Sound check is quick, and once we're done, tom and i go on a walk around the neighborhood. Sometimes the house kits can be a little beat up, but this one is a pretty together mapex yellow sparkle kit, and same size drums as i play at home, so it's pretty comfortable. Turns out the club has a drum kit in back though, so i decide to use that so our changeover will flow better, and the other band can stay set up behind us. We're all using the gear the czech brought w/ them. Grey skies on our way to utrecht, but once there we get some sun, but not much warmth to go w/ it. Also dirk for pickin' up me and watt and gettin' us to LAX. As it was enroute, her aunt rosio, got me prepped, and took out the temporary, and her aunt nena glued it in.totally freakin awesome ladies, i owe them big time.
A few hours before we left to the airport, her cousin went and tracked down the fedex driver who was delivering my fake tooth to her aunt's dental office. First, my girl paloma, who gives me an endless amount of support w/ most anything i do, and her family as well. And actually, should thank give thanks to some other folks as well. Would like to thank Christine and Masai again for making us feel so welcome in their home. Most the gear is on the van, so after a quick breakfast, us missingmen and hyori throw in the few things we've brought, and head to the netherlands to get the 1st gig under our belt. we all end up only gettin' a couple hours of sleep.
No dice, i hear tom and watt hangin out, so i get up to join 'em both downstairs. I was feeling tired after dinner, so i snuck away and tried to get some good rest. Great guys, got the chance to talk and get to know 'em over dinner. Even though we've been here in Equery for a few days trying to get use to the time shift, it's still been hard for me to get on a good sched, getting tired during the day, and wide awake at 4am The czech guys arrived about 6pm the night before we bail to start this tour. We're up about 8am this morning, not too much sleep last night.