can't wait...

Things I look forward to :

• My flight is at 5:50 AM 
• We arrive at 7:30, then load-in
• The temp in Atlanta will be 97
• I will have 16 wireless microphones to deal with : next door to CNN. Interference much ?

and I just realized that the Sox will be playing the Braves - in Boston....

Atlanta bound

We will be in Atlanta tomorrow where the temp will be 97 degrees. Yeehah ! The last time I was in Atlanta for a show, I was in a little cafe and I asked for iced coffee, and they looked at me like I was from Mars. As if they had never heard of such a thing. 

Me: "It's kind of like iced tea - but it's iced coffee !!"  Then, I said, "Could you please, just pour some coffee into a glass of ice? "

Waitress: "But then all the ice is gonna' melt.."
Me : "I'll just have to take that chance.."

Maybe, by now they have discovered Iced Coffee...

I Miss the Cape...

Overheard in New England, whilst wearing long pants :

"Chahlie, it's a hundred fahty-fah degrees out ! - put some shohts on !!"

either it is a huge cat or

it's a small box

while walking around nyc @ Bleeker St. Records

PM5D Scene Management Class

Highlights from NYC

• The bus from La Guardia filled up with smoke, and we were stuck on the side of the road in Queens for about an hour...

• Dinner at The Pearl Oyster Bar was fantastic. Oysters, clams, and halibut...

• Attended the Yamaha Commercial Audio PM5D Scene Management Class

• Had a Great Rueben sandwich at a deli in Times square

• Successfully kept my mouth shut while surrounded by millions of Yankee, Giants, and Mets fans

help

have podium mic... will travel to Manhattan next week, looking for a good seafood restaurant ... any suggestions ???

"In North America, the American lobster did not become a popular food until the mid-19th century, when New Yorkers and Bostonians developed a taste for the species..... Prior to this time, eating lobster was considered a mark of poverty or as a food for indentured servants or lower members of society in Maine, Massachusetts and the Canadian Maritimes. Prior to the American Revolutionary War, dock workers in Boston went on strike, protesting having to eat lobster more than three times a week"

Alabama

It was as I thought ; long days in Birmingham. We brought in Sound, Lights, and Video, and spent aprox. 12 hours rehearsing for 3 a three hour event... One highlight was dinner at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse where I had a great lobster... 

Flight departs at 6:35 AM

have (8) podium mic (s), will travel... to Birmingham, Alabama

more.... Austin, Texas

chance of snow : 0%

From Austin,Texas

Austin, Texas- High Voltage

Naples, Florida

Naples,Florida

have podium mic...will travel to Naples, Florida

have podium mic... will travel to Naples, Florida and I was thinking...

• what do they mean when they say "the worlds most perfectly cut diamond" ? Are there varying degrees of perfection ?

• "oh... C.K. Dexter Haven" - great scene from a great movie... video clip here

• to fix a feline aural hematoma costs 393.00$ - just sayin'

• I like banana bread, but I hate bananas...
• I like apple juice, but I don't eat apples
• I eat ketchup, yet I despise tomatoes....

oh, and that picture on the right is here

back from Las Vegas, off to Chicago...

it felt like a month...

 but it was only a week in Las Vegas...

New Mexico

We were in Santa Ana, New Mexico for five days....Sandia Mountains....Rio Grande...and the 'resort' we stayed at :

coyote in the grass

cottonwood trees by the Rio Grande

Sandia Mountains from the resort

hand out the window - storm over the mountains

More pictures here

Estancia La Jolla

more here

La Jolla

more here

NYC

Charlotte

Here, we brought in PA, monitors, and lights to the Charlotte Bobcats Arena for a three day event. It was about 120 degrees outside, but luckily we were in the arena for 14 hours a day and there was a Dunkin Donuts around the corner....
Tech notes : Monitor System was a Yamaha PM5d with 8 wedge mixes, and 10 mixes going to an Aviom system...

Charlotte, NC