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"Life is good. Glamourous? No. Enviable? Depends on your perspective. I'll try and make another short post before I shut down for the holiday. For me shutting down isn't easy, but I think I've earned the right to at least try. If you'd like to see what driving for 13 hours straight did to me and Phyllis, (Kas drove 1500 miles to do a solo gig in Greenville, South Carolina!) check out these snippets of our trip at http://www.youtube.com/user/kasimsulton If
you have questions about the K Sulton bass or anything at all, you
can get in touch anytime at: All
the best to you and yours in the year ahead!"
I'll be letting you all know very soon what the next few months have in store for me. In the meantime, check out my new K Sulton Signature Bass from Archer. It's Road Tested and ready to go! Check back here frequently for further updates. - Kasim
We're
winding down here. We've only got five more shows to go on this
tour which started WAY back in MAY! According to my calculations
thats a little over four months on the road. Thats a long time in
anyone's book. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. I love what
I do and I thank my lucky stars each and every time I walk out on
that stage.
I've been doing this now for the past 29 summers give or take a few. Here in this country and abroad and I wouldn't trade it for the world. - Kasim_Kasi
- Kasim
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All said, the shows in Europe went really well. Packed houses everynight and lots of time off to lounge around or go sightseeing. Me? I've been to most of these places numerous times so there really isn't a whole lot for me to do on days off other than read, eat and sleep. I managed to squeeze in a few Movin' Out performances while I was on my break. It was great to be welcomed back into that show. I'll miss doing it once the play closes later this year. - Kasim
One of
the guitarists from the opening band, Hurricane
Party, was looking for a nice place in a field to have a bit
of a lie down. He chose a shaded spot behind a small Land Rover
truck just outside of the backstage area. He was resting quite peacefully
when the driver of the Land Rover needed to move the vehicle. Unfortunately,
the driver failed to notice the skinny blond guy sleeping behind
his truck and summarily ran over him! Not once, not twice, but THREE
TIMES. Thats right, he ran over the guy! Amazingly, Johnny the guitarist
walked away with only a broken wrist and tire tracks across his
back. Oh, and he probably did loose a couple of his allotted nine
lives in the process. Other than this little incident (and a few
others I can recall) the UK / Euro tour has gone great. Meat has
been in top form and the band has been tight.
- Kasim
We're lucky enough on this tour to be in a position where we can charter a medium size twin engine turbo prop for our travels from town to town. Yesterday we arrived at the airport for our appointed departure time, had our luggage x-rayed and took a small coach out to the tarmac where our plane was sitting. Our tour manager Bill was informed that the plane wasn't fueled yet and it was going to take at least a half-hour for the fule truck to get to us. Well ... someone (read Meat Loaf) was not at all happy because the plane was extremely hot. We were shuttled back to the private terminal but Meat chose to stay behind to have a 'word' with the fuel truck guy .... uh oh. Now, I wasn't there ... I got this next piece of info from Bill. It seems that Meat patiently waited until the plane was fueled then, as the guy was shutting the cap and putting the hose back in the truck, Meat nearly took the guy's head off for making us wait an hour past our departure time while he fueled other planes before us! One thing you DO NOT want to witness, or be on the receiving end of, is Meat Loaf's wrath. Imagine a 6' 1" guy at 230 pounds coming at you with a very mean look on his face intent on bodily harm! Bill held Meat back, the fuel guy was ready to run but in the end, it all worked out fine and we took off to a 'good riddance' in German from some guy who doesn't know how close to a hospital he had come! - Kasim For information on how to deal with anger control issues, please see www.apa.org/pubinfo/anger.html
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I wouldn't have minded except for the fact that I had made some plans for the evening. I have been missing the Todd Rundgren/Joe Jackson tour by a few days here and there since coming to Europe and yesterday was the one chance I had to be in the same town as them with a day off on a night they were performing. I was looking forward to seeing Todd and made arrangements to go to the show. Excitement at seeing Todd was replaced by disappointment at having to miss seeing him once again. Truth be told, I wasn't looking forward to a long bus ride on a show day either.
- Kasim
We're playing in Dublin tonight (JUNE 18TH, 2005 - Ardgillan Castle, Dublin, Ireland) ... same line up as last night. - Kasim
We did this yesterday as the show we're doing was in Holland. So it was up by noon, on the coach by 2, on our plane at 3. We flew into Muenster, Germany then had to take another coach one and a half hours to the Festival site. We got there in time to grab a bite to eat and catch the Crosby, Stills & Nash set before having to change for our show. I was watching CSN play when my tech Charlie came over and pointed out the Organist on stage with them, he asked if I knew who it was. He said it was Mickey Finnegan and I about fell over. For those of you who don't know him, he played with Jimi Hendrix. You can hear his playing on Voodoo Child Revisited. The guy is a legend playing with other legends. Man, I bet HE has some stories. The solo he did in "Carry On" was priceless. All in all, yesterday was more traveling than anything else and now I have a few days off to wander around Manchester, go to the movies, and find some nice restaurants. - Kasim
I plan on compiling everything Sunday and sending it off then. - Kasim
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