Met Ksenia first time I ever met the band.
It must have been the next morning after I met the drummer Igor and guitarist Konstantin. Leonids’s son Roman was having to translate my words for Igor who could barely speak English at the time.
This had to be 2021 or 2022. Those pictures are stuck on a phone that won’t boot - Android. The boot sector is corrupted. If I do a factory reset I’ll lose everything.
Which is bad - I had a nice photo of me with several in the band including Ksenia.
Ksenia was as nice as could be - she was embarrassed because she had just run down and bought a strawberry shake and was afraid her hand was all sticky from the cup - this was as she reached to shake my hand. She was wearing glasses which I didn’t expect.
A year later I passed Roman on my way to the hotel room and was hollering back at him to do “One Fine Morning” by Lighthouse. Which they did do. Told him they were perfectly set up for it.
After I turned away here came Ksenia and she almost ran me over with her cart of luggage. She was in a hurry to get to the van for the trip to their next gig. She was wearing the light green dress she was wearing at the previous night’s performance.
As she’s zooming by I asked her if in fact that was Chaka Khan’s “Ain’t Nobody” the night before - she confirmed that it was. Best version I’ve ever heard.
On the stage she said, I have a little surprise for you - I had no idea what was coming. Then she launched into “Ain’t Nobody” - wow
Last year Konstantin was walking by after a show and came over and asked if I went. I said unfortunately no, bro, I didn’t have tickets. First time I’ve missed them since they started coming. Konstantin said you should have found me I would have given you tickets. Dang.
They’re coming this year. Lord willing I’ll get to go. If I can find Konstantin, he’ll take care of me.
Wish I could revive that phone. Nothing was backed up to Google so......I don’t know if I’ll have any luck if I pull the SIM card and try to put it in another phone.
It was my main phone and it’s been down for 3 years now. Dang it.
Lotta great pictures on that phone.
Oh yeah, Ksenia is a princess. (grin)
That is cool. Thanks