Day 2
Blueberry Hill, St Louis, 28 April 2005
Apparently this is Chuck Berry's club. The performances have been improving, and we're getting the hand of unloading the giant piano. You have to get it out of its case and then put the legs on. It's very inconvenient.
I got trapped in the bay today. The bays are the storage areas under the bus. Most of the stuff is in the trailer, but we keep a few of the smaller cases in the bay so they don't get thrown around - there's a lot of room in the trailer. I was leaning in to reach the cymbal case when the door started closing on its own and I had to leap in to avoid getting hit. It was scary for a moment because there's no way of opening the bays from the inside. I was probably only there for a few minutes but it was fairly unpleasant. Jason, who opened the door found it pretty funny though.
I'm enjoying the new three-piece version of the band. We can still do very small, delicate things, but we can also be noisy. The range is a bit wider, which is refreshing. I guess it's been a year since we last played with proper drums.
