Blaze Tales Kerrville Crapper Incident: Blaze was always irritating to the 'serious' musicians at the Kerrville Folk Festival. After he and Townes emptied the over full crappers there by ramming them with an R.V. that they had commandeered, Blaze was banned forever. Townes wasn't because he was a draw for ticket sales. The next year, Townes smuggled Blaze in-dressed as a woman. There were actually pictures of Blaze posted at the gate with instructions to security to keep Blaze out. Shortly thereafter, there was a confrontation at one of Blaze's gigs in Austin, where Blaze hollered at Rod Kennedy from the stage and spit on him. Rod jumped on stage and pounded Blaze, who did not fight back, but took delight in pointing out to the crowd that the founder of the Kerrville Folk Festival was a hotheadded redneck. (See resulting song by Henry Herndon on the songs page) Hartsfield International: Blaze flew into Atlanta once in the aftermath of a major terrorist incident when security had been tightened up to the max. Everyone working in and around any airport or airline was insanely paranoid. Armed guards were everywhere checking everybody for everything. The extreme level of anxiety didn't go over too well with Blaze. Two friends of Blaze arrived at the airport to pick him up. When Blaze first came within eyesite of his two pals he started waving and yelling - Hi! Jack!; Hi! Jack!; HI JACK! (Neither one of them were named anything like 'Jack'). People who didn't even speak English were taking cover. Later, in another part of the airport, Some lady spotted Blaze with his guitar and shouted " Look everybody, it's Leon Redstone!". Faithful Companion: Blaze had a dog for a pet once. He named it Syndrome. That way whenever it jumped up on anybody, he would yell- "Down, Syndrome!".