09-07-1998
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon
 
Staying up late at a house filled with Pittsburgh rockers. Andy, Tim, Vicky and James stayed at Karl Hendricks' house and I voted for the party. It's been a nice night. Told lots of jokes and heard lots of jokes. Drank beer and sat on the porch smoking and having nice conversation.

The show was in a big hall at Carnegie Mellon, down the way from the Cathedral of Learning. The Cathedral of Learning is a comical building -- it's huge, it's a tower, it's a skyscraper, but it's part of this university and somehow it seems so funny. It's about 60 stories tall. What they do in there is anyone's guess.

Like I say, our show was down the street. It was a college show, with college kids ineptly running the million dollar P.A. The kids in attendence seemed to have a good time. We Ragazzi opened the show. The band is fronted by a brassy wild-eyed Italian kid but there are three people in the band and the other two are very attractive women who had me and a few other other uppity guys doing all sorts of comical, desperate dances in the hallway outside. I won't explain this in detail.

We played our show in this kind of silent-film conceptual way. We had a readerboard displaying the title for each song we played. I'd hoped to have Colleen, the knockout We Ragazzi keyboard player, turning the pages as we ended each song, but instead settled for Andy. He's a knockout in his own right. Andy felt like this was our best show of the tour so far and I would not disagree. Still no show has made me tremble but this one went pretty well.

Tomorrow we play in Philadelphia and the night after in New York. The tour is going well so far, considering the hazards we've faced (I know I've already said that but now you know it's true).


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