I'm doing great - getting back into the LA world here, after the tour. I got a work out in today. it's very different on the road - it was nice having gyms in the hotels etc and not having to drive to things.
There was talk about it - paul was very cautious at that point. I think that Paul had been through so many things but once things started kicking in there was a complete difference. Driving Rain was him coming out of a cave. He was coming out of a deep grieving process. That's one thing that really impressed me about him - he spoke very candidly after I'd known him for a very little time about things like that. He was very in touch with his human-ness and that was very inspiring.
There was some sort of magic in the way it all happened. I think Paul was on the same wavelength as everyone. I was really happy when I saw the original set list. I suggested It's Getting Better and he thought that was great - and we suggested some other ones but I think those will end up in the next tour. He's got a lot of songs and it's nice to change it up. Things will morph into the next tour but I was very pleased with the set list. I thought it kept on getting better.
Oh, it was fantasitc. It's one of those things I can't compare to anything else I've ever done. It was great. Experiencing all those cultures, the beautiful architecture...
The show outside the Colluseum was by far the most people I've ever played to. We started as the sun was going down and by the time it got dark during 'Let it Be', people had lights and it was like a trail of fireflies, it was really cool. That was really special. Everyone had a bit more energy too - that little tad more urgency. Inside the Colluseum was nice too, it was more of an acoustic show - it was more fish out of watery as everything was running a little late, there were so many details. It wasn't the normal protocol of our show.
I kind of wasn't really ready for it - it was pretty emotional. It didn't really hit me how that was the last show of a year and a half of touring off and on. We are supposed to go out again in the fall of 2004 and do some more touring - but all these things are speculating - but everything's gone to plan in the past year and a half. I think everyone was ready to come home. It's nice to tour - we toured in two or three month chunks - which is better than being on the road for a year and half straight.
Very much, absolutely. A lot less dysfunctional than any family I've ever seen!
yeah - they were for the super fans I think - they're good songs though.
Yes, I made a quick pop-in and checked out the historical aspects.
The Cavern is a kind of duplicate isn't it? It's a kind of carbon copy. It was cool. It's hard to take it all in as I'm still submerged in it all.
Yes, I didn't know him in the Linda days but he seems like he's having fun and is at peace with himself. I know that everyone's got a lot of things in their lives and no-ones completely at peace - or we'd be dead I think.
I had another friend that happened to and it's nice to see things come back together but it takes time - you never know how long though.
Oh fantastic. It was great to hear the news. It made it all make sense. Heather had been a little absent dealing with stuff and didn't want to tell anyone until she thought it was time. The baby is due in November, and we are starting a new record in September.
It's going very well. I've been squeezing it in between things and we're trying to let the last little bits finished up.
I would really like to get it out this summer. I just cut a track with Stuart Copeland too. he's such a great drummer, and we were in a band together a while back. he's a friend and a great drummer. he's a lovely guy, lots of character, lots of warmth. We had a ball doing that.
There are people into acoustic music. That has the least amount of things between the raw emotion and the end result. Electric music is the same way but you are playing with the electrons but you are still dealing with pure emotions. I find that in small doses electonic music is inspiring, it is interesting, but I get insulted listening to machines, I like agression, I like dynamics, I like soft, I like hard.
I'm trying to fix up my house a bit, finish the record, do a session here and there. If I have a problem it's that I'm a scatterbrain. I'm not a good editor, I'm much better at doing bits and pieces here and there.
Hopefully, yes, I'm just got a new manager and dealing with him, but that's something I'd like to do.
That's great to hear and that's fantastic. I saw a bit of the last band, I really wish I'd seen more. All I know is that I feel really fortunate to be a part of it, it was a lot of fun.
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