After me and them Long Beds finished up at Phoenix Park the other night, we set up and played loud at the Mousetrap. Mike O’Brien shot some photos and now they’re viewable over on the Volume One site.
Man, it was hot in there. Thank goodness I brought not one but two New Auburn Area Fire Department sleeveless t-shirts!
As the photo below reveals, I am a singer of great sensitivity:
Here’s another album of photos from the recent Mabel Tainter show. Two of my favorites:
Billy crushes me with his guitar.
Big finish with “After Waymore’s Blues.”
Volume One has put up an album of photos from the Long Beds show at the gorgeous Mabel Tainter.
You never know who’s going to show up backstage (this was at the theater in Alma).
Much more normal audience members in Spencer, Wisconsin:
Thanks to photographer Glenn.
Photographer Mike O’Brien shot the QuinnElizabeth/Long Beds concert the other night. You can see the rest of the photos (at much higher resolution) here.
Had some voice trouble last year. Good news was, I knew a great speech therapist. Not only did he help me out, we had fun doing it. Among other things, if you see me driving down the road saying “mmmmmMMMMMMMMWHAHOWAREYOU?” over and over, it’s fine, I’m just workin’ out. Drive on.
He has also decreed – especially when I’m on the road – that I do morning and evening sessions with a steam inhaler (clearly I am working my way up to diva). Today as I was leaving the hotel room I saw the steamer sitting there and wondered what someone might think if they came in and didn’t know the backstory.
So. To the kind person who delivered clean towels in my absence, no, that’s not an electrified water bong.
Although I know at least three dudes who could totally do the conversion.
From an all-day session at the studio with the Long Beds (actually Molly came in a day later):
After that last shot, when Chuck had cased up his secret weapon, he and I retired to the kitchen for homemade lentil/cabbage/pork sausage soup…thank you to my wife for that, for fresh apple cake, and as always, for forbearance. She is the solid center of my mental contraptions.
A portion of the studio where we’ve been recording is built over an old swimming pool. Engineer Jaime discovered that if he suspended a microphone in the vast space below the floor, it picked up some fine reverberant goodies. Recording engineers love this sort of stuff (geek alert!).
Long day of recording yesterday (Sunday). Long Beds guitarist/keyboardist/MENSA-head Chris stayed overnight but forgot his suitcase in St. Paul. Fortunately, I have a lot of extra fire department t-shirts. The guy who gave us this one knows who he is…Thanks, Barry!
Long Beds recording sessions continue. Billy was inside recording an acoustic guitar part so Chuck and I took the opportunity to gather acorns for my porkers. What you see here is an eminently talented bassist scooping up free pig food with a child’s snow shovel. This is a pretty relaxed crew.
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