We will never leave college.
After accumulating a combined total of some 50 years of university study, the members of 8bb now spend several months each year teaching, coaching and generally making a nuisance of ourselves at all manner of liberal arts colleges, state universities and music conservatories around the US.
It is always a refreshing surprise [...]
The phone rings at 4.30am, exploding any vaguely triumphant rock-star dreams about the previous night’s concert. It’s the hotel wake-up call, signaling a mad 15-minute dash to leave the hotel: I take a very hot shower to rouse myself into semi-consciousness; clothes are flung, crumpled into an already over-stuffed suitcase; piles of accumulated quarters, nickels [...]
I understand that my recent obsession with “miscellany” entries is a bit out of control. We’ve been on the road for 3 1/2 weeks, and the sort of clear thinking required for a semi-intelligible blog entry is impossible during either semi-comatose travel days or hectic, balls-to-the-wall concert days. And taking photos of ridiculous things is [...]
