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Below you will find the unabridged version. I was even asked by my friend Larry Blumenfield over at Jazziz Magazine to keep a journal of the tour for excerpted publication. So much has happened since then that I also cannot believe that the tour only happened a few years ago, in 1997.Īnyway, the press angle worked right away. Looking back, I can’t believe we survived the tour.
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Three quarters of a year later we were on our way to playing a demanding but successful set of dates in Manhattan, Boston, D.C.
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“Why don’t we just call a bunch of clubs in New York where nobody knows us, hook up with local cats and play gigs wherever they’ll have us? It won’t cost the label much, the press will be great (‘who are these guys anyway?’), and we get to hook up with local players.” We had heard how bands like the Pat Metheny Group had gotten started by piling into vans & going town to town playing whatever clubs would have them. Some time in the summer of 1996, as Laurence and I were driving back from gigs in Minneapolis, we decided to try to make some work for ourselves. Published in the November, 1997 issue of Jazziz Magazine Intro Since the intro is part of the original text, I’ll just leave you to it. The following odyssey was published in the November 1997 issue of Jazziz Magazine.