September 3rd, 2004.

Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark.

First show ever built on that turf.

No prefab. No shortcuts. Built with labor. Hands-on. Long days rolling into longer nights. That was the kickoff for the ballpark era.

Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson touring baseball stadiums across the country. Jam Productions behind it. Promoters getting commemorative bats and gloves like it was Little League for rock and roll. David still has his.

For Max, this one hit different. Huge Dylan fan. Named his kid after him. Hero status. So he’s out there doing labor on a show that means something personal, trying not to geek out while working.

And then there was the groundskeeper.

First show on fresh turf. You’d think we were driving tanks across the infield. Groundskeepers guard grass like it’s gold. That’s their field. Their reputation. Their livelihood.

High stakes. Heavy equipment. Legendary artists.

That’s how the Ballpark run started.

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Nobody thinks about what happens after the party.
They remember the music. The crowd. The chaos. But when the parking lot cleared out and
the tailgates shut down, somebody still had to deal with the aftermath.
That’s where the Boy Scouts of America came in.
They’d roll up in this little cage truck like a pit crew. Bottles, cans, trash everywhere. They
were Johnny-on-the-spot, tossing everything into that truck and hauling it straight to
recycling. That was their payday.
And that park? That’s where the real tailgates lived. Grateful Dead type crowds. Dyer Street
energy. You could walk through and find whatever kind of scene you were looking for back
then. Pre-tailgate culture before it had a name.
Concert days used to be different. People showed up prepared. You’d walk up on a guy with
a tackle box full of who-knows-what, acting like it was totally normal. That was the vibe.
Wild times.
But when the lights went down and everyone rolled out, the Scouts were there cleaning it
all up like clockwork.
Rock and roll has layers.

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Taking Zakk Wylde to a Drive-In Movie Theater

After an acoustic show the night before and then Black Label Society at Cain's Ballroom, Max was running for the band. Fifteen-passenger van. Long nights. Zero sleep. That’s all he’ll admit to.

At some point, he takes Zakk Wylde to see something most rock stars hadn’t seen in years.

The Admiral Twin Drive-In.

Back in 2005, drive-ins were almost extinct. Two screens back-to-back. Old-school Americana. The kind of place you don’t expect a global metal icon to be standing in front of on a random Saturday night.

They didn’t even go in. Just pulled up so Zakk could see it. “I just wanna look at it.”

That’s the part people don’t see. Being a runner isn’t just airport pickups and backstage passes. It’s late-night detours. Random landmarks. Stories that start in Tulsa and somehow turn into a drive-in movie memory with one of the biggest guitar players in the world.

Rock and roll doesn’t always happen on stage.

Sometimes it’s in a parking lot.

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