The tour started off with a few days of rehearsals in San Francisco. My flight arrived in the early afternoon and I had a chance to grab a nap at the hotel, thanks to Steve moving the rehearsal start time to accommodate some “rest and nourishment.” The hotel was kind of retro-modern-kitschy-weird, and not at all like the cookie-cutter Days Inns, Ramadas, etc that I’m used to. Cool décor and comfy digs, but my only complaint was the phone-booth sized elevator…yikes.
Rehearsals went fairly well. The band got reacquainted with one another, going over some old tunes and learning some new ones. The usual laid-back semi-inefficient approach as previous rehearsals, but I’m learning there’s not much to be done about that!
The main story of note from these sessions was rehearsing one of Steve’s tunes called “While We Wait.” Prior to starting the tune, we sent Charlie out for some Chinese food. The Chinese food run ended up taking so ridiculously long that we ended up jokingly renaming the tune “While We Wait For Chinese Food.” It appeared on a few future setlists under the joke moniker.
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