Sort of had a day off on Monday as we had no evening performance.  We did, however, have to get up at 5AM to load into the Cleveland Fox Station.  We’d been invited to be the Band for the Day on the very popular morning show and despite my distaste for singing in the early morning, I jumped at the opportunity to play in front of a viewership of over 2 million.

The folks at the Station were kind to us and gave us several hits on the broadcast.  We, of course, took over the place as much as possible and even invaded the Anchor area;

We left the Fox Station and went directly to the Hotel in downtown Cleveland. We were pretty bagged, but the rooms were not ready.  I took advantage of the time to have a dandy breakfast at the Juniper Grill, I believe, and did my laundry in between Eggs Benny’s.  Very productive, I thought.
Just as the clothes were dry, the lady gave me a key to my room.  I’m off to a flying star on this day, I thought.  Who knows what else I could get done.  I went to my room and lay on the bed for a moment, and woke up three and a half hours later.  I swear I woke up at 3PM and I felt like I had been on Acid for a whole weekend.  Completely spaced out and had not a j.d. clue where I was.  I honestly had to look at the hotel card on the desk to remind myself I was in Cleveland.

Not much to report from the rest of that day.  I returned many overdue emails and surfed the web till I could not stare at the screen any longer, then had a supper with some of the lads in the hotel bar.  I was in bed by midnight.

Played golf with Bob and Driver JP on Tuesday and had a blast.  Did not score that well, as I have not been playing much, but managed a 94 as my putter saved me more than once.  I was hoping to play a lot on this run, but the daytime press commitments have been pretty consistent, and that is a good thing, I suppose.

We had good crowds at the two Ohio shows considering much of the State is still without electricity and many folks are at home dealing with Insurance Companies that are threatening to go out of business any day.  Not to mention the fact that the economy is way down, price of gas is way up.  I suppose if you plan to be in a touring band for fifteen-plus years, you have to expect to roll with the punches.

Currently sitting behind the Theatre in Pittsburgh.  Already made an appearance at a morning TV Station, did some exercise at the local YMCA, ate some Mexican, bought a few gifts for the Family, did sound check, had a band conference call with Manager Louis, rehearsed a new set of tunes with Bob, and have all but typed a new FTR Blog.  It is not quite 5PM.  
Jaysus, still 3 hours till Showtime.  Where does the time come from?

Rock on.

Cheers,
Alan