So yeah... The Big Star gig was fantastic, although I only got to see the backs of Alex, Jody, Ken and Jon because just as I was about to take a nap after I went to the fantastic Picasso museum, Ken was on the phone asking me to help out at the venue. Needless to say I got my ass there before my head! Ken handed me over the setlist. I had a look at it and it just looked like a box of bonbons, I mean, come on...! Afterwards we did the aftergig thing; chatting in a hotelroom, sipping on some champagne, telling stories, having a laugh... Later on we hit the Malaga barscene and I got introduced to Dani Llamas, a Spanish singer songwriter whose album also got enhanced by Ken's magic. He sent me some of his mixes and I was really impressed by them. Phew, what a night. Next morning I flew back to good old Amsterdam which was in full Queensday roar. I had to play at night, but went out on the streets during daytime. That was years ago, and nothing's changed; the whole town smelling like a giant beersoaked hamburger, looking completely orange. I hooked up with Bart van Poppel and Liesbeth a.k.a. Solex. We had a real nice day and Liesbeth played me excerpts from her upcoming album which is basically a duo album with Jon Spencer. Very cool!
Wanda and Jazz were still in Turkey, but that was ok, I had De Dijk gigs all over and had to mix my album of course. I decided to do it at home.
So I had a couple of weeks gigging and mixing. Next thing up was a phonecall from Solomon Burke who also played The Hague Jazz Festival on the same stage as we did. Solomon joined us for Enough Is Enough, a song I penned with him and we hung out a little discussing plans for an album together, which we'll actually continue to do on friday. We're thinking of translating some Dijk tunes in English and let Solomon sing in addition to the tunes we've already got and will write soon. Interesting!
Tomorrow I've gotta host-DJ a radio show and do some work for the legendary Van Dyke Parks... Oh, and a gig of course.
Your sunday's child...
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