02-14-10 LA CA: 1140 hrs. At the office. I got back to USA a few days ago. The flights from Czech Republic were relatively painless.
The rest of the shows in Europe were good. If you were at any of them, thanks for showing up, I look forward to when next we meet.
The last few days have been very busy. There will be a Stooges Raw Power box set released soon. It will have remastered tracks and outtakes. I contributed to the liner notes and took part in a documentary that is being put together by doc. extraordinaire Morgan Neville. It’s always an honor to be a part of one of his projects. There is a Black Sabbath documentary that is being made, I was interviewed for that one as well. As you can imagine, the office has its obligations.
New Talking CD: There’s a new talking CD by yours truly called Spoken Word Guy Vol. 1. The title is derived from the cover photo of the CD. We were in Spain for a talking show in 2008 and the man waiting to pick us up had a sign that said “spoken word” and I thought that would make a good photo, so I shot it before he saw me. We decided to make it the semi-generic cover for the next series of talking CD releases. We have been recording shows on the last several legs of the tours and we will hopefully be able to put out a few that will be to your liking. This first one is from the wonder Birchmere Theater in Alexandria, Virginia, the night before the last presidential election, November 3rd, 2008. It is a 2CD set. We will have them on this upcoming North American tour and they will also be available from MusicToday.
The shows for the second North American leg are almost booked and we will post the dates as soon as we can. Any place that I usually get to and am not, I will most likely get there later in the year. You know me, I will do my best to get out to you.
Thank you for all the kind e-mails wishing me happy birthday. I know all of you have birthdays as well that are no less important so happy birthday to you whenever yours is.
The tour starts in three days. I have to unpack, launder, repack and get ready to hit it the road so that’s what I’m going to do the rest of the day and into the night. I am looking forward to getting out there. See you at the show. Thanks for reading this. Henry