DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME;

"Ah...the Culinary Art of Rock and Roll"

(clockwise: Steffan, Ulrich, Chapple, Kose, Daddyo, Mike, Bjorn, Andreas, Anna,
Glenn's hands and Rusty) Some band and crew members take advantange of the free
food before the Athens show!

From reading the Diaries, you may get the impression that all we care about is
eating. Well, that's only HALF of it. Problem is, unless it's your day off,
you may not get a decent meal so imagine having 3 to 4 shows in a row. The
food you may get is a catered BLAH meal from the venue or a cash buy-out that
leaves you in a situation where you have between 6pm and 8pm to find a
resteraunt, relax and then eat. And if your in the ensemble, that leaves even
less time because those guys (and gals) even (chuckle) PRACTISE before a show!

So you can imagine how happy we were to have a nice big (FREE!) meal in Athens
the day of the show. Normally, it would have been the day before the show but
the damn Frech at Ryan Air went on strike the DAY we were supposed to fly to
Athens from Dublin (via London) and we wound up at some Heatrhow hotel eating
wonderful British hotel food (yeah, right!) But when we got all checked in to
our hotel and then it was a 1 minute walk to the resteraunt where Greek
Promoter, George, brought us out some red wine and appetizers.

I think things like that make the show THAT much better cause everyone played
better and everyone was happy. So next time you see (violinist) Ketil or
(bassist) Chapple walking around beore a show, share your sandwich or something
like that cause we really are hungry and every little bit helps.....I went to
get coffee this morning and didn't realize I was wearing a LOVE F.C. tour
t-shirt and my unltr-rare LOVE touring jacket (a gift to us from Gene) so you
can imagine how embarrassed I was to notice several people eyeing the LA WEEKLY
May 30 Royce Hall Ad and then eyeing me!

It's a nice, half page Ad and it's nice to see people checking it out. That
show is a little more than 3 weeks away. The Swedes fly out the day before so
we'll have to show them a good LA time that night. Because we're flying to
every show, we actuyally have a day off in S.F. on sunday (June 1) and a day
off in Chicago on monday, the next day. And I'm just thinking of Uno's pizza
right now...and if there's time, maybe some Mediteranean food with Fritz before
the show? Gee, all this talk of food is making me hungry...

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Mike Randle
mike@lovewitharthurlee.com

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