Forgive me, for it has been 6 days since my last post
This has been a blur of activity since we saw the Dbacks spank the padres in the 9th.
Coachella: NC played at the 8th (?) Coachella Valley Music Festival last weekend. LA Festival in the desert. Everyone looked clean and cool. In the 100 degree heat. Even Ron Jeremy looked in place there. We played the Outdoor Theatre opposite Perry Ferrell’s new attempt. We had a good set. The event is a bit loose ont he front end but everything worked out. The NC crew has adopted a needed and successful approach to festivals which is to go in realizing that we will most likely be on our own, and the schedule preset is shit. Seems to work for the day. The guys really nailed it though, and the band played well because of it. I saw The Jesus and Mary Chain, who were great, and Stephen Marley was also good during the Sunset.
The real suprise was having Pete Orwin there who was mixing Gillian Welch. He lives in London and rarely is here. Good to see you Pete, you geezer!
The Warfield was the following day. One of the best places to play ever. We had Jerry’s room as our dressing room. Teh band had a good set, but afterwards, my friend Matt Lawsky took me on a tour of the bowels of the warfield which was a real blast. There was an old speakeasy down there… CHEERS! As it was late night, and I was drinking vodka, I forgot the camera… arrgh. Steve and my father were int he house as well.
So, about the Warfield, we have all been there when we were suprised to see the room breathing, or excited to see it… The warfield has a venilation system where in the deeps of the building is this 1000 sq foot room. Enclosed in it is a steel octopus looking mahcine the size of a bus, with arms and tentacles going every which way in and out of the room. Along the ceiling are all these 6″ holes shooting up into the theatre. Turns out that this is a temerature and humidity control system from the 40’s. The octopus is a real venilation system, that pulls air into the large room, the the air goes through the holes. The room is the lung of the warfield, and there are little vents int he floor and the seats. The warfield does in fact breathe, help or no help!
From there, Reno. Lost $100.
We returned to San Francisco for a day off where I spent the day with my folks, had lunch at Yank Sing, and went south to see my grandmother for the afternoon and night. She is 93! it was nice to hang with the fam on tour.
From there Redding. we got shorted on crew. Sucked.
Now I am San Luis Obispo.
Tom Poston, George from Newhart died yesterday.
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