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Bill Graham knew what he was doing when he built the Shoreline Amphitheatre…woke up this morning to find a complete show…at one of Bill Grahams events in ‘79, and thinking how could we have been filmed so good at such an early stage of our careers, and by whom. I admit I had some thoughts about way back when and who may have filmed us… without our permission… but after tonight’s show the whole Bill Graham thing kicked into gear for me again. How his vision at an early age was to help get music to the masses and after playing shoreline tonight, once again, the masses were there. As I ran up the ramps of each side of the stage I got pummeled, licked, grabbed, a veritable San Francisco sexual experience. Just short of stopping off at the o’farrel theater… it was a good mixture again of 10 year olds, 20 year olds, 30 year olds, and 40 year olds, and the smoke coming from the lawn people threw me right back to Woodstock. The energy the band has, after taking a week off…can be summed up as Casey said…“we’ll what do you do when you haven’t seen your girlfriend in a week…just kiss her hello? I think not.” It was full tilt pandemonium with a little “lick me” for dessert. The snow fell just right during seasons and the ruby 7 lights that our lighting director, Michael keeling, put under the grid at the front of the stage fried me good. If a girl sat on top of it naked, light would shoot out of her nose and ears. And the audience was on fire as well.
From the shores of Mexico, to the Shoreline Amphitheatre of the bay area and then a runner after the show and off to Vegas… where I sit as we speak, waterlogged…from the hottest bubble bath Erin could muster…ahhhh what a lucky man I am. This is the 1st of shows for the 2nd leg, which takes us from Vegas, to the Hollywood Bowl, to Florida to Vancouver… oh, and a puddle skip to Puerto Rico and quick jaunt to Mohegan Sun. We talked about the Refugee All Stars in Nashville but did I say that we were playing with them at Mohegan Sun???? We are. Rolling Stone did a apiece in Random Notes about them… not sure if its out yet, but im sure its coming soon. Back to Vegas...we’re doing a video of “Back in the Saddle” for NASCAR, they’re gonna run it for 40 on weeks on ESPN. The theme being, NASCAR is actually back on ESPN after a while on other networks. Hence… they’re back. Looking forward to a day off tomorrow - it’s the lull before the storm. Gonna rent some Harleys and head for the Hills.
That’s it for now.
With love.
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