I had a couple
of full days of teaching at the music school,
so I was pretty tied up. Managed to throw
in some practise hours though, just running
through the tunes makes it feel a bit more
comfortable so I don't have to read all that
stuff when performing live. Tuesday we fed
the inner mind with some art, the body with
some sports and the stomach with some Chinese.
One of the best in Amsterdam is right here
around the corner, were they also serve some
great Cantonese. We did not get much sleep
the past days, there's some heavy machinery
happening around the corner. Guess they are
building some new shopping centre or something.
Lale calculated the hammering happens at an
average rate of 60 beats per minute. We're
thinking of a way to sabotage the stuff so
we can finally sleep in the morning. Would
be cool to hear a big *BANG* at 6.15, turn
around and then just sleep. I treated Lale
to some more typical Dutch culture yesterday
as you can see on the pic below. I think he
enjoyed it.
Jammed some
yesterday evening and we came up with a new
intro for Lined Out. We will try that out
tonight, with a new setlist too. See how that
goes. Lale thinks we don't have much rock
'n' roll stories to tell.. well, I can assure
you, playing in small clubs, dragging your
equipment up two stairs and down again, coming
home sweaty and with back pains with just
30 euros you made is all rock 'n' roll! Maybe
we just have to throw our Bose speakers over
the balcony of my appartment. That's very
rock 'n' roll. Hope Bose doesn't read this..
Atttention:
For the guitarday- the time has changed, we're
on at 16.30 coming saturday in Rotterdam.
Check out a video of a bassolo from last sunday
at Udo's site: http://www.udopannekeet.nl
Rich
Lale
speaks:
Hey
guys & gals! So tonight we are playing
at The Duke, should be cool. We are on at
21:00 so that's a pretty good time to play.
So far I'm really enjoying my stay here in
Amsterdam. Richard is always such a great
host. Yesterday me and Rich went to the Van
Gogh museum and before that we decided to
be healthy and go to the Health club and work
out. My upper body feels a bit sore but it
feels good to have that extra energy, we went
there today also. I have this pain in my left
foot from jumping into a swedish tree a week
ago (yeah, don't ask...I was saving a friend
from being attacked by this nasty creature
OK!!) so I'm taking it easy with my foot now.
Anyway, it was interesting to learn some history
about Van Gogh. His brother financed his art,
I wish i had a rich brother who would finance
my art ;-) but then again good ol' Vincent
became mad in the end and shot himself so
I guess that I'm better off as it is. Had
some nice chinese food yesterday.This time
we are trying to eat properly before gigs.
Also ate some typical Dutch food with a lot
of mayonese, you know, the stuff they talked
about in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. Not much
rock'n'roll stories yet I'm afraid, I do miss
my Laphroaig a little bit though. Had some
cognac the other day, that's the closest to
rockn'roll we get with jazz-rock... anyway
we are pretty excited about playing every
night now for four days. Me and Richard wrote
a new intro to one of the tunes that we'll
try tonight. More updates after the gig. Cheers/
Lale
PS: I suggested to Rich that he would use
this pedal for some of the tunes, but for
some reason he didn't like the idea....
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