Johnny and David..."The Cracker / CVB Acoustic Duo Tour 05." Western run Day
5. Hello friends....thank you everyone who braved the relentless rains to come
and see us. The first three shows have been an absolute pleasure for us...
2/20 : The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano CA was
delightfully packed. The first show of a tour can be a little rusty but due to
the great crowd response we soon felt right at home replete with synapsis firing
back to life. David and I had a good night taking the occasional boisterous
request (including one from my two year old son) and pulling out some rarely
played songs.
2/21 : The Big Fish Pub in Tempe AZ. This cool little punk
rock club did a great job of setting the show up for us last minute after the
original venue closed mysteriously. The night was whiskey fueled and rowdy for
an "acoustic" show. Our buddies The Drive By Truckers would have been proud me
thinks. The staff at the club were hospitably appreciative....so much so that
shots of a certain German poison were lined up on the bar after the show which
led to....
2/22: Solar Culture Tucson AZ. Hangovers pummelling us from
within, we inched our way from Tempe to our long beloved Tucson. David started
the show with this recently learned wisdom...."Never try to keep up with your 25
year old tour manager". I’ll drink to that....water. For those of you who may
not know, Cracker has had a decade and a half love affair with Tucson. We
recorded herein 93, naming the 4 song EP after the town....it contained the
first recording of "Eurotrash Girl". Years later wrote a batch of songs here
which became most of our record "Forever". I recently returned to record most of
my solo record here as well with local alt country legend Teddy Morgan
producing.
2/23 : With our multi tasking, multi talented tour
manager/soundman Casey at the wheel we made the long drive to San Diego through
sheets of silvery desert rain. The storms out here have been so relentless that
the normally gray brown desert is now a bright green....the weeds overtaking the
cacti for visual attention. Beautiful day of gray, stopping for a fine, cheap
Mexican lunch halfway. "Life is good...or so it seems."
