WHAT WOULD WILLIE DO?

SXSW part 1- The Sky Eats the Land tour rolls on through Austin for SXSW. The Penske and van and trailer are safe and sound. Sat in Live w/ Micky and the motorcars on guitar, we drank some whisky and Jesse danced. You might of seen Billy riverdance, but I bet you didn’t know Jesse could cut a rug :) It is quite impressive.

Couple days later Micky and I worked on a song called “LONG ROAD TO NOWHERE”. I don’t co-write enough, it was a blast. We grew up with Micky’s drummer Shane Vannerson, a near and dear friend. It’s great to see him rocking and rolling across the countryside. Another colorful character from Micky’s band of gypsies, their soundman Logan. A fan of Poodie Locke, (Willie Nelsons soundman), the boys love the phrase ”No Bad Days”. With that kind of positive energy you can get a lot done.

Let me make a quick mention my respect for Willie- with the exception of smoking weed, I believe lock stock and barrel in everything willie wrote in his fabulous book THE TAO OF WILLIE. Go buy this book- it’s simple, fun and filled with cowboy shaman wisdom.

I drove home after the show with Laura Sisul, a wonderful friend of ours who kindly let us crash with her aunt and uncle, Pete and Betty Golde. Pete and Betty live next door to Michael Dell (Dell computers) and as you can imagine, security is tight in this area. Once while walking the neighborhood, Pete and Betty were stopped by Uzipoint (now that's worse than gunpoint). Reminds me how I would like to be very successful in this life, but to be known as uber rich comes with it's own set of problems. Like Russell Simmons says, the goal is to make a TON of money and give about 95 percent of it away :) Within 2 mins of arriving with our lovely busted up van of 270k miles....A sheriff arrives and puts his brights right in our eyes. These LA and NY licenses don't seem to get you very far here in Tejas. My plea of being a KS boy dosen't mean much since in TX even Kansans are considered Yankees. "TX first, America second...".  I am happy to report that the gear in the trailer is quite safe tonight people and all is well.