hotel borges – my room is so small! jeez. i can’t even sit on the toilet. no room for my legs!!! haha…
we traveled all day…listening to ‘house of the holy’- bonham is amazing-great album-(i recently played this record for dominick of stereolab and he had never ever heard it!!!! loved it of course)…it just keeps getting better…i don’t know why….
3-4 hours in the van – arrive for soundcheck time at this beautiful opera theatre-opulent-alex and crew are all here ready. i set up and restring my guitars for tonites show…i find out tonites show will be recorded and filmed for a possible dvd later…6 cameras…take it all in….show’s superb- our best yet!!!! only a couple of minor mistakes/accidents::::: highlights: adventures, loveless, innocense lost – the end loop was gorgeous and sad and our soundman let it run as music to walkout to….it was actually really nice to hear it as a long piece – hoping for good results on the recording/filming. very happy tonite. buzzing! signed cds and then hooked up with johnny and kalaf who joined us for dinner – then off to lisbon nitelife, some bars for mojitos to wind down…then to a nasty drum n bass club (loud as shit!) a long walk around – ate soup and bread mmmmmm….6am it is.
good nite.
morning: hungout at area cafe waiting for derek to arrive back from his mountain biking adventure…leave late to figuerra da foz…LLLLOONNNGGG drive…i sleep in backseat to ipod soundtrak…tired today (whad ya expect) and lack of food- arrive at auditorium – nice place (charlie haden and pat metheny played here last year)….acoustics are really bad though….horrible!!!major slap echo off back wall that really plagues are set- good show- my equilibrium is off tonite…brown boy is fast!! song 4 billy is nice….afterwards sign cd’s…all three portugal shows are incredibly. the people here are so warm and friendly…just a blessing….
afterwards we go for food….place is aaahhh ok.
everyones food is kinda bad…hotel IBIS tonite.
whatever. shower breakfast and leave for drive along the countryside coimbra – stop for lunch amazing!!! chicken potatoes fish cakes flan….the food here is so good…damn! a walk around this tiny village – loud motorbikes, lemontrees, tiled roofs,straydogs, a studio (where they were recording fadu music). i must acquire a fadu guitar someday – what a sound! in a different tuning agdadc 12 strings
bakery – drive more-countryside, castles, farmland,forests with tall giant straight trees-3-4 hour drive back to lisboa…ready to get out of the van but listening to incredible ipod mix – back to our ‘favorite’ hotel borges haha….this time a bigger room and a GIANT bathroom- but this place makes you itch. cant wait to leave. crash to tinderstix.
airport: over wgt baggage again!!! 360 euros…ouch.
flightsconnects in copenhagen then on to stockholm
6 hours…arrive at 4:30 pm – my red case containing
my pedal board is lost as is jeremys clothes…fucking stressed as they don’t have my bag in the computer system….catarina (promoter) wants a list of my missing gear so i supply her so they can try to find some of it….. they find line 6 dl4, eb vol, ebs octabass, a/b switcher, boss tuner…cables…yes…there will be a show!!!