park inn 512
4 hours of sleep. yea! drive 2 hours to zurich airport – sleep and doze- nice. a very helpful air berlin checkin attendant helps us with excess baggage fees- we fly to dortmund. we are still pretty tired especially gintas who ‘stayed up all night’. arrive in dortmund germany and can’t find the driver. wait for a while, make calls..then finally do, bust our gear and luggage up to parking garage and find his car is too small! ridiculous. can’t fit our gear or us in this tiny hatchback…ahhh…then, gintas realizes he doesnt have his computer bag and runs from parking lot garage to baggage claim (12minutes away). we’re all worried and beat down at this point. after 40 minutes he finds his bag at airport security…thankfully! urse and gintas end up taking a train into town. i drive in car with gear and luggage. hotel is 5 star…pavaratti and stockhausen have stayed here. rooms are incredibly nice, but unfortunately no time to enjoy them. off to sound check. we are exhausted, wrecked test patterns. our travel day was 8am to 5pm (2 hour drive to zurich and flight to dortmund) issues, then a 90 minute drive to dortmund. upon arrival to domicil club, we munch on sandwiches, chocolate, fanta, coffee and setup.
sound is incredible…great room…rush back to hotel (shower, change, shave) then to venue…Packed! people are ready to rock! i have electronic issues during show. i think voltage wasn’t quite right, and made popping noises intermittently…i was never sure if my sound was gonna go out…crazy, BUT
it was nevertheless, an incredible show…we rocked literally so hard…audience loved it…2 or 3 encores…really had a nice time tonight…spoke to so many guitarists and people after who said how much they enjoyed the performance…
to bed at 2:30 up at 7am. breakfast, then an hour drive to zurich airport (urse is a frantic…thinks she has lost a pile of money, but later finds it…the road) driven by fritz. airport is crazy. air berlin (excess baggage charges). a security line that takes forever (with 2 guitars on my back)…finally to plane…last to board…crew is helpful…sleep for a little while.