A Legendary Night – A Long Week

I am listening to Strawberry Wine
from the album “29″ by Ryan Adams
on my iTunes right now!

Last week, you may remember, I set out to have a week without hamburgers. I accomplished that feat! That might not seem like a lot to some of you, but trust me… For this fat boy it is. It was nice and I am happy.

Since starting Rocky Horror I have lost 10 pounds. This really showed last night when I left the show and headed over to the Continental Club to see my buddy Ian McLagan tear up the joint with a thrilling after show set with his amazing Bump Band. He had already played one bad ass set earlier in the day with this little band you may have heard of… The Rolling Stones?? Well, unless you’re not much in Rock ‘n’ Roll royalty and pop culture stuff, you know that Ian is a founding member of a band that Ron Wood of the Stones also played in called Small Faces and that he also played with the Stones for a while and recorded with them. So it only made sense that when they made their first ever trip to Austin that he should open the show. I was unfortunate to miss both his and the Stones’ set as I had not one, but two Rocky shows yesterday, but trust me… We could hear the show! That sound system was L O U D!

Ian and I share a good friend as our booking agent, Roggie Baer, and she put together the night’s after show party at the Continental and it was a blast! Tons of friends showed up to support Mac, including Mark Hallman (who will be mixing my upcoming record) and many more and I got to stand right behind him and watch him do his “handy” work on that B3. Seriously – If you hear someone playing that instrument, I bet you that they love them some Ian McLagan!

I stuck around until they shut it down, said my goodbyes and came home.

Everything else last week went really well. We had some great shows at Zach and I got a lot done here at home. I started getting ready for my Airport show tomorrow afternoon and finished importing all of my CDs into iTunes. Now I just need to get a good backup system in place and then it’s off to Cheapo Discs!

As I type this, late into the morning, I realize how I dread going back and tagging it and adding html links. LOL! Perhaps I will finish that part of it later!

Tonight, I saw Scott Schroeder’s production of Floyd Collins and I must say that I wasn’t sure what to think going in. To hear him describe it, I felt for sure that I wasn’t going to like it, and then I was magically whisked away to this cave almost immediately when it started and found myself not only liking the musical a lot, but crying a couple of tears and even getting very tense and trying not to bite my nails. It’s an emotional roller coster with great themes of hope and trust throughout the show and although the show is based on something that happened decades ago – It’s VERY relevant today. Tomorrow night is the real show – Tonight was a dress rehearsal. Then, Scott will spend a year in fundraising in hopes of making it a full production next fall.

Afterward, Chappy and I went to the new Hyde Park Bar & Grill in South Austin and had some of their famous fries and a very gooey chocolate brownie (well, I did – Chappy would have just thrown up the brownie if I let him eat any of it) with – I am VERY sad to say – NO ice cream or whipped cream.

So, I shall leave you with that for now and I will return to tag and link later today when the sun shines and the birds sing.

Until then…