A few more pics

Here's a few more pictures from England. We just got back and it was awesome...I'm really tired right now though so I'll write some more later




buckingham palace


westminster abbey




Big Ben




Abbey Road Studio


big car vs little car


Temple Bar Area in Dublin, Ireland

Here's a couple pictures

I only have a couple minutes, but I thought i'd throw a couple pictures up really quick from our trip to England so far.



a sweet cathedral


john thatcher of delirious?


a dyson hand dryer in a restroom...the best invention ever!!!!!


another sweet cathedral

England

I'm getting packed. The plane leaves at about 3:30 tomorrow and we're flying to England to play a show with Delirious. I'm really excited about this because they have been one of my favorite bands in Christian music for as long as I've listened to it. It really doesn't get much better than "King of Fools" for me. I really don't know if, in general, music gets better. It's actually that great.

After the show, Pete, his brother, and I are staying to take in the sights for a couple of days. We're planning to hit up Manchester, London, and Dublin, Ireland. There's an off chance we'll get to take a tour of Abbey Road Studio (where the Beatles recorded my favorite album of theirs...Abbey Road) I guess there is a live web feed of people walking across the road like they did on the album cover, so maybe next Tuesday or Wednesday you'll catch us doing it.

Oh also, the Raconteurs are playing in London while we'll be there, so maybe I'll post another 100 pictures of them and go on a rant about how good they are...or maybe i'll just chill out a bit on that.

Anyway, I'm really excited about the trip...i've never been there...and hopefully I'll have some good pictures to post when I'm done. Take care and I'll catch you later.

dan

"Have you seen the red haired girl with the doberman?"

Amy and I have been dogsitting this Doberman named Hideki. He's literally the size of a deer and has the strength of a horse. He has the intuition of a hedgehog mixed with the zeal of a kitten...no, a rhinoceros. Basically he's awesome and I don't want to give him back. We live in a little condominium though, so he's a little too big to stay for more than a week.

I feel bad kinda, because the people who live in our condos are very nice and a few of them are elderly. They have little dogs and like to walk them around the sidewalks to get exercise. The problem is, whenever they come near ours, this beast of a voice that's dipped in microphone-amplification sauce to make it deeper and louder comes bellowing through the doorway and scares them half to death. They skip the sidewalk in front of our door and go out in the driveway so he won't bark. It's too bad though because he's the nicest dog in the world and just wants to say hello.

Oh well, it'll only be for a week.

Has anybody figured out how to turn the on the lights in the sanctus real website yet?

GMA Week

It's GMA (gospel music association) week here in Nashville. It's three days where all the bands and radio stations and managers and magazines and record labels and anyone else I'm forgetting meet at the Renaissance Hotel to hang out. Everyone I know rags on it b/c it's kind of a shmooze-fest...which it definitely is...but it's really not bad. You get to see all your friends in bands you hardly see and sometimes people take you out to free dinners. Not to mention the t-shirts and magazines you get for free.

Earlier today, Pete and I saw the singer of Smalltown Poets (an absolutely great band from a few years ago) and we wanted really badly to go introduce ourselves. But like starstruck kids, we got too nervous, tripped on our left feet (well, pete's right b/c he's left handed), and missed our chance as he walked away. How foolish!

Getting my hair cut on wednesday. Got any suggestions?


dan

The Raconteurs

So I just got back from watching one of the best shows of my life. I'd love to try and describe it, but it's not worth it. It was a once in a lifetime, perfect experience and I have no idea how to do it justice.

Jack White is one of my favorite people in music. If you aren't familiar with The Raconteurs, his other band is The White Stripes. Or, if you aren't familiar his bands, he's currently on the cover of Rolling Stone with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones.

Ya, how amazing is that? This guy ten feet in front of me hangs out with The Rolling Stones.

Now, I don't spout off about many things. I try to stick with the Golden Rule - Live and Let Live...try not to be too opinionated on matters of taste. Rock and Roll, however, is a little different. It can get me going sometimes. I love it, and when I see guys like this perform it...I tend to feel like a schmuck for calling myself a musician in a rock band. But honestly, that's ok. We need more bands like this and I need to feel like a schmuck more often...I'd actually love to feel like a schmuck if it meant having more bands like this to listen to.

It occurred to me recently that there aren't many up-and-coming rock legends around. Once the old guys are gone, there isn't much to take their place. It's all Amy Winehouse and Lil Wayne. Really, there are only two guys from the classic rock years who are still making, in my opinion, GREAT music. Tom Petty and Paul McCartney. All the other classic rock bands, if they're still around to play, are playing just that, their classics (which is absolutely sweet by the way. I'd pay a good bit of money if I had it to see Led Zeppelin perform). I guess my point is that when they're done, there isn't much to fill the gap in the future.

So to see a band that is better suited alongside The Who or Crosby, Stills, and Nash instead of the next American Idol winner, is...i don't know. If nothing else, it's encouraging. It's encouraging and inspiring. It makes me not want to be a schmuck anymore.

Alright enough of that garbage. I had an awesome time at the show. It blew my mind like I knew it would and it was a great night.

dan

Things...but very slowly

I found this on my friend, Josh's, blog. It's a pretty good time