11/16/2007 (Friday)

Deaner's Tour Diary

The past week has been a whirlwind of gigs and travelling. Played a really fun show in Portland, small venue but really intimate and rocking. Had a lot of fun in that town. Drove overnight to Seattle and played a huge sold out show in another stunningly beautiful theater, we've been really fortunate on this tour to have played some gorgeous venues. Same thing the next night in Vancouver, played a huge opera house. I got kinda snakebit in Vancouver by broken strings, I don't know if I've ever broken so many strings on one gig in my life, but the crowd was super enthusiastic and no one seemed to notice but me. Did a beautiful drive thru the Canadian Rockies to get here, in Calgary. The hotel we're staying at is beautiful and I slept for 13 hours last night. There was a fashion show going on last night here in the hotel and the place was just crawling with models and scenesters. When I checked into my room there was a nice little tray of chocolates and someone had drawn "thanks dean" on it in chocolate and it had the name of our albums sorta painted on there too. I guess someone who works here is a Ween fan. Got to watch some hockey last night, and some basketball and lots of coverage on the Barry Bonds indictment. It will be very interesting to see how this all plays out. If they knew an indictment was coming why did they wait until now? I don't really like the guy at all, but the way this whole thing has been handled is a catastrophe. It's gonna be very interesting to see who else's names come up out of all this and how they're gonna deal with that. Bud Selig is an ass, maybe the worst commisioner in all of sports. Just 2 more gigs for us and then we fly home for a way too short break before the east coast tour. Striped bass are now being caught down on LBI and hopefully the weather and the tides will cooperate with me one day next week.