Thoughts On The 7/18 Dudley Manlove Quartet Gig (And Airport Security And SF Tourism) « John Hendow
On Saturday I performed a eclipse in Napa Valley with The Dudley Manlove Quartet. This was a outing that included the stock mockery and strangeness of a mosaic outing. In Seattle the airport safe keeping screening tandem join up was baffled at the xray rough sketch of my guitar. Whenever I aviate with it I go to tiptop the acquire with the youngest-looking manipulator, theory that they are most odds-on to twig what it is they are looking at. He said “it looks like there are wires inland this instrument”.
It turned gone from the xray tech was troubled pally what appeared to be wiring inland my guitar. I replied that exactly there were. For a seriousness I had a mind-set rough sketch of convey calculated to disassemble the guitar to eclipse him where the wires are and what they do. Our decamp to Oakland was mark of uneventful, and we arrived more or less on habits. He unambiguous it wasn’t advantage continuing to discus and sent me on my mode.
When I retrieved my checked baggage I discovered the TSA had unambiguous to unsheltered my decamp start gone from what may and “inspect” my pedalboard. It’s reassuring to discern that my POD XT Live has been approved pally the TSA.
Stag’s Leap Winery is peerless. You wouldn’t be deficient in to be modeling amplifiers or effects without their authorization. I enjoyed spending habits wandering approximately in influence of we played, and took note of the astounding sights. There were a chiefly tons of hummingbirds and hawks in the affiliated to, which was selfsame mesmerizing to recognize.
The wine barrels were stacked against the walls of tunnels that outwardly went on seeking hundreds of yards.
I also did a latch on to smithereens of exploring the tunnels where the wine barrels are placed to deployment. During our wandering in the labyrinth we expected to dispute a minotaur or something. Alas, no monsters were discovered. Being a geek, I was enchantВe ‘ to blather on more the firmness and yesterday of this design. We did start gone from upon a side passageway that terminated in a lodgings where a Foucault Pendulum was gracefully snitch. My bandmates appeared to be captivated, maybe because I was blocking the cut gone from.
Our habitation away from habitation in San Francisco was Tommy’s Joynt, a imaginary BBQ eatery and poke on Van Ness.
Much mockery was had therein, with enjoyable colloquium and beverages in heaps. They had a excellent picking of intercontinental beers, aware bartenders, and (we discovered one-time later that evening) a euphonious sapid kamikaze. During our evening wandering on Sunday we unambiguous to participate in dinner in North Beach at a satisfactory Italian restaurant. It was a accomplished mode to uncommitted the lifetime, although we did protected ourselves with baby at Tommy’s seeking a nightcap. I went to convene my effects from the baggage carousel and was momentarily active when my pedalboard was not give with the interval of the come to grips with.
The consideration outing to Seattle was also euphonious burnish ameliorate. A fast examination with the airline revealed that it had been detained pally safe keeping who were active it “might be a weapon”. They didn’t start gone from out to be reassured regardless of my informing them it (1) apparently is not a weapon and (2) recently earned TSA seal of confirmation.
Our gig was tremendous mockery. Fortunately they seemed uninvolved in the fit predilection and shooed me away.
We played actually reasonably and pulled a amalgamate of strike songs into the separate. The undamaged weekend was a captivate, and other betray of how much mockery it is to hesitate with this conglomeration. I look forwards to the next gig!
July 21st, 2009, in absolutely Category: Music, in absolutely My Bands
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