The Derailers, July 3, 2001
  
 
A pleasantly warm evening at the Tractor Tavern, in the Ballard section of Seattle...
 
The evening started at the Azteca Mexican Restaurant on the north side of the conjuncture of the Lake Washington Ship Canal and Puget Sound, in Ballard, with John and Jeanie...
 
     
 
From our table we looked out upon the ship canal, where we could see scores of large salmon jumping up and out of the water, capturing low flying insects that ventured into harm's way. These salmon were presumably ascending the canal to, and through, the Ballard Locks, and on into Lake Union and Lake Washington and eventually into the spawning streams of the Cascades...
 
Whilst our food was prepared the sun set over the Puget Sound and the distant Olympic Mountains... as the full moon rose to the east...
 
Then it was on to the Tractor Tavern...
         
 
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Click here to see shots from a Derailers show at the Tractor Tavern on September 15, 2000...
 
Flashback:
It was my pleasure to have booked The Derailers for a show at Jack Straw's, in Charlotte, back in 1997 near the end of my stint in the music business. Click here are a few shots from that show...