Home from the road....4/25/2006

It's tuesday night and I am settling back into my life in Los Angeles. No more days of sleeping in, going to the gym and then playing and writing with the band all day before a show at night. Nope, now it's 5am gym, shower, off to the day job and back home again where I try to muster up enough energy to pay my bills, do my laundry, and maybe play a few tunes. Oh gawd, i sound boring and predictable. And, did I really just say the word, "muster"?

So - the rest of the tour. Saturday night was the Southgate House - it was probably the strongest performance we have ever had as a band. After playing the same set for 3 nights in a row we were so comfortable with our parts and ourselves and each other. The songs were really tight and the crowd was really good. There was a mutually contagious energy flowing all night. There we are to your left, I think it was taken during "Lady". I think people are digging the song! I handed out a couple hundred of the free singles on tour and I seem to be getting some great feedback. I can't wait to do the whole album.

Ann Driscoll - like I said, she joined us again on Saturday. I can't say enough about this kid. She's driven, talented, incredibly gracious and an absolute joy to share the stage with! In addition to doing her own set during the evening, she joined us to sing back up on a couple of my tunes ("Uncharted Water" and "Fairytale")I formally asked her to join us on stage again when we return with the full band in August. Here we are to your right during "Fairytale": Luis Oliart, Ann Driscoll, ME, and Alan Malunao Jr.

After the show, my mom took me and the guys out to Skyline (Cincinnati's world famous chili) - the perfect end to a perfect night. We rolled into casa Neumark around 3:30 am and unfortunately, yours truly was driving Alan to the airport at 5. "I'll just take a little nap...." 2 1/2 hours later (I swear my alarm didn't go off) I wake up an hour before Alan's flight. Alan (whose alarm also "mysteriously" didn't go off) and I jumped in the car and raced off to the Dayton airport at 6am (it's an hour away) to catch Alan's 7am flight. Well, you do the math....it didn't happen. Poor Alan spent the next 24 hours tying to get on a new flight. Check his blog for that....

so many stories and good times from this trip. I was saying to my manager, "I want to do this all the time!!! Make that happen!!!" I do believe it will. Things are definitely moving in the right direction. Stay tuned....

Up next: FULLERTON SHOW at THE TROPICS with my friends, MAMA HAGGLIN - Saturday, April 29th!!!!