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DIA CUATRO
(I'm going to run out of languages soon!)
At last… a good night's sleep!! Probably because
the bus wasn't moving, but I am grateful for it anyway!! The sun
is shining, the sound and light truck are here and I am sitting
here in the back lounge writing to you! Tonight will be a bit crazy
I think… Berlin is where Sony's head office is and Jens Frerichs,
our agent, is also based here so we are expecting to meet a lot
of people tonight!
That's all fine and well of course but it's you guys I care about
most so I am hoping for a good crowd because this is a great venue!
The name is "Sound" and it's a very typical Berlin club…
all black and industrial, with lots of silver metal around. Apparently
we played for Rainer at the previous "Sound" club in a
different location but that was in 1974 and I don't remember that
at all!!! Funny thing… we are quite a long way from the city,
so it's a bit like playing in Berlin without ever actually seeing
it!
It's time to do a little work, take a shower and get ready for the
day so I'll be back a bit later………
The atmosphere here has been very relaxed all day as we hung out
in the car park!! Martin and John Wetton arrived from London and
the catering arrived and we had a fairly straight forward sound
check. The room is big and boomy but a few people will help that.
Perhaps the worst thing was that, even though the building itself
is huge, the stage is actually quite small and a difficult shape.
The opening band, "Mother's Little Helpers" arrived and
set up, Knut from Sony arrived and gave me all the latest scores
from the World Cup (I guess Brazil got lucky eh Rod??) and we began
to get ready for the show.
This was a difficult show. The opening act moved my B3 and that's
always trouble so things weren't in sync from the start. Then Ade
got food poisoning and was very ill!! He had to leave the sound
board (Paul was able to fill in for him fortunately but, at the
time, none of us on stage knew what was going on at all!). The sound
on stage was definitely weird and we never really settled down so,
for once, we had to settle for less than our best and none of us
was very happy about that!
The strange thing in these situations is that the audience generally
doesn't know all this is going on and so the crowd reaction was
excellent but we have already begun to set very high standards and
we had to spend some time "encouraging" each other afterwards.
I know I always report the good things but I don't think it hurts
to share the not-so-good things too. Life on the road is challenging
and these things happen but it will make us stronger for tomorrow…
as it should!!
Next day...
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