Played the House of Blues New Orleans last night. I hadn't done it in about six years since my first stint with Ingram. It was the second night of Mardi Gras so the locals hide and the tourists are shithoused by at least 5 p.m. Makes for a fun time around 10 pm when everyone's yakking in the street. And we almost pooled our money to send our monitor guy to Bankok Massage down the street from the club. You can't make this stuff up, it was really called Bangkok Massage.
I hate playing the HOB New Orleans because I'm in a city with amazing food all around, but the HOB food is so good and FREE that I can never manage to pull myself away. I sat up front for the drive out of town and when you see the repaired Superdome versus the pics from Katrina it amazes you to think how powerful that storm must have been. I would have loved to have been able to drive down to 9th Ward and see the carnage being cleaned up but, of course, a show day never permits time for it.
We're doing San Antonio Rodeo tonight. If you haven't done San Antonio, you should see it. They put you on an island stage thats about 22 feet in diameter and it spins. About 4 songs in you're completely dizzy. Oh, and did I mention that the crowd is a good 30 yards from the stage? Our buddies in Randy Rogers band played last night and left us sweet love notes taped to the stage.
After load out we head to Lawton, OK to play Fort Sill for the military and then I get to go home for a week before trekking to Canada (eh!) next week.
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Actually it was the "Bangkok Spa", but I'm sure massage was one of many services they performed behind those dark locked doors.
My mistake, Chris. Thanks for the correction. Next time, buddy.
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