Sically Italy

We catch our plane to Sicaly. We meet our ride to the hotel. A small welcome party is set up for us with snacks and drinks. The hotel is walkinbg distance to the venue. The stage is set up in the town square in front of an acient church. (Lots of churchs here). I walk over with Monolo to check out the drums. We make an arangement with the opening act and head back to the hotel. Monolo insists i taste a local food dish. I had tried to get this in the Bologna airport but he told me to wait till we get to sisally cause that is where the come from. It was killer. It was like a croket made of corn bread with beef, peas, poataos and grayinside. Thesee folks can eat, i repaet. We have a little rest (stress little) then a wonderful dinner in the hotel. We walk over to the gig. This entire town square is packed with people. I was told 3500 by the promoter. We work our way to the backstage tent. The opening act finishes up and we launch. WOW> these people really respond to us right off the bat. The energy grows as we do our set. As we end the main show the crowd was frenzied. I lost track but we did 3-5 encore songs. The crowd was going insane. It was very energizing especially since we had had very little sleep in the last few days. People were trying to climb onto the stage and the security people had their hands full. When we finally ended it was nearly impossible to get off the stage as the backstage area security had fallen apart. SJK and Bnois were signing autographs and having photos as they struggled to get to the tent. Paul and i were getting mobbed to a lesser degree. I signed a ton of stuff and had a bunch of photos take. The girl in the photo insisted on several photos with me so i insisted on a photo of her. After this photo her boyfriend insisted Paul pose with her on their Vespa scooter. This was by far the best gig in a string of really great gigs. I love theses people. Sleep.....not just yet.