Time to Hit-BUT WHERE IS THE GEAR AND LUGGAGE?

what a day!

slept heavy for an entire 4 hours.  i was up at 5 am-couldn't
sleep anymore-starting to worry about how i can pull this off.

we spent most of the day working with the musiccaffeen staff to
hit up favors for gear.  this drum dealer hooked up ed with some
gear but charges him about 100 bucks for a coupla drums sticks
and some brushes. ouch.

this guy, heine is sure nice and knows everbody in the country
regarding musical instruments-we make a list and they try to
help.  bamboo sax-there is one in the whole known country and it
is in copenhagen-so no go.

i try to secure a clarinet, buy a toy flute and some wooden
zylophone and that is about it-doable but lacking alot and i am
concerned but goin with the flow.

i have one hour to master a strangers clarinet for a live performance-this
instrument repair guy that looks like danish jesus offers me a
loner b-flat clarinet and if i want a...contra alto bass
clarinet-nuts this thing is like nine feet tall all pipes-i
watch the guy play it and i see the veins in his arms bug out as
he plays-i cant get a note out of this beast-i tell him thanks
but noway bro-just the sissy clarinet.

off to the room to get something together.

we get closer to soundcheck and i start getting really tired and
nauseous-super exhaustion, legs hurt real bad from the
runnning-i crash for about a hour and i cant wake myself up and
fell really  shitty, like i am done for.  marshall even checks
me out-c'mon on jamie you gotta get youself together and wake up
boy.

we do our soundcheck and honestly it was pretty nice-there is
hope.

we go back to the hotel and chill i nap sorta and feel bad again
so

i took my first shower of the trip and felt much better-borrowed
a lick of deoderant and fresh underpants, socks and tshirt from
bobo.

we have many probs still.  because we dont have my multiplug
extension and transformer/power converter bob cant run any
effects petals and no amp he brought and no to marshall's
EVI-another big blow-no EVI no effects-the staff run out to get
us a converter which works for marshall-i am releived but
wondering who (me) is paying for all this and no effects petals
so bob buys a boat load of 9 volt batteries.

we are at the event with our gear and are shown our
dressing/chill room stocked w/ fruit beer and chips water edame
etc.

i walk downstairs and i am greeted buy my orange suitcase and
ed's drums.  i almost hug the stuff.

buy the way-the light angel is back-every time me and ed went to
a terminal for internet connection-the light would go out-i
looked at the cabin light on the overhead of the plane and they
would go off.

light i look at in the airports as we get to them would go off
as i walk under them.  then in frankfurt we are waiting for our
flight to copen hagen and i am taking in how strange this has
been and that this cant be the light angel because it has been
so long and it is just me projecting this whole dumb thing to
get my mind off the troubles we have endured and then i look at
some lights and they don't off-and i am like, yeah, well did you
really think that could happpen, foolish, i look at anoter
light, sorta sad that is isn't real and alittle bummmed then...

the lights go out in the ENTIRE WING, not just the terminal-the
whole wing-they stay off the rest of the stay in frankfurt as
staff work under available light.


we set up all our goodies and rock out to the darkest, funkiest
and prob. smelliest performance-real darkside stuff and still
pretty with tension.  great show with the audience screaming
when hitting there frequency.  lotsa compliments.

only complaint is the punks at the mixing board working the
dvd/films thing that by screening is an opportunity for their own
self-expression manipulating it to awful colors and
processors-the audience didn't know for shit but youngins
always want to "jam" and get their fingers in the
sauce-whatever i learn now that anytime i hand off to anyone
that they play them straight=all is so layed back here so just
harmless-whatever

we did a full fantastic performance and we listened back at the
hotel with marshall and i am really satisfied.

so all is well-eating bad though-all 7 eleven food-yuck and
delicious fresh bread and parma ham on a good note but no real
dining.

many, many thanks to martin and keld for all the hard work running around and helping us through a tough run.

i dig it here.