
photos by Greg Rhoades
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Willie Nelson Tour Bus – 88 Greyhound Air Ride Bus.
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Budrock “Buddy” Prewitt, Willie Nelson’s lighting director, writes:
“This bus was called “the Scout” and was not Willie’s. This was Paul’s bus for awhile. Paul and the Band rode it for a few years after Willie gave the “Red Headed Stranger” Bus to the Crew.
Oh, and it is a Silver Eagle Bus Model 15. Greyhound had the same style busses in their fleets, but this one was built in Florida especially for touring bands. It was never a Greyhound.”
Thanks, Buddy!
And then Wayne from Silver Eagle, wrote:
This bus was built in Texas and never had air ride, this bus has torsion ride with independent suspension. Eagles were always the preferred bus for the stars since they rode better than Air Ride buses like Greyhounds, MCI’s and presently those Prevosts.
They started making these buses in Nashville, TN again and the country stars are waiting for the good ride and American Workmanship.
All other buses, Greyhound, MCI’s and Prevosts are foreign, rough riding, over priced buses.”– Wayne
Hi Linda,
You are so wise to be inspired by Willie. I just found him this last year, and have been lucky to have seen him in concert 4 times already, most recently in Knoxville, Nashville and Maui this New Year’s Eve.
I gave Willie a puka shell necklace in Nashville to remind him to come back to Maui, and apparently it worked!
Concert tidbits: Alanis Morrissette sang a duet with Willie, “To all the Girls/Boys I’ve loved before.”
Willie counted down to the New Year from 60 seconds, but got the crowd confused when he said several numbers twice and skipped a few.
Lukas continued to perform after his father left and came back for an encore (“Hana Hou” or “One more time” in Hawaiian.)
Willie Nelson’s bus has reclaimed it’s bus bay at Carl’s Corner, and Willie can pull his bus in when he is in town for shows or just to drop in and see what’s going on. The bus parked there this week when he played at Willie’s Place on Wednesday.
I never understood why Willie’s private parking spot was remodelled into a pool hall. There’s other places at Carl’s they can use for their pool tournaments.
“It make me feel good to gaze out of the windows of the bus at the towns and signs and landscapes going past,” says Willie Nelson. “It’s like the other side of the feeling I got when I was a little kid and heard a railroad train whistling and rumbling into the distance in the middle of the night. This is what might have happened if you had ever really caught that mysterious midnight train.”
“You’ve got a home, but you don’t have to stay too long in one place,” he says. “My bus is like a cocoon too that I can seal myself up in in if I need to be alone… I can be close enough to the so-called real world that I could reach out and touch it from inside Honeysuckle Rose, yet I can be as quiet and alone as I wish.”
– Willie Nelson
