TEMPLE WITH STRINGS
People,
Coming to you live from a secret location in Burbank. Took the 101 down here. Couldn’t handle one more trip down interstate 5. I know I’m not alone. Says here that Interstate 5 has been awarded one star on Yelp. That’s about right. Hung with The Palace Steps and James DePrato where we cut some tracks with Peter Mulvey for a new Peter record that turned out pretty cool. Did some hanging with family in lower California and caught some waves with my nephew. Guess I’m officially the weird uncle now. “Hey kid, let’s go surfing. I want to be in your life.” He was like, “Dude, I don’t even know you”. The kid humored me and we ended up paddling out at his secret spot.
We’re looking forward to our annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass after show party at the Make Out Room in San Francisco. We’ll be there for two nights along with some special friends Oct 4th and 5th. Shows at SEVEN PM SHARP. I trust you can google the address because you’re reading this. I know you’re smart, we’re on each other’s radar, aren’t we?
Got some solo shows coming up too. Including one at the Palms in Winters, CA with James McMurtry. We’ve also got a sit down show (with strings) coming up at The Great American Music Hall Nov. 24th that we’re starting to get our head around.
Like I say. Playing is still fun. You get to stop worrying about everything for a while. We’re rested up after our last tour which ended with four gigs in Montana. [four gigs in Montana? I didn’t know you could do that]. We couldn’t help but appreciate this Jason Cohen piece in the Missoula Independent. He gets it all in there.
Read here: http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/real-animal/Content?oid=1890207
I know I was going on about my own cooking show in the last newsletter. And if I don’t get a serious offer soon, I’m just gonna let it go. Your loss! Hear me out. How about a episode with cagey veteran tips for life on the road like for example: If you do have to eat before a gig and don’t want to risk going into a food coma by the third song in the set, just eat some protein before you go on. Like steak (or prosciutto even). But dig this: you have to do it standing up. Peter Buck taught me that. And for some real art, we’d throw out any script or outline or whatever. We’d just let the cameras roll. I imagine an Andy Warhol-like black and white episode consisting entirely of long closeups of the each band member’s sulking face after Stephie insists we drive three hours out of our way for a Whole Foods. Three hours of just that. I’d watch it. Epic! We could have guests too. Maybe David Hidalgo of Los Lobos. In fact, dig this video where he shows how to warm food with a tissue box and an iron.
