some folks hanging out after the gig:
our new friend, skip, who jammed with us on his harmonica for a song during our second set that night:
freddy's house in kasterlee, belgium:
as i mentioned in some earlier blog postings, Boss Tweed spent its last few days in belgium in a studio recording 4 songs for lisa clark (below) freddy is managing her and has big plans to make her a superstar in belgium. she's an innocent 19 year old, she's got a sweet voice and she's a lot more attractive than the other belgian 'stars' on the scene at the moment. she currently gigs with a karaoke setup since she doesn't have a proper band (that's where we come in) we got to see one of her gigs last friday at a goodwill store a couple villages over from kasterlee. her she is belting out dolly parton classics:
before lisa performed there was a square dance for some of the local elderly folks. quite a scene:
i couldn't resist taking this picture outside the goodwill store. the yellow sign is an ad for lisa's show. the other sign advertises a donkey for sale. ah belgium...
some pics from the studio... here's freddy hard at work producing the record:
carolyn laying down tracks in the vocal booth:
hamming it up in the control room:
it was a great experience. freddy did a good job booking the tour and Boss Tweed delivered night to night. we got to play in areas of the world we probably have no business being in and enjoyed meeting all the folks along the way. here's a few more random photos from the road:
eric's pre-show warm up routine in lugano, switzerland:
me warming up before the gig in lucera, italy:
me bored at freddy's house:
a view outside our hotel the morning we left slovenia. the mountain in the photo is in austria, we were about 4 kilometers from the boarder.
i s'pose that's about it! i'll post more photos when i get a chance to go through them all. on the 14th, eric flew home to nyc and carolyn and i flew to italy to visit our friend, mike tacconi, at his amazing country inn located in the hills of folignio, italy, in the umbria region. click on Genius Loci for link to his inn's website. i had the pleasure of driving this car from rome to foliginio. mike's place is up in the hills of folignio so it was a blast to zip around in a stickshift. this thing was tiny... small enough that we barely got all of our gear and baggage in the back.
below... one of the 3 rainbows we saw yesterday from mike's house. this place is amazingly beautiful. you can see 4 medieval towns in the valley surrounding the inn... gorgeous. i'll post a bunch of photos of the italian countryside soon.
ciao for now!
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