S*T*U*F*F* Reloaded

Every tour has to have a “worst show” - and it will be hard to beat the appalling nightmare that bestowed itself upon us last night. Something happened to JB’s midi controller which put all of his keyboards just shy of a quarter-tone sharp. The racket was hideous, from the very first notes of “Radian”. It would have been the best thing to have just stopped the show for a few minutes to restart all the devices, but that didn’t happen. EVERYTHING seemed to be out of tune with everything else. Just awful - my worst nightmare.

Still, Amsterdam was beautiful today. The true first day of spring, which made me miss my family more than ever for some reason. Blue sky and sun, the myriad bicycles (nearly knocking me down on multiple occasions) and a sense of freshness. I do like Amsterdam a lot.

AFTER THE SHOW

OK, like I said - every tour has to have a worst show. For me, it was tonight… tempting fate by talking about equipment failures just before the show. Of course that meant that my Mac went down. Nightmare - running Guitar Rig, all my samples and effects were on it, and it just wouldn’t wake from sleep. Bastard… I had to leave the stage in the end, deciding on a “damage limitation” approach - I missed most of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th songs trying to get the computer back to the land of the living. It was the same problem I had before - a “wake from sleep” issue which is plaguing MacBook Pros. I don’t even want to think about it.