Sometimes I really love new york. So I walk out my door and blocks away, wedged in between a great new falafel joint and a new sandwich shop which seems to specialize in pork sandwiches is an alamo rental car location. I usually get a compact car but I figure that since I'm insane enough to drive 18 hundred miles to a gig I might as well spring for a full size. I've got a few simple requirements for a car. I hope all my equipment can fit in the trunk so I don't have to worry about unloading the car every night and I hope that there's a direct line for the ipod because though I have one of those adaptors which allows you to listen to it on the radio they kind of suck. That's really it. I might have to add satellite radio to that list because this car came with it and I'm really digging it.
So I'm booking across the country and I pass Chicago and I figure wow. This has been easy. I'm practically in Colorado already. And then the realization dawns on me that this is a really big country. Chicago isn't even half way to Denver from New York. What the hell was I thinking? My conclusion is that the first thousand miles is no problem at all for me. It's the second thousand that's sort of a pain. Not to mention I gotta do it all again on the way back. Driving gives you flexibility though. I could still continue on to burning man, or I can change my route home and visit friends, or I can just book back.
I'll be in Denver by tonight. Can't wait to play tomorrow. Got some tough decisions deciding what songs to play. There's only so much you can cover in a forty minute set. I'm mulling over whether to do set lists or not. I prefer to just feel it out but I'm not sure I'm comfortable enough yet with the solo stuff to not plan things. I just found out that some of the shows I'm doing on september leg of shows opening for Buckethead will be twenty minute sets. Seems pretty weird to drive somewhere and set up and only play 3 or 4 songs. That's gonna be tough. That's barely enough time to get my rocks off. Same pay though so I can't complain.
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