dom carlos room 505
nice hotel. very comfortable.
terrible day–starting out with our highest excess baggage fees at rome airport–and it takes forever to sort it all out. once thru to security, they would not let me through with my 2 guitars. so i had to walk all the way back to ticketing counter for a special boarding ticket…which they didn’t have. ahhh! run back to security, they let me in this time…all this for nothing. jumping thru hoops. finally on flight–stressful. flight is good to lisbon thankfully.
our promoter here, jorge, picks us up at airport–tensions arise concerning an extra gig, lots of mis-communications between label, promoter, agents, artists, band…which creates friction in our small travelling party…hope this all will disappate. off to soundcheck immediately…we run out of gas in the promoters car 3/4 of the way up a steep hill. he has no choice but to put it in park, and run around the corner to get gas, much to the dismay of 10 cars behind us. this takes 45 minutes…hilarious day…finally at LUX…such a great venue and crew here…one of my fav spots anywhere…sound is great and big…check is good…the show tonight is soldout…500 people…one of our best shows of the tour…just incredible…people here are so enthusiastic for what we are doing…4 encores…they wouldn’t let us leave…after show we stay at bar upstairs until 6am, i believe. we are driven back to our hotel by a friend, but she is stopped by the police for a sobriety check. haha. just our luck on this crazy day. she doesn’t have a licence with her. it seems like we are in a bad situation, but they let her go. we drive in the pouring rain through lisbon and try to find our hotel. we finally do. exhausted.