Friends. It is the end of the road for me, publicly speaking. We pulled off the FIRST and LAST "THE DAMN LOW" show here in bklyn w ...Trail of dead and it was a smashing success. Ive got my fill. Special thanks to my drummer and new found bro Steve Hash for all the times we had building up to this point, although sometimes blue, it was all TOTALLY worth it for me. I could tell by the end of the night of THE DAMN LOW show it was for you too. Cheers brother.
April and I have recently purchased a nice acreage in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the country. It felt good the day when the realtor called and confirmed this. All grown up.?! (look at my bank account sometime)
I think fondly to the future of weekend adventures (i was and am getting back into being an AVID outdoorsman), 4th of july cook outs, and playing all of my guitars and amps at the same time in the loft of our barn at full volume just to fucking do it.
Even as I announce all of this, folk have come up to me and told me i will never last or i will soon get back into "the game". Maybe so. Right now it feels so right to go away into the wilderness (literally) and explore new/old passions. That kind of feeling is what led me to playing all of those tours, in all those bands, in all those studios for all those years. It has been so much fucking fun, but the thought of going to ANY band practice tonight, or signing into a myspace page makes my neck hurt.
Maybe, and BIG maybe ill start a new blog about my new adventures moving to the country, buying and training a german short haired pointer, re-loading my own ammo, and making sausage. Thats if we can figure out how to install some sort of satellite-internet set up for the new house. TOTALLY NOT JOKING..its that remote.
ill leave you, fair reader/listener with a MOUNTAIN of unsold BLX cds, a few TBP cds, a few BLX LP`s ( i always knew you all were cool enough to buy the vinyl..even back when cds were king), and a quote from Mr. Bob Hughes, criminal, drug addict, and noted author. ... " Hey, I only know how to recognize the signs, and how to follow them to where Im supposed to be from one moment to the next". Hell yeah brother.
****i encourage you to go back and take a look at some of the older posts I have put up about all of this touring band moving to NYC stuff. It seemed to get more personal and less tactical as the posts matured. My favorite is the last one. AP
