Some good pool player stories, that kept me up last night.....
Since I was from the Colorado Springs area since 71, players and player room owners came and set up stakes, with Grady Matthews being the first. Then Scott Smith showed up, then Bill & Barb Stroud.
Scotts first place was the ''Bank Shot'' a very small/successful business, this was in his early years before he married Laura Benarauskis (spelling?) we called her Beanie for short.
Scott was smart, and very successful as a businessman, he then Opened his second place, a real full size pool room called....The Rack and Roll, where he also held music venues.
In his beginning days of this room, in the early 80's, I don't know how he did it, but he got this young woman, about 5'4'' in height to play her music, $7 a head at the door, that wa$ allot of money to pay to see a band in a bar/pool room.
She had just left the music tour as a backup singer with Michael Jackson..... it was Cheryl Crow with her tour bus (like a Greyhound) parked in the back, and WOW did she have the pipes, this girl could REALLY sing, no one this good had EVER been in this small Ft. Carson/USAFA town before.
I was totally amazed.
Then Smitty during his early opening of this room had Efren/Bustamante & Luat come thru.
I played Efren in his pool room Opening exhibition and afterwards hooked up on the 9' with Busty and Luat.... Luat could really play, better than Busty then and Efren didn't have to like it at all in match play.
Scott just had soooooo many talents and it showed is sooooooooo many ways.
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