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| These Summer Days |
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Page 2 of 5 When I first started touring no one had a cell phone or a Black Berry or for that matter a laptop. We had to make stops to give the driver a break, while we scouted out cheesy magazines, bad food and pay phones. Those stops were so important then, when it was a chance to call your spouse, your boyfriend/girlfriend, your kids, whoever you needed to connect with in order to get through the day. It is still important to master the art of boredom, because there can be a lot of empty hours to fill when the bus is rolling. Nowadays I bring a lot of books and writing journals. And I call home on my cell phone every night and ask to speak to the dogs.
My friend John Gorka, a singer-songwriter (and sometime rider with us) has a song called “The Gypsy Life” whose chorus I always felt was the calling card of folks like us,
We are always leaving too soon. After so many one-nighters, when you find yourself in a nice place, you just want to hang around for awhile, go to sleep in a bed that does not sit on wheels, walk the streets of a new town, find a coffee shop and read the morning newspaper as if you lived there, but you don’t because you left last night. The peripatetic nature of our work is one of the hardest parts of life on the road, no matter what the season. |
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