Monday, September 21, 2009

so...

deets on the shows? good parts? bad parts? did you go to cheers?

i think i've found some focus.
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  1. ToriSeptember 21, 2009 at 10:05 AM

    The shows were good. I needed them a lot to balance the weekend. I think Meg’s show was a very rare treat for me in the fact I don’t think I can remember the last time I heard Steve play an entire show unplugged. The acoustics in Meg’s living room were great, and it was just so chill and mellow. He picked a very parental appropriate playlist, and wouldn’t say naughty parts, or take lurid requests. He did a few too many instrumental songs for my taste, but it was a really amazing night for me in a lot of ways. (I have something else I wrote you back in my email reply about the show too.) It meant a lot to me to be there, and to have this to occupy my brain before going to San Diego. But it was also the night that I realized how very much I love the music that he plays, and how much BETTER he is getting and I told him how amazed I am by where he is going right now. He talked about Joel a lot. I did go to Cheers and at break I asked him what I had forgotten to the night before when I noticed he’s adding just a little something extra to the beginning of Everything About You and I love it. I love the music so much. His new songs are just much more layered and complicated and I just get entranced with how he dances his fingers on the strings. I sat on the couch and I tried to imagine the old Steve, the Steve that is 80, and how much more amazing and rambling his stories will be then. (He had a very “and then…and then…and then….” weekend of storytelling.) I’ve been falling in love with music a lot lately, it’s very weird how sentimental I am being about intangible things like the beauty of California, or the way Pandora’s John Hiatt station just makes all my days better lately.

    I wasn’t going to go to Cheers and posted that on Facebook and received about a dozen text messages from Devroy demanding I go…but it was likely the scariest drive I’ve ever done in my life. I was thankfully one of the only cars going my direction both ways to Ramona from Rancho Bernardo where I was staying. I went like 25mph up and down the hill I was so scared, and had my brights on and was super tense girl. It was just not fun. The whole way there I just kept saying, if I die, then I really love these people and it’s okay, it’s worth it. It was Lisa’s birthday, but she was tired so she went home at break. It was a very long day for me too (I will write more about that elsewhere) but I really needed to hear Steve play California, so I asked him at break and told him I never ask him for anything, but I really needed this, and had to pinch myself from not crying and he said of course, and Troy got him to play it right away after break so I could leave, and he did and I had to try and not cry on the way back to the hotel. That song just means different things to me than I think he has any intention in it meaning, but musicians can’t control those things from happening.

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