Spain Tour II
I remembered parts of my dream from last night which is rare. I dreamed I was talking to Luke Temple who is a singer from Brooklyn that I like (but don’t know)and he was telling me that he was actually a scientist and that all of his lyrics related to some different anthropological discovery – like his lyric “looking glass people” referred to an ancient cave dweller called feranis humana that could see their own reflection everywhere they walked and then later on in that dream or maybe in another dream I remember trying to buy the movie rights to a painting for two million dollars and I’m pretty sure there was waterskiing involved in there somewhere. Well that’s all I remember. Someone told me that if I start writing down my dreams it will help me remember them better….
Right now I’m in a lobby of the hotel where we stayed last night in Oviedo. We played in a town nearby called Mieres. It was a strange gig for us. It was our first time in this area and it was our best paying show (it was sponsored by city hall) and it was also a free show to the public.
It was in a beautiful new theater that holds 600 people. We were all thinking that it was going to be great since it was free, but it turned out that only about 75 or so people came so the place looked pretty empty. Luckily, they kept the theater pretty dark while we played so we didn’t really notice that much.
The other weird thing about the show was that because it was sponsored by city hall, they told us that we couldn’t sell CD’s anywhere in the building. That’s never happened to me before. They were very strict about it. So after the show, I had to drag the suitcase of CD’s outside to sell them on the street! – “Hey, hey, piratos discos aqui! Muy barrato!” I think the people from the show got a kick out of that.
Later we found out that on Fridays people in that town down really go out until ten because they are just getting off of work at 8, which makes sense since most places close for siesta in the middle of the day, which explained the light turn out. Still, it was a good show for us. The sound was great as it was a new theater and we had our expert sound guy with us, Kato , who has been doing our sound here for years.
After the show we went to get dinner (which for us usually begins around midnight). We were all famished since we hadn’t eaten anything since that morning so we went to a nice restaurant in Oviedo. Oviedo is known for a couple of things: First, this town is in the northwestern party of the country and for some reason is influenced heavily by Celtic tradition. They actually have bagpipers all over the place here.
Secondly, they are know for their “Cidra” or cider which is made from apples and is really damn tasty. It’s slightly carbonated and the carbonation is activated when the bartenders and waiters pour the cider in the cup from about three feet up. They make a show of it of course and never actually look while they are pouring. The cider is really cheap though so I guess it doesn’t matter that some of it ends up on the floor….
Okay and here is just an aside: David has been telling me that some people eat horse in Spain but I refused to believe it...but then I came across this --- highly suspect.







