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Steve's Tour Diary

  • New York City

    2007-12-30: When we last met I was sitting in a café in Portland, surrounded by denizens of the Wayback Machine, a cavalcade of beards and endless cups of coffee and the easy, wayward life. And then that was it. Right? Nothing else. Silence. Like the final episode of the Sopranos (the second and -I swear-the lastmore

  • Portland

    2007-12-03: What do you expect to see when you're in Portland? Well, rain would be the first thing that comes to mind. And then maybe you would want to embellish that image with rain falling heavily outside the window of a bohemian coffee establishment where you are tossing back cup after cup of black coffee. And then maybemore

  • New York City

    2007-11-23: I just read an article about the Yardbirds recording "Shapes of Things." Seems they were driving down the road late one night on their way to Chicago for a session at Chess Studios the next day. Bass player Paul Samwell-Smith heard a Dave Brubeck song on the radio and said, "hey that's a cool bass line." Hemore

  • New York City

    2007-11-02: Sitting here with Linda and John Pierce. Chicago John Pierce. You know that song by Jim Croce? "You Don't Mess Around With Jim?" Okay, then you know what I'm talking about. I wish I could paint a picture for all of you but I don't know how to work his digital camera. I canmore

  • New York City

    2007-10-20: Back home after a series of travel misadventures that included two canceled flights, another that was missed due to impossibly tight connections at the impossibly and perversely difficult Charles Du Gaulle airport, a surprise five hour bus ride from Washington DC to New York City's Port Authority, two odd French movies (one translated to "I Hate My Best Friends' Kids"more

  • Ljubljana, Slovenia

    2007-10-12: Bryan Ferry played the first show of his career in Ljubljana last night and I was probably the only one there who had also seen him play in Hollywood in the mid-70s but you can never be sure. After all, one guy I met after the gig had spent a week with Joey Ramone in New York in themore

  • Ljubljana, Slovenia

    2007-10-02: Sometimes you just have to place yourself in a strange setting in order to be able to scramble the senses and turn your ideas and responses inside out. I've done this repeatedly in the last 15 years, making records in Boston, Tucson and Richmond with people I barely knew only to have them become lifetime collaborators, co-conspirators and friends.more

  • New York City

    2007-09-13: When I come off stage after a show I'm usually pretty dazed. Punch-drunk by the sound, wound up with adrenaline, lost in the middle of some guitar solo or even just trying to find my way backstage, I usually can barely remember my name, rank nor serial number. And this is often the time when someone willmore

  • New York City

    2007-08-31: I was hanging out with my buddy Eric "Roscoe" Ambel at his East Village apartment yesterday. We get together every so often and have had pretty good luck when we find the time to collaborate (our co-writes "Nothing But the Shell," "Milky White" and "From a Better Place" have all come out on various records and our collaboration onmore

  • New York City

    2007-06-22: I always used to love when NRBQ would pull out the "Magic Box" at some point during their show. They would have audience members place requests (preferably non-NRBQ songs) into the box and then reach in and choose a few at some point in the show. They were rarely "stumped" and would play at least a verse andmore