"CAN YOU PLEASE TURN IT DOWN A LITTLE?"

OK people, here's a rant. IF YOU HAVE A BLACK TIE EVENT, DON'T BOOK A COUNTRY OR ROCK BAND TO PLAY IT! Please, jus do me that favor. There is no bigger asswhip than people booking a show and having no idea what they're in for. Country bands have amps that go to 11 and drums that make noise when you hit them. I've never understood why so many parties want to pay insane amounts of money for a big name and then don't want them heard. Ponderous.

I'm reminded of a show we did with ML about two years ago in upstate Pennsylvania at an RV resort. We got all set up and during soundcheck the old hag running everything came up to our Front of House engineer and asked him, and I quote "Can you please turn the bass down 6 or 7?" After briefly wondering what 6 or 7 meant, he politely said "yes ma'am" and turned an imaginary knob on the console and asked "is that better?" "That's perfect," she responded. I love my job.

We're currently 94 miles out from Nashville on I-24 rolling back from Miami. Bus internet is a beautiful thing, I don't know how people survived without it for so many years (including me). Lord willing and the creek don't rise (to quote Levon Helm), I'll be home in time for kickoff of the Cowboy game. I really hope Jessica Simpson doesn't show up and cause a game losing fumble like Carrie did last year. I saw Tony Romo about three months after that game last year at the ACM awards. He was at the Sony Party sitting all by himself and, as much as a Cowboy fan as I am, i still hadn't forgiven him for blowing it and couldn't find it in my heart to forgive him and go talk. I'm sure he's crushed that he didn't get to make my acquaintance, but I've since moved past it and wish him the best. Until he loses, that is.

Our driver just opened a window and I realized we're not in Miami anymore, Dorothy. The 80 degrees i felt yesterday has been replaced by the chilly TN winter. Can anyone tell me where it stays 60 degrees year round? I'd like to go there. My fall wardrobe is much cooler than anything else, I need jacket weather to look cool.

I watched "Factory Girl" the other night, a movie about Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol. What an interesting story that was. I've never been a huge fan of Andy Warhol, I can appreciate what he did but didn't really see all the hoopla. When he died his estate was worth 300 million. I might pay $100 bucks for one of his pieces. Different strokes for different folks. It's funny that Edie Sedgwick has been the model for all the "it" girls like Paris, Nicole, etc. They probably have no idea who she was, but the fact they follow the same path is funny to me.

I gotta run, we're about to duck into a Stuckey's and I haven't seen one of those since I was in elementary school. Last of a dying breed, I can't pass it up.