Tuesday, December 28, 2004
What´s up with Madrid bih?
What´s up world?
I am currently in Madrid and its the 27th. Christmas was interesting to say the least, we did a secret santa celebration in the hotel lobby at noon, and then we kinda just put our feet up until the show. Nothing was open except for the Mc Donald´s and a chinese restaurant, so my Christmas lunch was leftovers from Christmas Eve dinner (gas station goodies) and Wanton soup. We played our Christmas day show in Barcelona and we got to watch the group before us which was a Russian ballet troupe. The show was nice but they ran late, so we went on late and people we starting to come in while we were still sound checking. The concert went pretty well still, it was our best to date, and afterwards we were supposed to have a big dinner down at the Hard Rock Cafe, but they closed the kitchen just before we got there so we all wound up eating our Christmas dinner at Mc Donald´s. We were supposed to play a show tonight (but I forget in what city), but while we were on the roads it started snowing and they closed the road we needed to take to get there, so after they decided there was no way that we couldvé made it to the show, we just started to head here to Madrid (we don´t have our concert here until tomorrow night) and we have today to ourselves. So, in a nutshell, Christmas dinner sucked, but I got to see snow for the first time in years so I can go home a happy man now!
One love,
Merry Christmas
Happy New Year
Feliz Navidad
Prospero Nueve Ano (I dont know if that´s how you spell it...)
Holla Back!!!!!
I am currently in Madrid and its the 27th. Christmas was interesting to say the least, we did a secret santa celebration in the hotel lobby at noon, and then we kinda just put our feet up until the show. Nothing was open except for the Mc Donald´s and a chinese restaurant, so my Christmas lunch was leftovers from Christmas Eve dinner (gas station goodies) and Wanton soup. We played our Christmas day show in Barcelona and we got to watch the group before us which was a Russian ballet troupe. The show was nice but they ran late, so we went on late and people we starting to come in while we were still sound checking. The concert went pretty well still, it was our best to date, and afterwards we were supposed to have a big dinner down at the Hard Rock Cafe, but they closed the kitchen just before we got there so we all wound up eating our Christmas dinner at Mc Donald´s. We were supposed to play a show tonight (but I forget in what city), but while we were on the roads it started snowing and they closed the road we needed to take to get there, so after they decided there was no way that we couldvé made it to the show, we just started to head here to Madrid (we don´t have our concert here until tomorrow night) and we have today to ourselves. So, in a nutshell, Christmas dinner sucked, but I got to see snow for the first time in years so I can go home a happy man now!
One love,
Merry Christmas
Happy New Year
Feliz Navidad
Prospero Nueve Ano (I dont know if that´s how you spell it...)
Holla Back!!!!!
Friday, December 24, 2004
Feliz Navidad Bonnes Festes!
Hola!
What´s up world? So I actually DID make it out to Spain....(but it´s still as disorganized as I thought it would be) I´m out here in I think Catalonia, Sabbadel about an hour outside of Barcelona. We´ve made the trip pretty enjoyable, but the promoters have done nothing yet to impress us. But I´ll start from the beginning:
Our flight over went pretty smooth, we flew out of Miami to San Juan, then from there straight out to Madrid. When we arrived in Madrid, we only had about half our luggage, and 1/3 of our music equipment. (As it happened, the rest of our luggage somehow wound up in Mexico...) So we arrive at the hotel on Friday night, but most of us didn´t get our luggage until Saturday morning. Also, for some reason, people´s bags came back wet (????) I didn´t get my bags until Saturday either, but luckily all my stuff was intact and dry.
We played our first concert in Barcelona in a beautiful concert hall, at least 1000 people in attendance. Gospel music is foreign to the people out here, but they love (LOVE) "Oh Happy Day" (think Sister Act 2)! The crowd had given a very warm reception, but when we played that song at the end, they went crazy! It turned into a straight Baptist Gospel Concert! Everybody was standing up in their seats clapping and dancing...I would´ve never imagined anything like that happening, but we did three encores before we got off stage that night. We were pulling people on stage to dance and everything!
The vibe out here is really ill, the weather, the people, the food (the FOOD!) everything out here is beautiful! Everybody has a dog, but almost none of them are leashed, they are all really well trained, I even saw dogs in the department store today. The people are nice out here for the most part, but sometimes on a whole they seem pretty rude to me. Today is Christmas Eve so the stores are packed and people are always in eachothers way or bumping into eachother, but they don´t say "excuse me" or "perdona me", not even to eachother... Still I would definitely come back (just not with s.l. promotions). The Food is definitely one of the best things about being out in Spain so far, we have yet to go up into any clubs or anything, so it might change....but probably not. (Omigosh the food is off GLASS!!!)
Our second concert was pretty decent also, we were alot more comfortable than we were at the first one so we made a lot of little silly mistakes, and alot of the tempos were too slow, but still, the crowd loved it! (O Happy Day, killin´em!!!) I was deathly ill for that concert though I had a sinus cold up to here! My eyes felt like they were swimming in my head, but somehow I still made it onstage and the saxes did our thing! We still have some tightening up to do, but I think our concert tomorrow should really start to pick up the slack that´s still left.
Tomorrow is Christmas, so merry Christmas to all my fam and all my peoples! I will be missed, I know, but I´m in Spain y´know? LOL It´s going to be different tomorrow, not being around any family and being in a totally foreign place for Christmas...but it should still be pretty live (I mean c´mon, I´m in Spain!!!)
So that´s it for now, keep it peace and keep it safe!
Happy holidays
holla back world!
What´s up world? So I actually DID make it out to Spain....(but it´s still as disorganized as I thought it would be) I´m out here in I think Catalonia, Sabbadel about an hour outside of Barcelona. We´ve made the trip pretty enjoyable, but the promoters have done nothing yet to impress us. But I´ll start from the beginning:
Our flight over went pretty smooth, we flew out of Miami to San Juan, then from there straight out to Madrid. When we arrived in Madrid, we only had about half our luggage, and 1/3 of our music equipment. (As it happened, the rest of our luggage somehow wound up in Mexico...) So we arrive at the hotel on Friday night, but most of us didn´t get our luggage until Saturday morning. Also, for some reason, people´s bags came back wet (????) I didn´t get my bags until Saturday either, but luckily all my stuff was intact and dry.
We played our first concert in Barcelona in a beautiful concert hall, at least 1000 people in attendance. Gospel music is foreign to the people out here, but they love (LOVE) "Oh Happy Day" (think Sister Act 2)! The crowd had given a very warm reception, but when we played that song at the end, they went crazy! It turned into a straight Baptist Gospel Concert! Everybody was standing up in their seats clapping and dancing...I would´ve never imagined anything like that happening, but we did three encores before we got off stage that night. We were pulling people on stage to dance and everything!
The vibe out here is really ill, the weather, the people, the food (the FOOD!) everything out here is beautiful! Everybody has a dog, but almost none of them are leashed, they are all really well trained, I even saw dogs in the department store today. The people are nice out here for the most part, but sometimes on a whole they seem pretty rude to me. Today is Christmas Eve so the stores are packed and people are always in eachothers way or bumping into eachother, but they don´t say "excuse me" or "perdona me", not even to eachother... Still I would definitely come back (just not with s.l. promotions). The Food is definitely one of the best things about being out in Spain so far, we have yet to go up into any clubs or anything, so it might change....but probably not. (Omigosh the food is off GLASS!!!)
Our second concert was pretty decent also, we were alot more comfortable than we were at the first one so we made a lot of little silly mistakes, and alot of the tempos were too slow, but still, the crowd loved it! (O Happy Day, killin´em!!!) I was deathly ill for that concert though I had a sinus cold up to here! My eyes felt like they were swimming in my head, but somehow I still made it onstage and the saxes did our thing! We still have some tightening up to do, but I think our concert tomorrow should really start to pick up the slack that´s still left.
Tomorrow is Christmas, so merry Christmas to all my fam and all my peoples! I will be missed, I know, but I´m in Spain y´know? LOL It´s going to be different tomorrow, not being around any family and being in a totally foreign place for Christmas...but it should still be pretty live (I mean c´mon, I´m in Spain!!!)
So that´s it for now, keep it peace and keep it safe!
Happy holidays
holla back world!
