01994-05-16 | Uncategorized
Caravan of Dreams in Ft.Worth yesterday + Tuesday.
Well, I was in a funk yesterday. In 2 ways! I hadn’t taken a shower since Wednesday + I was feeling lousy.
2nd show was interesting. Lampi told us story between shows about tripping 4 2 weeks in ABQ. Lotsa hallus. Made me trip during show somehow. Was feeling very fluid, languid + in a cloud. Was kinda cool. Made some trippey music in the 2nd show.
Funny review of the 1st show in the Ft.Worth Telegram. Called me the Fabio of New Age. ‘Liebert’s tangled music flows in the same acoustic/New Agey vein as Acoustic Alchemy, but he has something those guys don’t: sex appeal. He’s beefy like the guys in Nordic Track infomercials yet agile enough 2 pass 4 a stuffed Koala. The 1st of his 2 shows last night revealed that now that his hair is gone, so is some of his appeal. The women didn’t scream. The men didn’t say, ‘Aw, that ain’t nothin’. I can do that’ and no one was making jokes about how he is really Michael Bolton’s evil twin from Vermont………’ Pretty funny huh?
01994-05-15 | Uncategorized
Bus is stopped @ Loves, 1 hour away from Ft. Worth.
The rains did come again yesterday in Austin. Right after Bill said “5 min. to show” it started 2 rain real hard. Lightning was iluminating the venue. The thunder was dangerously close. We held the show 4 an hour until 9pm. After the weather service told us the lightning had left the area we began. I played my solo + lights came on mysteriously + went off again.
@ 1 point the stage was pitchblack after stagehands, trying 2 disconnect a colourchanger that was going crazy, had pulled a masterswitch. Mark’s drums were very, very faint in the monitor + I could hear Jon only through the mains. Calvin came on 4 the 3rd piece+ we found that his guitar was not in the monitors. We futzed around a short while + then played on w/o his sound.
After another 3 songs I called an impromptu intermission + we tried 2 fix the monitors. Apparently the rain had gotten in2 direct boxes + mike connections + was shorting everything out. We did finish the show in front of an amazing audience that was very positive + cheerful in the rain. Actually the rain kinda stopped while we played + came back hard right after the show when the crew was loading the trailer.
The big Texan promoter hugged me after we came off stage, happy that we had finished the show under adversity. None of us had wanted 2 cancel 2 shows in a row in Austin.
Several thousand $ of equipment demage in lights + mikes, esp. the intelli-lights, computer driven moving lights. A co-owner of Intelli-lights who had seen the show, gave our LD Chris his phone number + promised his suppport.
The promoter gave us an uncontractual bonus + promised a show in a theater next time. (Stefan said he is a good man, the biggest rarity among promoters.)
Onward we go. The bus is back up 2 speed. We will B in Dallas/Ft.Worth soon, where we will have Monday off. They will B fixin’ equipment then. Everybody came through under pressure. What a gr8 group of people.
01994-05-14 | Uncategorized
Did morning TV in Austin 2day.
1 of the fastest rising stars of 2day will B w us in just a few minutes…
nobody can possibly enjoy that banter…. Well, ticket sales went up after the TV appearance anyway.
Almost didn’t remember the ending of the solo version of Snakecharmer….. Got it 2gether just in time.
They R still cleaning up the Backyard. Yesterday’s rains brought flooding. What a difference from last October! I realized that there was no daylight last year. The storm had darkened the sky so much.
