W'sup y'all. About a week into our European tour. Haven't been able to get online in some of the places we've been, so I haven't been able to keep you updated. We were in Milan, Italy for the past couple of days. The gig went well, but the weather was TRAGIC....cold and pouring down rain. Almost had to rumble with a group of loud, rude Italians who were making fun of my girl Alison (the frontwoman and ONLY woman on this tour). Apparently big, beautiful afros are amusing to them (the group of Italians). They were being incredibly obnoxious behind Alison's back in the customs line (she was unaware of the whole thing). They didn't know I was with her and of course.....I had to regulate. When the Italians got through the line I rolled up on the cat that was bein' the biggest ass. Took off my sunglasses and walked right up in his face and gave him the illest mean-mug. He wasn't quite sure what to do. It was pretty funny actually, cuz I was just standing in his face lookin' at him crazy. After I made my point, I shouldered through him, bumping him out of the way and caught up with the rest of the band. When they the rest of the Italian cats got their luggage and walked past us trying to leave, we let them know we could take it wherever they wanted to, but they wanted none. Easy to make fun of a 5'1", 98 lb. woman, but it's a little different when she's with four big, grown men her are like her big brothers. They wanted NONE. Nothing crazy....not trying to get arrested or act ignorant. just let folks know we don't play that. We keep our girl safe on the road, believe that!! The funniest shit is, she wasn't even aware of what was going on the whole time!!
Anyway, in the U.K. now, Leeds to exact.....playing tonight and have tomorrow off. Monday we head off to Eastern Europe (Slovenia and Croatia), so if I can get an internet connection, I'll take some pictures for you guys and post them on the journal. Talk to you soon!!