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I thought I'd add a story to this one: I called this one "Hot Date"
It's an "oldy but goody" story I found in the archives going some years back, 12/2/02 to be exact. It was entitled
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"On The Road Dating"
"Now we were on tour and flew in to Detroit to stay for a couple days. At the end of those couple days we're informed we have a 4 1/2 hour drive to get us to Torch Lake. We (the band "Stacia") figure we'll leave in the late morning and get there just in time before daylight ends. A good call, considering none of us has ever seen this place, plus snow and the possible "getting lost" factor - it just made good sense to get an early start...
We all had a nice "partying evening" when I decided to turn in for the night and get a good rest for the long "sit" in the car the next morning. Nice car mind you... "FULLY loaded, leather seats, Cadillac jeep of some sort... comfy but nonetheless, a long time to just "sit."
SOOoooooOOoooo long about 5 AM, I notice as I'm awoken, that I have a "Date" in bed with me..."Ahhhhhhhhhh" and "Oh no!" I say to myself... I've somehow gotten in bed with and dated one of the "Rhea" sisters. Now this isn't good...I've got a LONG drive ahead and here I am in bed with one of the Rhea sisters. As I know it, there are three sisters, we've all dated one of them at some point in our lives...as they're affectionately known as Dia, Pia and Gona...my date that evening was Dia....yes, Diarrhea.
OY VAY!!!!! She was ready to rock as I hurried to the bathroom... For the first round I just "hung on to the seat rim" and blasted away for a good ten minutes. Whew, she was talkative, "Okay, back to bed for a little rest, with luck she's happy and tired too." So I pull the covers over, get comfy and put my head down... When....I got that feelin'....Ahhh! She wants to dance....hurry and scurry to the bathroom I murmur, "C'mon" be gentle I've got a five hour drive I don't have time to play...."
Well, I wish the toilet seat had a seat belt...Whoa can she dance! I'm weak, tired and concerned now about the "Fully loaded car with leather seats under my fully loaded butt!" what a time for us to not have the tour bus. Well, we danced the Twist, the Watusi and Cha-cha-cha until she decided she had had a nice enough time as she faded from the evening. I thanked her for her consideration for my plight of a long drive and bid her a "Farewell" as I headed for a nice hot shower and a breakfast of "Kaopectate." The car ride was "Cautious" but "uneventful."
Kapopectate, I salute you!"
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Came up with and developed a new technique for the NS/Stick whereas I can thumb pop/snap the bass line and at the sametime strum chords. I have been working on it for a few months and now it has become a functional technique. It's one thing to do something cool and as an added bonus to have it develop into a functional form of expression that is easily accessable. I'll put a youtube together for it. I have some deluxe grooves written and will make a nice 'thing' out of it.
Called a good buddy of mine "Greg Ellis" (Vas) and other Narada label projects. Just to say hi and now that I think about it he would be great to join me on this one.
He had a 'not so great experience' happen on tour. The kind that you know will make a good story if you get out of it alive. He lands in Dubai, a quick stop over. He gets off the plan to look around, stretch his legs and unknowingly wanders out into a restricted area. Dubai Police come... arrest him, take him out of the airport, into a car then. put in a jail cell. No one speaks English and no one tells him why or what is going on. Later moved to another cell where there are other inmates, one who speaks a little English. He finds out that they suspect him of being a terroist.
Then gets driven in an umarked car to another building and cell. Told him they now suspect him of terroizm. Still no phone call for him. Long story short after much anquish, he is released and told never to come back.
(Greg Ellis)
So lucky for him, his family and me, he returns to us in one piece, with all his limbs and a darn fine story.
All for now, rest time.
Don
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