Knott's Merry Farm Season Ends

Hi!

I hope everyone has enjoyed the holidays with the people you love.

I was also at Knott's Merry Farm on New Year's Eve (afternoon) and New Year's Day with our gig at Cars Land in between. It's been a busy holiday. Wow, nine sets of music on Jan. 31st of 2015 between both So. Cal. amusement parks. I'm sure that's a record for me. I've got one more date at Knott's tomorrow, Jan. 3rd, and that will end the "Merry" season for us.

It's been a lot of Kelly, Art, and I for the KRB Trio here at the end of the Knott's Merry Farm season. This is from Dec. 31st. We wore our red Scully shirts.

On a break we walked back to the "crew's nest" (what they call the employee cafeteria). The maze for the "Knott's Scary Farm" has been completely removed. You may have seen it in a previous post.

I took this opportunity to get a closer look at that mosaic on the building in the background. It's very nicely done. The old snake oil salesman wagon is pretty cool too.

The next day, New Year's Day 2016, we are back on stage with our gold Scully shirts.

Here again is Amanda, taking good care of us on stage. She's been my favorite stage tech. For being only 25 years old she is really professional, fun, and very competent. We're all going to miss her. (Sorry for the over exposure.)

This is just a glimpse down the hallway from our dressing room as Art goes to the little guitar player's room.

And here is my first amp-selfie for 2016.

Did I tell you that I've got only one more date at Knott's? Yep, tomorrow the season will be over. It's been a great run. The kids still love getting up in front of the stage to play all of our rhythm instruments and sing "Jingle Bells" and "Rudolf". The parents love taking pictures. There's talk of having us back for their spring break festivities. I hope so. Knott's is a really fun place, a little more homey, cheesy, cornball, down home, country neighbor kind of place.

I still have not ridden the "Xcelerator" coaster. I'm going to try to ride it after I get off tomorrow. It's the tall pink and green coaster on the left. Woo hoo!

Yesterday I also took a selfie with a friend in Santa's Christmas Cabin.

Well, here we are for the last day. We played our last shows at Knott's Merry Farm on Sunday, Jan. 3rd. It's been a great run, really fun.

Our lovely sound tech, Amanda, joins us on stage for one last picture.

Amanda was always on the ball, making sure the stage gear was set up, making sure Art plugged in his guitar, having a mic ready for when Kelly forgot to bring her own. (Kelly tried to bring her own mic so as not to give or receive any cold germs, but she forgot it more often than not.) Did you see the guy photobomb us with the peace sign?

Right after Amanda took this picture she asked Kelly, "Do you have your other hat?"

So Kelly sent someone back to our dressing room to get her other hat so Amanda could take another picture.

The crowds for the last day were very enthusiastic. They even liked my corny jokes. It was kind of sad but many of the people we met, both employees and guests, said they would catch us at The Ranch. That'll be fun.

Art seems a little upset that we have to leave the park for the last time. We're rolling our gear out to the parking lot.

The management and staff really liked all the different variations of the trio and there was a lot of talk about having us back in the spring for their big boysenberry season. I don't know if they'll want a trio on a little stage or the whole band on the big stage. We'll invite the big cheeses out to The Ranch so we can showcase the whole band. I don't think the new chief exec has seen the whole band live but the entertainment director, Julie, loves us. She even knows my name.

This engagement wasn't a big production like our "Nashville" show was a Disney last summer. As enjoyable as that was, our Knott's run was actually more fun because it wasn't scripted by corporate execs. We could let our hair down a bit and really have fun with the audiences. The folks at Knott's like a little "Hee Haw" in their entertainment.

I have certainly enjoyed our run at Knott's "Merry" Farm, "The Merriest Place In The West". The Knott's Berry Farm slogan is "America's First Theme Park, California's Best Theme Park". It certainly is a great time.

Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff