A Dickie Story:
It was a daytime outdoor concert at U of F on Lake Alice Field decades back when it was
Dickie Betts Band and Great Southern for maybe 10,000 students.
I was working the monitors on stage left and in the middle of his show the amp (Crown D-60a) driving his personal stage monitor HF horn failed. Since the band has a lot going on onstage, was rather loud, and we were outdoors uncovered, it was very hard to figure where or what the noise was we were hearing, that was mere feet from Dickie and pointed right at him. He ended losing it mid song, and without a word pushed his monitor off the front of the stage, took his guitar and knocked down all the microphones onstage including a number of cymbals ( there were 3 drummers?) and stomped off stage and entered the RV dressing room right behind the stage. The band was dumbfounded and slowly came to a stop, and also walked off stage and they entered the same RV.
As we are working on stage to get the tech end under control as the audience patiently waits, we notice the RV shaking back and forth as we hear commotion inside.
The RV window next to the entrance door suddenly opens and Dickie comes slivering out head first falling to the ground.
The RV entrance door slams open, and 3 or 4 irate large size fellow band members coming charging out and pick Dickie up and they proceed to shove him back thru the RV window, headfirst, and then quickly return to enter the RV and the commotion continues.
15 minutes later they all return to the stage and the show continues like nothing ever happened.
BTW, it was widely shared back in the day that Dickie had a Black belt.
