this gets me a bit more excited for this show...
I?ll be honest with you, if you wanna know: we?re working on a something right now. When it?s quiet around here you know I?m up to something. I have reached the ?when do I get to tell people about it? stage. I have become adept at remaining present to this stage, in a meditative style. There are four of us now. Our vision is growing broader. We are tending to it like Humboldt growers in possession of rare seeds during the pre-legal days.
But Matt and me ? Matt Douglas, I mean, our corner-man, the new guy, the one and only, the natural, He Who Wields the Bari Sax ? we?re going to hit the road for a weekend, just us two, since ?you have to do some shows with just JD and learn what it?s like when he forgets to count off? is a contractual requirement for full membership. Come! See us play stuff the full band never does! Watch Matt attempt to remain in good humor on tight four-counts that I say under my breath instead of aloud!
These are the first just-me-and-Matt shows since he joined the band, and I am amped for them. Changing the formation up over the past few years has resulted in some of my favorite shows ever ? me and Wurster at Carnegie Hall during the Evening of Awesome; me and Peter in Barcelona at the end of the Tuttlingen Warriors tour. I?m ambitious and will be listening to Bill Evans & Eddie Gomez sides from now til the shows to get myself psyched up. Come see these special shows if you have the chance!
-John
