This isn't a story about all the foxy girls musicians get, we all know about that that's why we became players in the first place.
First, I'm one of the straightest people around. I drink just enough to be sociable but no drugs, ever. I'm in Yakima Washington around 1970 playing and staying at the Commercial Hotel. I pick up a dancer from the strip club next door and she takes me to a little house on a quiet street, it's maybe 3am. We do our thing and just as we finished around 4 or 4:30 the SWAT team shows up. 3 or 4 cops bust in and I see more outside. Lots of guns and bright lights. One of them holding some sort of big gun tells me to sit there and don't move while a 2 more go right to the kitchen, I hear noise like they're ripping out something and they come out with 2 or 3 bags of stash. They obviously knew exactly where it was. They take her right away and ask me who I am and I explain I just got into town from California a few days ago and just met her that night. I also told him I was a former Air Force intelligence analyst and didn't have any clue about what was going on here. I kept myself under control and made my answers as short and professional as I could under the circumstances but I was crapping bullets believe me. Thank whoever that she didn't offer me anything (I wouldn't have taken it but it still could have been sitting there) and wasn't using herself. Nothing in the front room but a couple of beers. I then ask if I can put my pants on and he says ok after checking my pockets and ID. He gives me two choices. You can get all righteous and start talking about police abuse and your civil rights and all that and we'll take you downtown, book you as an accessory and get you introduced to all the public defenders or you can go with one of the officers to the station and sit there quietly, no phone calls and someone will drive you back to the hotel when this is over. I gave him a pleasant smile and said I'll take choice #2, thank you very much. The next day the news is full of the largest drug bust in Tri-State history, they arrested over a hundred people and confiscated who knows what.
This could have been a life changing disaster. I've told this story to lots of young people over the years, told them you don't want to be caught in the middle of something like this, trust me.
I was a bit more careful about who I went with after that.

Bob

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