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WELCOME TO ONE OF THE WEB'S LONGEST RUNNING BLOGS
Bassist Tony Levin has been sharing his road experiences here since 1996 (which sounds fairly recent,
but in the Internet world, it isn't. Even the terms weblog and blog were coined in 1997 and 1999.)
We have over 400 archived tour pages on the site (with about 6,800 photos) and we're happy to have had 4 million visits.
May 14, Santiago
News flash: Our new Stick Men CD, Open, is available now from my Papabear online store.
Open is all improvised, though based on prepared textures by the band. It's ambient, but plenty powerful too.
We've been playing some of it on our tour (the track called "Open, Pt.3 - Truncheon") and reception has been great.
I've got the tour page going now, and by tonight I'll add a new page covering last night's Buenos Aires show.
May 13, Buenos Aires
Greetings from out on the road with Stick Men. Having done a quick round of the East Coast in the U.S, we're now touring South America.
The first week's shows were a whirlwind, so I haven't had time to even write a diary, let alone get the tour web page started. (I hope to have that going by tomorrow.)
Shows have been wonderful, with passionate audiences, and lots of new music to play. (And I've improved my Spanish a little -- enough to get through the show speaking it,
and also singing a couple of Crimson songs with Spanish lyrics!)
Today was the first free day, and I had a meeting with the folks putting together my upcoming book - an eBook version of the photo book Crimson Chronicles. I'm getting quite
excited about it - aside from showing the many photos from the King Crimson tours and recordings of the 80's, there are going to be a lot of fun features on the app, making
it, I think, pretty groundbreaking to see what an eBook can offer.
Release date is still a way off, but you'll certainly be hearing about it here on the site, when it approaches.
Speaking of approaching, the new Stick Men CD, titled OPEN is about ready to go on sale through the website. We've got some of the CD's out here on the road, and
are finishing getting things in place to offer them through the Papabear catalog, in just a few days.
Tomorrow we fly to Chile - great to be going back - and the concert there will be the following night.
More soon.
Okay, up a bit early today, and got the tour page going. Check it out.
March 18, Kingston
In looking
through my old tour stuff, I came across a lot of tour passes and itineraries - worth taking a look at!
Stick Men dates are coming in for shows in the U.S, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Panama, and Russia (how about that routing!)
Info is below on this page, as they're confirmed, and lots more coming.
LIVE SHOWS COMING UP:
with STICK MEN
April 24 Asbury Park, NJ / The Saint
April 25 Northampton, Mass / Iron Horse
April 26 Fairfield, CT / Fairfield Theater
April 27 Vienna, VA /
Jammin Java
April 28 Rochester, NY / Water Street
April 29 Woodstock, NY / Bearsville Theater
May 9 Tucuman, ARG / Teatro San Martin
May 10 Cordoba, ARG / Teatro Libertador
May 11 Rosario, ARG / Willie Dixon Blues Club
May 12 Beunos Aires, ARG / Teatro ND Ateneo
May 15 Santiago, CHILE / Teatro Nescafe
May 16 Mendoza, ARG / Teatro Plaza
May 17 Montevideo, UR / La Trastienda Club
May 19 Mar del Plata, ARG / Teatro Auditorium
May 22 Panama City, PANAMA / Isabella
with STICK MEN & ADRIAN BELEW POWER TRIO
May 25 Kaluga, RUSSIA / World of Guitar Festival
May 26 Moscow / TBA
May 28 St. Petersburg / TBA
with STICK MEN
June 3 Manchester, England / Academy
June 4 Birmingham / Academy
June 5 Cardiff/ IFOR Bach
June 6 Bristol/ Academy
June 7 Islington/ Academy
with THE CRIMSON PROJEKCT Opening for DREAM THEATER
June 19 Columbus, OH / LC Pavilion
June 21 Cleveland, OH / Jacobs Pavilion
June 22 Detroit / The Fillmore
June 23 Chicago / Chicago Theatre
June 25 Cincinnati, OH / Taft Theater
June 27 Minneapolis / State Theater
June 28 Kansas City, MO / Starlight Theater
July 1 San Francisco / Warfield Theatre
July 2 Los Angeles / Gibson Amphitheater
July 3 Anaheim, CA / The Grove
July 5 El Paso, TX / Abraham Chavez Theatre
July 6 San Antonio, TX / Majestic Theater
July 7 Austin, TX / ACL Live
July 9 Grand Prairie, TX / Verizon Theatre
July 12 Richmond, VA/ The National
July 13 Washington, DC/ Warner Theatre
July 14 Holmdel, NJ/ PNC Bank Arts Center
July 16 Boston, MA/ Bank of America Pavillion
July 18, 19 Huntington, NY/ Paramount Theater
July 21 Chester, PA / Harrah's Chester Downs
RECENT TOUR PAGES:
Here is a little list of this past year's new pages. (all tour pages are in the Archives linked
at page top - there are a lot more than these!)
U.S. & Canada: Two of a Perfect Trio Tour
Big Indian, NY State: Summer Music Camp
Russia: Stick Men August Shows
Europe: Stick Men April Tour
Argentina, Brazil: Stick Men March Tour
Europe: L'Image October Tour
New Zealand: G-TARanaki Festival
Europe: Stick Men July Tour
Japan: Stick Men June Tour
U.S: Stick Men May Tour
Europe: HoBoLeMa April Europe Tour
BOOKS I'M READING:
My reading habits have changed since I started using Kindle on the road (well, now an iPad) to read books. I can store a lot of good ones for future reading, and best of
all, I don't run out in the middle of a tour.
But it's also nudged me into reading many books simultaneously. Seems to work for me, since my interests are science,
history, and junk adventures -- sometimes (like on a 14 hour plane trip) I need a break from the science... or even from the sci-fi.
I'll rate my enjoyment of the books as one to five stars, regardless of whether I've finished them. And, if they're all rated high, it's because I no longer stick with
books I'm not liking, so they're not going to appear here.
The hope is, maybe I will turn some visitors onto books they might like. If you then dislike the book... well, sorry.
Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey ***
Nice future sci fi - Refreshingly surprising plot twists, even if the characters are a bit blockish. Reads like a movie, so there's a decent chance you could wait and
see it in a theater!
The Battle of Midway by Craig L. Symonds ***
I wanted to fill in the cracks, having become interested in that period of history. Well written, and gives you the whole picture.
How to Succeed in Evil by Patrick E. McLean ***
Funny, original.
The Hunger Games: (and Catching Fire, Mockingjay) by Suzanne Collins ***
Not bad... why is it that young adult books are sometimes the most fun reads?
And I had to check out the movie, of course, in case it was as good as the book. Not bad, but not great at all. Jiggly camera technique made me want to walk out.
Will books someday include jiggly camera elements? "She ran through the forest, clutching her bow, while she and the whole forest jiggled up and down, making you the
reader a bit nauseous. Then she stopped to rest, but everything continued to jiggle and twitch."
The Giver: by Lois Lowry ***
Nice - short.
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie ****
Might have been higher rated, but it's looooong... Glad my iPad doesn't tell me how many pages!
Kluge: the Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind by Gary Marcus ****
Great stuff about why our brains don't work better. And I thought it was just me!
Six Frigates: the Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy by Ian W. Toll *****
Loved every page.
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman ****
Fun.
How Pleasure Works: the New Science of Why We Like What We Like by Paul Bloom ****
Great stuff to know.
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman *****
I yellowed more highlites on this book than any I've read -- hope I get to look them over some day!
Woken Furies by Richard K. Morgan *****
No apologies, I love the Takeshi Kovacs series. Killer in the future, who doesn't mind getting killed, just has his mind unit transferred, and comes back
in a different body (which, ouch,
is uncomfortable!) When at a Ray Kurzweil lecture, I had to smile as he and the great Martine Rothblatt explained that exactly that option will await us all in the
future. Back up your mind before going to bed - why not!
Pacific crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific by Ian W. Toll ****
Guess I have to read everything he's written now.
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard ****
Whew, made me feel better about my road trip. I was thinking mine was gnarly!
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick Dewitt *****
Sometimes I have to reach for a title with a hyphen in it! This one was a great find.
Sandman Slim: A Novel by Richard Kadrey *****
Okay, I like killer dead people with rock n roll sensibility. And the whole series is great - dark, fun, funny - perfect for back of a band van.
The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell ***
Hooked on Wallender, like many others. But in this one, jeesh, at 60 he's going senile... well, it's a unique way to end a series.
I have to share that years back I was reading one of this series, while on my first trip to S. Africa. And the story took Wallender there too, from Sweden, as I was
reading it on the plane. Then, we were invited with Peter Gabriel to an event with Nelson Mandela, at a winery, and on the bus trip there I read about... the murderer heading to a
S. African winery to assissinate Mandela. It was spooky. (Wallender saved the day though.) (Our gala was peaceful too.)
Worth Dying For by Lee Child *****
Well, maybe this time I am just a little embarassed that I love all the Reacher series and await the new ones. Yeah, he's huge and unbeatable and
always knows what time it is... so why are people always messing with him?? But they're written so well, that you love the ride. (Years ago I got one before boarding
my flight ... realized half way through that I'd already read it. And still finished it, loving every minute.)
My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse *****
You guessed it, when I first got the device, I downloaded some inexpensive old classic stuff I'd already read, so as to have something on hand if
I run out of new releases. But, once again, re-reading Bertie and Jeeves is more fun than 9/10ths of the new books.
The Track of Sand (Inspector Montalbano) by Andrea Camilleri *****
Some writers, you just keep looking for their next release -- with the Montalbano series, they're already written, but only translated from Italian when
the publishers feel kindly to us.
Xenocide by Orsone Scott Card ****
I still have some to go in the Ender series, so, book me that New Zealand gig, I've got plenty to read on the plane!
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