Fellow tour manager and friend Matt Johnson hooks me up with a tour of the US with the UK band Embrace. A great bunch of gentlemen to work, the tour went well overall. The band carried their own in-ear system, which made all of the shows much, much easier in many ways, especially as we were playing the smaller clubs, most with monitors from FOH, which in this case worked out just fine, as the bands mix requirements were fairly simple, and I didn’t need to spend time working on some crap wedges, that would only sound so good anyway.
Embrace at the Troubadour in Los Angeles
Matt, our tour manager, had a vacation scheduled the same time as the last couple of days of the tour. He was going to have another tour manager come out and take care of the last bit, but then convinced me in the end to take care of the tail end of things.
He gave me his US cell phone, and as I got tired of keeping track of the two of them, I taped them together into one SUPER PHONE! Brain cancer twice as fast…
And since I wasn’t necessarily prepared to TM, I didn’t have my printer with me… So back to the old school hand made day sheets.
The 4th of July was spent as a day off in St. Louis. I think I was the only one to go out and see fireworks. Can’t say I blame an English band for giving a rats ass about Independence Day!
After the fireworks we head off to Kansas City for a quick show on the 2nd stage at the Verizon Amphitheater, and then I send them all off to fly home and go right to Live8. Meanwhile Brendan and I ride the bus back to it’s home in Atlanta before flying home to San Francisco.
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