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TUTTFS Runs Wild in '07
Last update 1-13-07
TUTTFS at the Wildhorse Saloon for the Tanya Tucker Family Christmas Concert - December, 2007
Part of the TUTTFS gang met up in front of the Wildhorse Saloon prior to going in: Casey, Mark, Natalie and Alabama Dee.
Natalie, Mark, Florida Dee and Alabama Dee
Once inside the Wildhorse we met up with Linda (IN) and her husband Jim.
Leon traveled from Norway to Nashville for this very special concert. Great to see you again Leon!! L to R: Leon, Florida Dee, Natalie and Mark;
Double Dee's and the Trace Adkins look-a-like bouncer from the Wildhorse. He thought TUTTFS was a lot of fun and to be sure and come back again!
Double Dee's showing of their double TT jackets.
John Deere's (NM) Christmas Gift:
The "We Love Ya" T-shirt - that about says it all, don't it?
Metropolis - October 13th, 2007
Photos by Natalie, Linda and Ralph
Check out the story on the Metropolis Concert Photo Page.
A Series of Unfortunate Events - Opry Night - October 5th, 2007
Photos by Natalie and story by Alabama Dee... copying of photos and story prohibited without permission from the photographer and author. Nobody but TUTTFS would believe this stuff anyway!
I had my car packed and headed out of Mobile, AL
towards Nashville with TT's "Ridin Out The Heartache" blaring on my radio (I
always start out my TT road trips with that song) at 2 am Friday morning, Oct.
5th. The trip went smooth, no traffic, I got to Natalie's apt. at 9 am. She
said to call her when I got close, cause sometimes she doesn't hear the door
when she's sleeping. Well I had the address for her apartment complex, but not
her apartment #! So I sit out in my car and call her about half a dozen
times...but she doesn't answer her phone!!! So now what the hell am I gonna
do??? I call Fl. Dee at work and see if she can look up Natalie's address on her
computer. She calls me back a little while later with it and I go up and pound
on Natalie's door til she wakes up and finally answers her door!!!
First thing we find out is we have an email from Mark ..... he's sick as a dog
and isn't gonna be able to come!!!! Shit...that's a real bummer...cause we know
how much Mark was looking forward to this!!!! But hopefully he'll be well enough
to come down on the 10th for the Steve Cropper Show on TT's birthday. Next thing
we gotta do is find somebody who wants to use Mark's ticket...can't let a $50
ticket to the Opry go to waste!!! So Natalie gets on her phone and starts
calling everybody she knows...finally gets one of her friends from work, Lisa,
to go! She's never been to the Opry and isn't a big country music fan or Tanya
Tucker fan....but have no fear..we'll have her converted before the night is
over....trust me!!! LMAO
So Friday night we head out to the Opry...Natalie, Lisa and I...Bobbie is gonna
meet us there. As we're walking to the Opry from the parking lot...I DROP AND
BREAK FL. DEE'S CAMERA that she loaned me to take pictures with!!! (And NO ... I
hadn't had anything to drink at this point!) All I can think is how
Fl.Dee is gonna KILL me....thank God Natalie brought her digital camera...so at
least we got something! I remember saying...."I hope this isn't a sign of how
this night is gonna go"...and Natalie immediately said..."DON'T YOU DARE SAY
THAT! But it was too late I'd already said it! Little did I know exactly
how much worse it was gonna get!
So we meet up with Bobbie and go in and find our seats! Holy shit....we're right
down in front of the stage just a couple rows back...this is just too cool to
be true!!! So it's about 10 minutes, before the show starts and I gotta go out
and have one last smoke before it starts...LMFAO!
Just as the lights start to dim, one of Natalie and Bobbie's friends comes out
from back stage and tells us "Tanya ISN'T GONNA BE THERE"!!!! WELL, ALL OF OUR
JAWS DROPPED TO THE FLOOR!! I SAID "YOU'RE SHITTING US, RIGHT?" She says "NO,
I'M NOT..she just called and said she missed her flight....Jack, her drummer and
Marcia her backround vocalist are both backstage and they're totally
devastated!!!!" So a few minutes later another one of Natalie and Bobbie's
friends come out and tell us it's TRUE...TANYA IS'NT COMING!!!" I don't
know about Natalie, Bobbie and Lisa...but I feel like a horse just kicked me in
the gut! I don't know if I'm gonna cry or puke!!!
So we all get up and march out of there just as the shows starting...and we head
for the ticket office...we're pissed as hell and bound and determined we're
gonna get our money back! So we march up to the ticket counter and tell them we
came all the way from Mobile, Al. at 2 am that morning just to see Tanya Tucker
at the Opry, and some of our friends came out from backstage and told us she
missed her flight and she was'nt gonna be there! Well, they did'nt know a thing
about it, so they started making some calls to confirm what we were telling
them. While they were on hold, somebody came in from backstage and told them it
was true. Tanya had just called to cancel! Then they proceeded to give us the
"Normal Opry spiel about how guests were subject to change...blah,blah, blah..."
but we stood our ground and said we weren't leaving till they refunded our
money....bottom line...we raised enough hell till they finally realized it was
better to refund our money than to have us there raising holy hell, So they
refunded our money and we left....FOUR TOTALLY PISSED OFF MOTHER TUCKERS!!!!
After leaving the Opry, we decided to head downtown and go honkey tonkin'
and
try and drown our sorrows. Much to our surprise, since Oct. 1st, you can't smoke
at any of the bars on one side of Broadway...so Nat and Lisa headed out to find
one we could smoke in. Bobbie and I walked past Jack's B-B-Q and suddenly
realized we were starving half to death. That's the same place Fl.Dee, Casey and
I ate during Fan Fair. If ya'll ever get to Nashville, ya gotta eat there! The
food is fantastic and the prices are very reasonable! So she and I went in and
ate.
Meanwhile, Nat and Lisa called us and said they were at 'ROBERT"S" and for
us to come there when we finished eating. So Bobbie and I headed out but we
could'nt find "Robert's"..so we went to the other side of the street where they
had bars you could smoke in, and we found a place called "The Wheel", the band
was just starting up and we found an empty table with 4 bar stools and grabbed
it, called Natalie and Lisa and they joined us there.
By then, the place was packed. Everybody ordered drinks and I of course,
ordered
my usual, a Margarita. But I was still so bummed out I had only taken a few sips
and everybody else was ordering their 2nd round. So they started "doggin'" me to
get started drinking, and got me two straws...LMFAO...then I finally ordered a
straight shot of tequilla...but when that shot hit..I was raring to go!!!! We
got the band to play Tanya's (or Merle Haggard's) " I Think I'll Just Here And
DRAAAAAAANK" AND IT WAS PARTY TIME!!! We forgot all about the Orpry....and
proceeded to make total fools of ourselves...as usual! LMFAO! I was still on my
first margaritta, I'm not sure how many beers the other girls had...but it had
to be ALOT!!!
Next thing I know...Bobbie kept ordering shots of tequilla for me and "HOT
DAMNS" for her. I do remember at one point I was up on the dance floor
making a total fool out of myself,,,and all of a sudden my dentures popped
out!!! OMG....well....I thought...I can walk off totally humiliated...or pop 'em
back in and keep going...so guess what??? You guessed it...I popped those
suckers back in and kept on going...I looked around to see if anyone had
noticed...and OH SHIT...everybody was laughing their asses off at me...thank god
Natalie did'nt get that part on video!!! LMFAO
After God only knows how many tequilla shots...the bar was starting to
close...so
Bobbie orders Nat, Lisa and herself another "HOT DAMN" SHOT AND ME ANOTHER
TEQUILLA SHOT.....and I knew it was the end of the road for me!!! Lisa had to
leave us..they poured my ass in the back of Nat's VW bug, Nat drove and Bobbie
rode shotgun!!! All I remember is Natalie telling me a freakin' hundred times if
I threw up in her car...she was gonna freakin' KILL ME!!!! We rode on rockin'
out to TT's songs on the cd player...two I remember..."STILL HOLD ON" AND "LET
THE TIMES GOOD ROLL"...then I passed out!!!
Check out our honky tonk videos on you tube.
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OK, so the next thing I know...Natalie and Bobbie
are trying to drag my drunk
ass out of the back seat of Nat's VW bug....I can't figure out where the hell we
are...looks to me like we're in the middle of bum f**k Egypt....(BFE)....it's
dark as hell..no lights anywhere,,,but I look up and the sky is clear as a
bell and the stars are TOTALLY AMAZING...so I figured I have died and gone to
heaven!!!! I'm just laying there on the grass staring up at the sky in TOTAL
AMAZEMENT at how beautiful the sky and stars are!!!
Next thing I know Natalie is grabbing one of my arms and Bobbie's grabbing the
other asking me if I can stand up??? I ask where the hell we are and they tell
me we're at the front gate of 'TUCKERVILLE"!!!!WHAT THE HEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLL are
we doing here??? They tell me we're all gonna stand
up
on the rock wall next to the front gate and take a group picture...Natalie,
Bobbie and Me!!! How the heeeeelllllll am I gonna get up on this rock wall??? I
can barely stand up!!! So they climb up and each of them reaches down to drag my
ass up there......only when they pulled me up...I WENT RIGHT OVER THE FREAKIN'
WALL and landed on the other side....THE TUCKERVILLE PROPERTY SIDE!!! Oh
Shiiiiiiittttttt! I landed straight down on my face and tried to use my right
hand to break my fall. I must have laid there the longest time....they kept
saying..."Dee...can you get up?" "Heeeellll NO, I can't get up!!! My right wrist
hurt a little...but somehow I got up and back over the wall and they managed to
pour my butt back in the back seat of Nat's Bug! Then I was out again tll we
get back to Nat's place and managed to get our butts to bed. BUT NO.....I DID
NOT PUKE!!!!
So the next morning I roll over in bed on my right arm and suddenly let out this
God awful scream of pain in my right wrist! I look down and one of the bones in
my wrist is jutted way out...and my arm is swollen the size of my leg!!! Oh
shit...I jump up and all of a sudden the throbbing pain hits my head...I start
to grab my head with both hands...then the pain shoots through my arm again!!!
This ain't good! I've NEVER had a broken bone before....but if my wrist ain't
broken..then I'm still a virgin!!!! LMFAO
Next thing I know..my cell phone is ringing! I hunt down my phone...finally find
it and listen to the voice mail. "This is so and so with Bank of America...we're
calling to let you know that a guy named Jerry so and so called and said he
found your wallet out at TANYA TUCKER'S RANCH first thing this morning!!!!!!"
and she leaves me his name and phone number to call him!!! OOOHHHHHH MYYYYYYY
GOD...........ARE WE IN TROUBLE NOW OR WHAT?????? So my head is
throbbing.....pains are shooting through my arm..and I'm pounding on Natalie's
bedroom door telling her to WAKE UP.....WE ARE IN DEEP SHIT THIS TIME!!!!
So I tell her what happened, show her my wrist and she starts freakin
out........
We finally decide the the best thing to do is tell the truth!
It turns out the guy who found my wallet is the guy who bought Tuckerville. Oh
shit! I don't know what side of the fence he found my wallet on... so I tell him
I drove all the way from Mobile to Nashville to see Tanya at the Opry, we had
front row seats and she didn't show, and we were four pissed-off mother Tuckers.
He was really nice and had a great sense of humor about the whole situation,
especially after I told him I broke my wrist falling off the rock wall. He told
us he'd be out there all day and to give him a call before coming out to pick up
the wallet.
So, next step... we have to go get the wallet that has my insurance card and
find an emergency room. Meanwhile he calls back and says he has to leave for an
appointment and he will leave my wallet on the rock wall. So we drive
out there and get the wallet and we turn at the first blue sign that has an "H"
and go into the emergency room. It turns out to be Williamson County Medical
Center, which just so happened to be the same ER that Tanya took her dad and
family to, and the staff knew her well, the nurse even serenaded us with a
terrible rendition of Delta Dawn. At first they said they were going to put my
arm into a splint and I'd be able to see an Ortho surgeon when I got back to
Mobile, but once the X-rays came back they said it was worse than they thought
and I wouldn't be able to wait, I needed to see the Ortho surgeon here in
Nashville on Tuesday. But in the meantime he gave me some REALLY good pain meds
that was almost as good as the tequila.
Fast-forward to Tuesday... I go see the surgeon and he pops the bone back into
place and puts me in a full-arm cast and says he thinks the fracture will heal
itself but I have to come back next Tuesday so he can check it out, which means
I'm in Nashville for another week. Natalie is probably ready to kick my ass to
the curb.
Check out the TUTTFS Returns to Tuckerville and Tanya's 49th Birthday Bash and Trip to Metropolis for the continuing saga of Alabama Dee and Natalie running wild.
TUTTFS and Tanya's 2007 Birthday Gift to FL Dee
Photos may not be used or copied without permission of the photographers: Dee (AL)
Florida Dee left her troubles behind and headed out to Mobile, Alabama Labor Day weekend to hop on a party bus with Alabama Dee for a Gretchen Wilson concert .....and some R and R on the Gulf Coast.
Meanwhile, Alabama Dee made covert plans to present FL Dee with a birthday gift from fellow TUTTFS members. Florida Dee is an admitted camera geek and was presented with an absolutely awesome 'Totally Unofficial Tanya Tucker Fan Site' custom embroidered camera strap. (Hot pink of course).
If Florida Dee had given
Alabama Dee the address where she works, she probably would have gotten a
stripper at her place of business and would most likely be unemployed as we
speak! So, Florida Dee is extremely grateful (more than ya'll know) and
proud of the TUTTFS camera strap that will now go everywhere she and her camera
decide to go.
Alabama Dee also gave Florida Dee the latest, greatest 'Tanya Tucker Some Kind of Trouble' shirt that can only be found at the Merchandise Booth at TT concerts (see Jim and Virginia for the latest merchandise).
Dee's birthday was topped off by a phone call from Tanya herself. Nobody is claiming knowledge of exactly how that phone call got arranged -- but it was most definitely the biggest surprise a TT fan could possibly receive. Rest assured, Tanya does truly appreciate her fans and that would include all of us here at TUTTFS.
What a cool bunch of fans that we have gathered together on this website to promote and celebrate a very deserving legend. Ya'll are truly special. Thank YOU to Tanya and to TUTTFS from Florida Dee
TUTTFS at CMA Music Fest - June 2007
Photos may not be used or copied without permission of the photographers: Casey and Dee (FL) and Dee (AL)
One of the first problems to be taken care of: Casey helps Alabama Dee program her phone ... Delta Dawn is the ring tone of course. If you need help with your cell phone, always ask a 12 yr old!
Tuesday night was Chely Wright's Reading, Writing and Rhythm benefit concert at the Wild Horse Saloon. L to R Natalie, Alabama Dee and Casey (the grumpy 12 yr old). Check out Natalies' Manuel attire! In the photos below, the gang ran into Marcia R. (background vocalist for Tanya) after the concert. Marcia graciously took a few minutes to talk and take photos.
Next day, The Double Dee's ran into Double Trouble after the CMA Kickoff Parade - L to R Genaro, Wayne and Alabama Dee.
Wednesday night, we (Alabama Dee, Natalie and FL Dee) begin the hike over the pedestrian bridge to the Hard Rock Cafe for the Country Weekly Fashion Show.... I kind of recall a 12 yr old razzing us the whole way.
Thursday night, we hung out at the Commodore Lounge with friends and caught Marcia Rimerez' performance on Writer's Night.
Natalie did a great job of hauling us around Nashville in her VW bug.... one of the places we hit was the 'Rainforest Cafe' at the Opry Mills Mall. Yeehaaa -- cool place
Friday we hit the Convention Center for photos, freebies, shopping and some autographs. Pictured is Alabama Dee with new artist Timothy Craig. Friday night was Opry night -- It was Alabama Dee's first trip to the Opry, Casey and Fl Dee's second time. Natalie is a native and has been to the Opry many, many times. When in Nashville, the Opry is a must! (Thanks to Natalie for getting us there and back without trauma)
We managed to find R & R time!!! (Casey in the pool). Bottom picture L to R: Natalie, Mark, Alabama Dee.
This is the Saturday "Ride from Hell" to Tuckerville with Alabama Dee at the wheel of the Toyota Box Car. Dang -- Fl. Dee is white as a ghost! That explains the margaritas all the way around on the way back!
Wayne, posing and strutting during the nightly concerts at LP Field:
If CMA Music Fest looks like a lot of fun, well, yeah -- it is! Come join the party in 2008!!!
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