Late last year I was offered a head position as " Chief Mule"(truck driver/roadie) for a National Dance competition setting up their P.A. (Professional Audio Equipment and a Video Network and also shooting the entire 2-3 day shows and then Editing all ordered dances for DVD) which meant decent (ok) money, living and traveling around the country for free that is with a 40 ft, trailor with a $100,000 or so worth of equipment... So needless to say a lot of responsibility, I'm not gonna go into detail as far as what went on while traveling with strangers cross country, I'll save that for another time hehe...
So the regular season is done I finally flew back home after 2 months of not seeing my family it almost felt like I was being released from prison or some type of labor camp( the conditions weren't bad just really homesick), I told my boss before I left I was driving back up to NY for our very last show of the season from july 5th- 10th because I had to much stuff I accumulated for the past 5 months to bring back on a plane, and the real reason was I wasn't getting stuck up there for that long again :) So me driving up there left me no choice but to leave before July 4th which had me a lil bugged but we're over it.
Two days before I leave I was clearing off old recording sessions from my hard drive one of them being an Acoustic country/Southern rock project with an old best friend of mine through high school, we were pretty close all the way up till he moved to Ohio to marry some bitch almost 5 yrs ago now ( I can say that because they're not together any more and she really was one lol). We still managed to keep in touch, right after my friend married he caught a rare illness that for a couple of years or more no Dr. could diagnose it wasn't till last year that he was diagnosed with Vertigo which is no walk in the park he was bed ridden for a year or more...me being the broke musician I am, could never afford to visit him but we still spoke on the phone from time to time...
Knowing he had just moved to N.C. and his illness was almost cured, I thought I'd give him a call and see if he was still writing songs and playing guitar. No surprise he didn't have just a hand full of songs but 200!! So I find out what I just told you and offered my services on the house to record a album for him, he was so pumped so I did what any dedicated Engineer/best friend would do, packed half my gear and hit the road
So the show in N.C. was a success, I made it back in one piece, took a day to get the majority of the video editing done, and hit the road asap. Keep in mind my wife and kids want me home and I kind of left out my plans in N.C. till I left NY oops....
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