I think maybe my nerves were contagious. None of us sat down after Megaton started playing. It wasn’t as if the second they came off the stage we had to leap out there ourselves. We had plenty of time. There was some stage re-setting to do, and it being the first show with the new […]
Ziggy’s hands were warm and dry, and gentle, as usual, as he applied the eyeliner to me. I looked up at the ceiling and didn’t say anything, and he didn’t say anything either. It felt like it took a long time and yet it was over with too quickly. I felt like I should do […]
When we were finished with our soundcheck, Megaton went back on to do a “last check” and I went to hide in the bus. Kind of lame, I know, but I didn’t want to spend the time leading up to the show being nervous or having a fight with anyone. Then I remembered Ziggy and […]
The arena in Dallas was another hockey/basketball/concert venue, which seemed dull and boring compared to both Red Rocks and Arizona. The bus pulled into the parking lot and into the area fenced off for our vehicles with temporary chain link, the kind with slats through it so you can’t really see, eight or ten feet […]
Dallas was still really far away when I woke up. Marty didn’t nap. Or maybe I slept through that part. I don’t know. It kind of blurs together. We stopped at a rest area at one point, though, and Carynne got on a pay phone to check her beeper messages. When she got back to […]
I don’t know what time it was when I went to sleep. I woke up what felt like hours later, and lay there feeling sort of stiff and uncomfortable, so I got out of my bunk. Everyone else was asleep, or at least in their bunks with their curtains closed. Walking up and down the […]
I stopped worrying about Ziggy before our opening song was over, because my mind went somewhere else. It was often like that, like my offstage brain turned off and my onstage brain took over, and the two of them didn’t really exchange notes before the handoff. Zig was on. His pitch was on. Or maybe […]
So much for peyote not being dangerous. When Paco woke up, it turned out he had sprained/broken his ankle while tripping, which makes for a pun so obvious I’ll just leave it at that. Because of the drugs he either hadn’t felt how bad it was or hadn’t cared, and when he woke up it […]
As it turns out, I wasn’t the only one contemplating a trip to another planet that night. Chris and Paco had picked up some peyote from someone they’d met in the park and I later found out they were in fact “tripping their brains out.” I also found out that the someone might have been […]
Okay, so, you know how I thought rock formations were really neat in New Mexico? Now imagine a stage nestled between them. That’s Red Rocks. You’ve probably seen the U2 concert video from there so I probably can shut up about it now. I’ll just add it’s even better in real life.