Ron and Brandon’s drum duet yesterday evening at the Marymoor amphitheater in Redmond, near Seattle. The weather was perfect and the audience wonderful. One of our very first gigs was in Seattle in 1990. We played in a restaurant one evening and the next evening we opened for Miles Davis at the Paramount.
We must have driven through some kind of vortex between Bend and Portland, because when I woke up in Portland my automatic mechanical IWC watch had stopped and could not be coaxed into working… Ah, well, like any machine, a watch needs tune-ups.
Jon is creating beautiful ambient tracks on the bus, which prompts the idea to create ListeningLounge-only albums of ambient music (t-one 2005?), possibly combined with slideshow or QT movie visuals you will be able to download. I think in this sense the LL will be quite liberating in that certain ideas or pieces can be released without having to commit to a big production, i.e. designing + manufactoring CDs…. very exciting possibilities.
We had a great time in Portland last night. While the neighborhood around the Aladdin Theater is not as much fun for us as the area near the Crystal Ballroom, I do think the Aladdin sounds better. Our Portland audience once again proved themselves to be one of the best in the country – besides Portland I would have to mention Atlanta in this respect! Just the right amount of attentive, enthusiastic and sophisticated!! By the way, I am very pleased with the great reception the opening piece – Silence – No More Longing – is receiving. The band sounded fantastic last night and the music played itself. An altogether wonderful and lovely experience. My sincere thanks to last night’s audience!
Alan’s P.O.V.
