California Son

North Cali shows all week. 4 up/4 down….San Luis Obisbo, Sonora, Davis and Santa Cruz.  Sonora, California is gorgeous. The gold country. The smell of the sawmill. Played one long set at THE LUMBERYARD – fun alt. country band called DRIVING NAILS opened. My delay pedal broke in sound check and we spent our dinner with metal parts all over the table. I think we ate one of the washers with the salad but it went back together and the show came off without a hitch. I want a guitar tech dammit

 

Stayed at the INN OF CALIFORNIA. Yeah one room. Big time rock stars…..someone has to cuddle with someone each night. Everyone has had the same cold for about a month (and now you know why….). I have worn the same clothes for too many days- partially because I didn’t pack enough after moving everything out of my apt in LA into my sisters garage, and also because there is never time to wash and dry clothes before leaving the motels to drive each day. So be it. Billy Driver has lived this way for years and he still wins friends and influences people. Glamorous I know.

 

Off to Davis, CA tonight. Each day quite similar despite most folks assumption that it’s one big party…. Wake in a room with no light and try to find your belongings…clean up…take a trek down to the motel lobby, pound down coffee, steal apples from the tray and slide them into front of backpack, try to hook into the internet and catch up with  booking agent, answer email, search for new place to live in LA, write you kind people, make setlists, make sure the bands plan of attack is tight, learn who the opener is so I don’t disrespect them on stage that night, and occasionally stumble upon a lyrical line or two. Writing on the road is much harder then getting still in one place and calling down your imagination… but the tour rolls on….

 

We just decided to skip the motel in Santa Cruz and drive straight back to Colorado.  20 hours door to door.  Atleast there is free sushi tonight in Davis. 10-4 people.