Doppler, A Roadies View

Hello Cleveland!!! Hello Cleveland

The road is a strange and wonderful place at times. You see things and get to meet people from many walks of life. After several shows and many miles traveled the crew arrived yesterday in the city dubbed the Home of Rock & Roll, HELLO CLEVELAND!! To coin the line from the movie Spinal Tap.

We spent Sunday eating, going to the movies and hitting the nightlife. I had a chance to see the film “28 Weeks Later”. If you enjoyed the first film “28 Days Later” you will like this one too. We ended eating at an expensive restaurant which I usually only do once a tour. I had the lobster tail of course, which put a huge dent in my per diem.

While reading the local entertainment rag, we noticed that Lemmy was in town. As some of you know I am a fan of Motorhead and yes the man himself was in town playing a club. On this night it was with his side project The Headcat, which also includes the drummer from the Stray Cats. The play a couple original’s but mainly rock and roll standards. It was very cool and if you can you must check it out.

Today we decided to hit the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Now I have been there several times over the years including several times with artist’s who performed for events there. Today we were treated to a behind the scenes look at items that are not on display but are located in the vault. This included the last passport of John Lennon. The jacket Prince wore in Purple Rain, one of Steven Tyler’s outfits and a jacket owned by Hank Williams Sr.

They will be opening an exhibit for the Doors starting next week and we saw a couple of the old guitar cases in the vault. Unfortunately the guitars were already in the display cases, which we didn’t get to see, we asked if we could get a sneak peek. They politely denied.

The nice young lady who runs the vault mentioned to us that a few of the things on display are actually copies. One of them was a song lyric that Lennon had written on the back of what looked like a brown grocery bag. We saw the copy on the exhibit floor later. I wonder how many others are copies.

We have just four shows left on this run. There are a couple of one off’s in June which I will probably be doing.

In the meantime I am looking for a summer tour. I have a few things in the fire but nothing has confirmed.

I hate looking for work.

Labels: Concert, Five For Fighting, Road

posted by Doppler at 7:08 PM