tucson – dec 31
NEW YEAR’S EVE 2005 / 2006
The danes are in town. Giant Sand lives again.
I agreed to do a new year’s eve show because they were coming in to town anyway then. Calexico were doing their show the night before. The danes in giant sand like to hang with the germans in calexico.
The stage was outside. There were snow machines splurting out flakes too. it was a good set I think. Marie frank started off the evening doing songs from her new record, which is named after the song “leather”. The danes backed her. Then we took the stage dressed in our dusseldorf suits. Thøger in his snake skin. Me in my new black 3-d lizard skin. It finally made sense to have this suit. This is the suit I got off the train for on the way to that mysterious show in hamburg. I think it was worth it after all.
The evening was more fun then work. I was signaled wrong near midnight though, and brought up the bag piper who was supposed to play out the last few minutes before the clock struck 12. Instead he played almost 15 minutes of solo bag pipes. This was an interesting execution of excruciation. It almost made sense, seemingly symbolizing the crinkles of the year that had come to pass, and our endurance surviving it as a species. Plus, it made the band sound incredibly better after all that pipe work. So… happy new year.