April 2009
35 posts
Next Stop... Philly
I spent some time on the streets of Philly as a kid. My mother’s side of the family hailed from the east coast, and her sisters remained and raised families after she had married my dad and moved to Minnesota to raise her own burgeoning brood of four. As we drove into the hood to WRTI radio today, where we enjoyed a live, in-studio interview with the affable J. Michael Harrington, I was...
Well...moving right along to DC
Next stop was Washington, DC. The 9:30 Club was really great. Great staff, great vegan food on the bar when we arrived to load in, awesome green room, ample stage and excellent gear. It sort of felt like a mini-First Avenue mainroom to me. They have a lot of great music coming through this club, so check it out if you are ever in the DC area.
East Coast Tour Commences
I flew into JFK on March 24 and spent the night with my daughter in Brooklyn before leaving for Montclair, NJ and the Wellmont Theatre the following day. Montclair is a sweet, old skool eastern town with a cozy, quaint downtown area. We had good food at a local Cuban restaurant. All the people at the theater were top-notch pros, very helpful and friendly. (I loved the 1970’s green room...
St. Patrick's Day on a Southbound Train to...
Notes from my book:
Too many car dealerships, office parks, new malls, trucking yards with pitted gravel lots where putrid water pools. Running along a freeway, then a frontage road, now scrub pines struggling to hold their ground between track and town. The car rocks gently and the rails whine. A couple shopping carts, one red and one blue, abandoned under a highway bridge; the latter tipped...
