The last 2 weeks

So I promised a real update and since I’m sitting here burning cd’s, I’ll write.

Providence was great.

I flew into Jersey Friday afternoon. I worked the night before so I only got about 2 hours sleep before I had to get on the plane. My plane landed and I called Paula. She was leaving her office Christmas party and was stuck in major, shitty traffic. I told her it was no big deal, I would just sit at the bar and get a drink and some lunch. Four beers later she arrives to pick me up. I got in the car asking if we could stop for something to drink and she motioned to a bottle sitting between the seats. It was labeled as Ice Tea so I took a swig. It was Rum & Coke…our favorite drink. I just laughed as we got on the freeway towards Providence.

We stopped in New York to get our supply of alcohol. We bought a lot since we needed enough for 15 or so people. Two large bottles of Vodka, 3 bottles of Rum, bottle of Jaeger, OJ, Coke, Cranberry juice, Pineapple juice and Bloody Mary mix.

By the time we got to Providence we had refilled the Ice Tes bottle 3 times. We checked into our hotel and called Stacy cuz I was selling a pair of tickets to her. We wandered over to her hotel and smoked a bowl. She called John to tell them we had gotten there and to come back to the hotel and get us since we had no idea where the bar was. This began the drama that I knew was going to happen.

When John showed up at the hotel, he had Vanessa with him. We start to head over to the bar but two blocks from it they start running ahead yelling to us that it’s just up ahead. So we (Paula, Stacy and I) are still walking and chatting a bit. We get to the bar, no one bothers to introduce us to anyone. We order a drink and I see Jeff. He looks at me, I wave, he turns his head. I knew right then I would not be speaking to him again.

We sit down at a table next to the one Van, John and a couple other people were at. A guy comes up to introduce himself. Brian is the most boring person I have ever met. He droned on for 5 minutes about nothing. He walked away for something and Paula leaned over to tell me she was not impressed with any of them so far, except Stacy. I agreed.

After a little while, I headed to the ladies room. I’m in there…it’s like a regular bathroom, just one person at a time…and Van is banging on the door. One thing I haven’t mentioned yet…Van is a cokehead. So, I hear her sniffling and all I can think is she will not be doing a line of coke in here with me. I throw the door open and she is standing there…crying. She running her mouth about John and Kim hanging all over each other even though they know it bothers her. John is gay but has slept with Vanessa before, or some crap like that. I just walked away. When I got back to the table Paula tells me she started crying at the table and that she had tried to get Van to go outside instead of bothering me. Whatever.

So the bartender calls last call. Paula and I are messed up and we ask the bartender to call a cab since we have no idea where we are. As the rest of them are walking outside I see Kim (who had not said anything to us all night) waving at me and I wave back. Paula looks at me and says “What the hell are you doing?” I tell her Kim waved so I waved back. She tells me that Kim did that jokingly because before she waved she said “Who the fuck are those two girls and what the fuck are they staring at?” If I would have heard that part I would not have waved (obviously) and probably would have gone after her to ask what her problem was.

Needless to say I do not like that whole crowd…except Stacy who was very cool.

Saturday everyone started to arrive. By 2:30 we were all together and having lunch. Nikkie and Chris, Anna and Chris, Greg, Bobby, Jeannine, Letitia, Chad and his girlfriend (it was my first time meeting her and I can’t remember her name), Rob and his brother, Tim and Christina, Paula and I. I think the staff at the pizza place was scared. We were a little too loud and ordered a lot of food.

I told Nikkie and Anna what had happened the night before since Nikkie was the one that wanted to meet them. They both agreed it might get ugly if both groups were to get together.

We headed back to my room after lunch to get the booze and take it back to Greg’s room. When we got there, we had a message on our voicemail. It was Stacy, asking if we wanted to get together with her before the show. When I called back I could tell she was not having a good time so I asked everyone if it was ok to invite her to our party and told her where to go. When she showed up, she hugged me saying thank you over and over again. She said “I feel like I was dropped on the Days of Our Lives set and I’m 5 years behind.” She was not enjoying her time with them.

Bobby got a little too drunk…shouldn’t have let him have so much Jaeger…and never made it to the show which was a damn shame.

Dave and Tim:
Too Much *
Typical Situation *
Where Are You Going *
Don’t Drink the Water (This Land is Your Land outro) *
Lie In Our Graves *
Dancing Nancies *

Dave and Friends:
Dodo
Up and Away –>
Stay or Leave
Trouble
Baby
Solsbury Hill #
Spanish Moon ^%
Some Devil $
Oh
Gravedigger ->
Grey Blue Eyes
Will It Go Round In Circles **
So Damn Lucky
American Tune +
Up On Cripple Creek @%
Save Me
Encore
Too High
Tell Me Something Good ~
2nd Encore
Hey Bulldog &

* Dave and Tim
# Peter Gabriel cover
^ Little Feat cover
% Trey on lead vocals
$ Dave Solo
+ Paul Simon cover
@ The Band cover
~ Stevie Wonder cover
& Beatles cover
** Billy Preston cover

We got 2 encores!!!!!!!! That is never done. EVER. The amount of goodness in that show was amazing.

We left the next day…after being up until 4 am drinking and partying. We hit a huge snowstorm and my flight got cancelled because of it.

And Chicago will have to be another entry. I seem to have a lot to share 🙂