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STUART - MICHIGAN

Saturday, June 16th, 2001
Michigan

This is Stuart. Stuart is one of my next door neighbors in Michigan. Every morning (afternoon) when i'm here, we meet at the fence, just a few steps outside my door. This is definitely not the road.

Tuesday, June 5th, 2001
San Diego - The Casbah
THE CASBAH - SAN DIEGO

Casbahs an interesting club. Wonderful audience. Hot and stuffy and jammed with people. I walked off stage twice to go outside and get some air. The staff scrambled to find fans and air-conditioners and they did open the door for me. The audience waited while i breathed fresh air, Michael and Ernie kept playing. Jay, from the sound booth, over the microphone said in a very calm voice, “Patty, they’re working on it..they’re attending to it now.” which meant, fine, leave the stage to get some air, but don’t keep walking. I came back. The set ended up being the best of this road trip. Over and out, San Diego.
 

Monday, June 4th, 2001
Los Angeles - Knitting Factory
 
REHEARSAL - KNITTING FACTORY

They must think i’m a Pulitzer prize winning author or something. No other woman in Los Angeles would appear at lunch without make-up and with computer and books in hand and at table. The slicked back hair proprietor of this Italian restaurant with sidewalk tables took me in with great ceremony. He said he was giving me a table that would accomodate all my “things.” When I ordered the lamb chops, the entire staff was buzzing, preoccupied with the unadorned woman with nondescript reading glasses who was eating meat, reading a book, no cell phone in sight, and probably weighing in at 10 lbs over the cultural norm.
 

Saturday, June 2nd, 2001
Las Vegas - Clark Co. Gov. Center Ampitheatre
 
ELEVATOR IN LAS VEGAS
Windy and hot in Las Vegas. The concert was outdoors with people comfortably on the grass with blankets, kids, food and wine. Good enough concert but so much wind the music flew off the stage and one could hear the wind in the microphones. I was also imagining dying under the tarp that was about to come down on top of us... it was flapping wildly. Understandably, I couldn't concentrate completely. Although I love my new arrangement of the song.."besame mucho." its very smooooth but feels delicious in the throat.

 

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