ST Here.....Tampa, West Palm, Puerto Rico, Mohegan Sun...
Aero Force One
December 8, 2006
Hey yall, where do I start? WELL...sorry for the delay folks, but landed after Houston took Monty's plane to West Palm, stopped in Tampa for some fuel, then back to West Palm...we landed about 4:45am. We were all really draggin' it. Scott got us a rental car and we got to the hotel by around 5:30am...had the typical checking in, second wind syndrome...and of course had to unpack until at least 6:30/7am - watched the sun come up as we went to bed. Spent Monday in the warmth and sunshine of Florida. That night we had to go through some slides. So me, Joey, Brad, Erin, Scott, and Casey loaded up on the popcorn and twenty carousels and a thousand clicks later we had picked the photos to be used at our 'storytellers show' at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan...6 hours later we had the photos for the Beacon...for that day anyway. There was still a truckload of photos and videos coming from Boston...which we had to go over on the plane to Puerto Rico...BUT...you might have to wait for the book to hear the REAL story there...
Tuesday was another day off and believe it or not, no matter what people may think, most of my days off aren't days off at all. But thank god, on this Tuesday, Erin and I had the chance to go to Disney World. We rented a king air, jumped over to Orlando and spent 7 hours...with everything from Rockin'Roller Coaster to A Bugs Life...4 parks...36 rides...and 100 autographs later. We spent the night there with hopes to hit Universal the next day. Woke up to a barrage of phone calls...all about work... which negated any chance of ever seeing Universal...at least for this year. So we left around 4pm for the show in Tampa only to arrive 2 hours before the show... but enough time for a conference call about a very important secret photo session the band was going to do WHILST in New York...followed by a visit from none other than the legendary John Travolta...Mr. Be Cool himself with his wife, the stunning, Kelly Preston...wow. John is such a sweet friendly man only to be out weighed by the niceness of the people he was with...they were all very charming.
With 45 minutes to do makeup and warm up...and eat a lil salmon and broccoli we hit the stage runnin'. This was the 2nd to last outdoor show this tour...jumped in our plane...flew back to West Palm...woke up around 12 o'clock...where we quickly took a shower and headed over to the The Farmer Girl restaurant in Lake Worth...this was Thanksgiving Day and we decided to feed the homeless and needy people that couldn't otherwise afford a turkey meal. Casey shot Erin and I for 4 hours hopping from table to table while doing a local TV show that was filming for the news. A human interest type piece...it was a CBS affiliate...so they sent it to Boston and Boston sent it to CNN. It was on HEADLINE NEWS. This is the 2nd year in a row where Thanksgiving made me think how lucky to have such a blessed life...so all in all it was a perfect day...
So the 24th we played West Palm...Bob Kraft, the owner of the Patriots, his wife and some friends (who turned out to be the owner of a few department stores like Barneys, Saks...stuff like that) came out to sing a couple choruses of "Walk This Way." Bob showed up to give us his best and to let us know we'd see em' in the playoffs.
This was the last of the outdoor shows for this tour...dripping with female pulchritude... and guys in fancy suits...who all looked a distance cousin of Don Johnson from MIAMI VICE... all of them had that certain something going on that made you know you were nestled in the bosom of Florida and all its glory...the show was just south of fabulous.
Then it was off to Puerto Rico where we had to lease a plane to get our touring gear down there...after a certain amount of sherking and jiving with weight limitations and cutting back...we hit the stage with a bit less than we had in the states but after Joe took off his shirt we realized that what we left out of the production was always there anyway...as long as we play like we're on a mission and play to a few fans who know we are...
Had two days off before Mohegan Sun but like I said, are they really days off?
Took a flight from Puerto Rico...quick pit stop in Florida...then all the way back to Boston...we got in around 6am...watched the sun come up...again...got home at 7:30 fell asleep at 8...woke up at two...jumped right into a hair appointment and a conference call about the recording we were doing the next day with the Refugee Allstars, of John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance." Had dinner at the house with Chelsea and Taj and spent some time in my closet switching out clothes for the remainder of the tour in Canada. Woke up the next morning, headed over to the studio...where we spent the next 7 hours with Joe Perry, Marti Frederiksen, The Refugee Allstars, management, stylists and a barrage of cameras to get it all on tape which you'll all be seeing soon enough. The Refugee Allstars will be on Oprah soon and their documentary is playing on PBS this month...you gotta check this out. The strength these people showed to survive a war and wind up in a refugee camp is one of the most heart wrenching things you'll have ever seen in your whole life. Once again, the music did the talking...for their survival...and got them to where they are today...thank the lord above. When it came time to play at Mohegan Sun, Tom showed up for an exact reproduction of the Vegas video shoot for ESPN/Nascar. Only this time we would have Tom Hamilton in replace of David Hull! It was a good old fashioned home town gig...my kids showed up with their aunt and uncle and everybody I know in Boston. They get me through my daily goings on...whenever I'm home...that's the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker...three lawyers, two dentists and a partridge IN a pear tree. It was the 1st of the indoor shows...it was also a night of much changes...which after all is said and done...it turned out to be good things... even though the band has three weeks to go...sometimes changing mid stream, with key people isn't always so bad and can get you to a very different place. At the end of the day it's all good...cuz like Joe Perry says...'it all just gives us the good blessings to have another day to rock'...
I'll make up the rest of the gigs...when the sun comes up in Minneapolis...I wonder if it's purple...
With love,
December 8, 2006
Hey yall, where do I start? WELL...sorry for the delay folks, but landed after Houston took Monty's plane to West Palm, stopped in Tampa for some fuel, then back to West Palm...we landed about 4:45am. We were all really draggin' it. Scott got us a rental car and we got to the hotel by around 5:30am...had the typical checking in, second wind syndrome...and of course had to unpack until at least 6:30/7am - watched the sun come up as we went to bed. Spent Monday in the warmth and sunshine of Florida. That night we had to go through some slides. So me, Joey, Brad, Erin, Scott, and Casey loaded up on the popcorn and twenty carousels and a thousand clicks later we had picked the photos to be used at our 'storytellers show' at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan...6 hours later we had the photos for the Beacon...for that day anyway. There was still a truckload of photos and videos coming from Boston...which we had to go over on the plane to Puerto Rico...BUT...you might have to wait for the book to hear the REAL story there...
Tuesday was another day off and believe it or not, no matter what people may think, most of my days off aren't days off at all. But thank god, on this Tuesday, Erin and I had the chance to go to Disney World. We rented a king air, jumped over to Orlando and spent 7 hours...with everything from Rockin'Roller Coaster to A Bugs Life...4 parks...36 rides...and 100 autographs later. We spent the night there with hopes to hit Universal the next day. Woke up to a barrage of phone calls...all about work... which negated any chance of ever seeing Universal...at least for this year. So we left around 4pm for the show in Tampa only to arrive 2 hours before the show... but enough time for a conference call about a very important secret photo session the band was going to do WHILST in New York...followed by a visit from none other than the legendary John Travolta...Mr. Be Cool himself with his wife, the stunning, Kelly Preston...wow. John is such a sweet friendly man only to be out weighed by the niceness of the people he was with...they were all very charming.
With 45 minutes to do makeup and warm up...and eat a lil salmon and broccoli we hit the stage runnin'. This was the 2nd to last outdoor show this tour...jumped in our plane...flew back to West Palm...woke up around 12 o'clock...where we quickly took a shower and headed over to the The Farmer Girl restaurant in Lake Worth...this was Thanksgiving Day and we decided to feed the homeless and needy people that couldn't otherwise afford a turkey meal. Casey shot Erin and I for 4 hours hopping from table to table while doing a local TV show that was filming for the news. A human interest type piece...it was a CBS affiliate...so they sent it to Boston and Boston sent it to CNN. It was on HEADLINE NEWS. This is the 2nd year in a row where Thanksgiving made me think how lucky to have such a blessed life...so all in all it was a perfect day...
So the 24th we played West Palm...Bob Kraft, the owner of the Patriots, his wife and some friends (who turned out to be the owner of a few department stores like Barneys, Saks...stuff like that) came out to sing a couple choruses of "Walk This Way." Bob showed up to give us his best and to let us know we'd see em' in the playoffs.
This was the last of the outdoor shows for this tour...dripping with female pulchritude... and guys in fancy suits...who all looked a distance cousin of Don Johnson from MIAMI VICE... all of them had that certain something going on that made you know you were nestled in the bosom of Florida and all its glory...the show was just south of fabulous.
Then it was off to Puerto Rico where we had to lease a plane to get our touring gear down there...after a certain amount of sherking and jiving with weight limitations and cutting back...we hit the stage with a bit less than we had in the states but after Joe took off his shirt we realized that what we left out of the production was always there anyway...as long as we play like we're on a mission and play to a few fans who know we are...
Had two days off before Mohegan Sun but like I said, are they really days off?
Took a flight from Puerto Rico...quick pit stop in Florida...then all the way back to Boston...we got in around 6am...watched the sun come up...again...got home at 7:30 fell asleep at 8...woke up at two...jumped right into a hair appointment and a conference call about the recording we were doing the next day with the Refugee Allstars, of John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance." Had dinner at the house with Chelsea and Taj and spent some time in my closet switching out clothes for the remainder of the tour in Canada. Woke up the next morning, headed over to the studio...where we spent the next 7 hours with Joe Perry, Marti Frederiksen, The Refugee Allstars, management, stylists and a barrage of cameras to get it all on tape which you'll all be seeing soon enough. The Refugee Allstars will be on Oprah soon and their documentary is playing on PBS this month...you gotta check this out. The strength these people showed to survive a war and wind up in a refugee camp is one of the most heart wrenching things you'll have ever seen in your whole life. Once again, the music did the talking...for their survival...and got them to where they are today...thank the lord above. When it came time to play at Mohegan Sun, Tom showed up for an exact reproduction of the Vegas video shoot for ESPN/Nascar. Only this time we would have Tom Hamilton in replace of David Hull! It was a good old fashioned home town gig...my kids showed up with their aunt and uncle and everybody I know in Boston. They get me through my daily goings on...whenever I'm home...that's the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker...three lawyers, two dentists and a partridge IN a pear tree. It was the 1st of the indoor shows...it was also a night of much changes...which after all is said and done...it turned out to be good things... even though the band has three weeks to go...sometimes changing mid stream, with key people isn't always so bad and can get you to a very different place. At the end of the day it's all good...cuz like Joe Perry says...'it all just gives us the good blessings to have another day to rock'...
I'll make up the rest of the gigs...when the sun comes up in Minneapolis...I wonder if it's purple...
With love,
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