You guys don't miss a thing.
I've been a fan of Gary Husband's passionate playing (drums OR keys!) since we first played together back in the mid-80's. And we've made some crazy musical racket together on and off over the years.
I'm at a point where it takes a LOT to get me to leave home for something other than my main touring job. And I'm a bit old for these EU jazz runs which are often pretty grueling experiences. But this rare opportunity to play with my longtime pal feels like something I should jump into.
The way it seems to work for these types of tours is the band is formed first - and then the booking agent tries to "sell" it to a bunch of venues. There's still a big circuit of jazz clubs and festivals in the EU so we'll see what they can put together.
Sadly, attempting to tour this kind of music with a relatively unknown band in the US is nearly impossible. When I was working with Holdsworth in the 90's we reached a tipping point where the clubs could no longer pay enough to sustain the travel/hotels and food needed to get from town to town. And he was a known Artist. Now days there can only be short runs on the east coast, west coast or midwest and then we have to go home and save up enough money to do it again later.
Now I need to start practicing to see if I can keep up with these monsters! I love Gary's composing but much of it is in odd meters with unusual phrasing. It's gonna take me a minute to be comfortable with it.
In the end - it's nice to have this potentially fun tour to look forward to and the musical challenge to keep my brain working.
Cheers!
Jimmy J
Oh Rob, that's just a bit of ProTools D-Verb plugin on the bass for this little clip. Why not?
