Started the day at the Brandenburg Gate and doing some touristy things then I made my way over to Budde Music Publishing. It was really nice to put a face to the names on our contract. Be great if some things come to fruition. How about The Edge? I slept in the car outside the club for over an hour. No complaints, it felt good. Nice to not have to bring one and super easy to dial in.
Small crowd as it was a bit wam in there, probably 25—30 outside listening but only 10 or so inside. That was unexpected. They were super nice and already a bit drunk, but I had a 9 am call time at Potsdamer Platz so I did not go out. It may make me a bit of a square at times but I do take what I do seriously. We talked guitars for a few, now this is interesting to me - On Friday night someone asked me what kind of rental car I was driving. I have no idea. Sebastian had a nice Gibson, I spotted it right away.
Turns out his Martin D28 got stolen at another gig fairly recently and this is still new to him. Sounded fantastic. We get to talking and he tells me that he once took a VW Van up the California coast. I explain to him that I rent space for my studio from some folks Diane Staggs that rent VW campers vans. After a few minutes of Internet searching and looking at his video - yep.
Same folks. World gets smaller again. We make plans to meet in the lobby in a few minutes. Sorry guys. I guess playing 6 sets of music in 2 days is tiring. Sunday I get up and plan to do some Berlin Wall history stuff, you know anniversary a day late - whatever. See pics. Then I started the long drive back to Bremen, made longer by road construction and rain. Something I will say for Americans back home reading this - we could really learn a lot about driving from the Germans. But through all of this - people stay to the right unless they are passing.
We as a country suck at driving. Back in Bremen now and doing some guitar re-stringing I get about 2 days out of a set of strings and dinner. I learned that this tiny bottle of wine I bought is crap why would you make red wine sweet?? But I survived, new lesson learned today. I may be playing there. Would be good to know so I can coordinate laundry day with the showtime. Have now been approached by many teenagers who have a form that they ask to be signed to help children around the world and they ask for a donation.
