I am in fact alive and well. Right now I'm in my cozy room in Santa Barbara, CA looking at the mountains and contemplating how to convince Mrs. E-Rock that we should move here. Any ideas?
Time is consumed by a constant and steady schedule of load ins and load outs, long sleepy drives followed by the same load ins and load outs. Somewhere in that schedule, we manage to entertain a small army of people one city at a time. Truthfully, this show is something magical. The audience has a genuine love for Stevie in a way that I have never experienced and Stevie genuinely shares that love for his audience. The energy in the venue for the couple of hours of show makes the hair stand up on the back of my arm. I didn't have any idea what I was getting into, and I thought this was just another show. I couldn't have been more wrong and I am privileged to be a part of this.
--- sound guy stuff ---
11 players, 82 inputs, 18 wedge mixes and 6 stereo IEM mixes takes 2 DigiCo D5 Live Consoles to manage. This means 2 splitter boxes, 4 MADI boxes to interface with the consoles, 3 splits off of the main snake, and dozens of sub snakes peppered all over the stage. Believe it or not, this is organized.
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An off day in Santa Barbara gave me an opportunity to explore another place in this country I call home. I had Lunch with some other Roadie friends.
I found the ocean.
... and I found some locals that drove an interesting vehicle.
It seems that the Santa Barbara bums don't have such a bad life.
While we're in Santa Barbara we might as well do a show tomorrow. 10,000 more people are waiting for us.
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