When he swiveled toward the TV during a Bird-led fast break and turned back, she was gone. To his surprise, she started talking to him, so Barrett stammered to try to explain the allure of basketball and, on some deeper level, the captivating nature of watching elite athletes perform elite skills. 'She was so gorgeous, unless you were Robert Redford, you wouldn't even bother talking to her.' 'She could've been a Victoria's Secret model,' he says. What had taken his attention away from Larry Bird and the Celtics was, as he remembers her, the most beautiful waitress he'd ever seen.
None of these career paths had held much traction, but after playing a gig at the Varsity Inn, Barrett pulled up a stool, ordered a beer, and turned his head.
David Barrett claims to have a fuzzy memory, but the night 27 years ago that a stunning waitress sat next to him in an East Lansing, Michigan, bar and forever changed his life? That he remembers quite well.īarrett was just 31 and could have been most generously described as a sometimes-guitar player, sometimes-composer, and sometimes-songwriter.
