2,000 MILES TO TEA & THEATRE
Memorable moments in Boston and NYC! Not in any such order or continuity...-On the road again! Drove from South Florida again.Mike,Rob and myself.We leave at 9:30am on Sept. 13th and arrive into NYC (after a 7 hourstop over in Maryland) at around 2:30pm on Sept. 14th. Back in theNew York groove.We meet up with Joyce & Meg at the Union Square Inn Hotel in the East Village, which is close to where Joe's Pub is.More on the Joe's Pub show under the NYC section below.
BOSTON-
The day after Joe's Pub show - Joyce,Meg,Oz,& Eddie Ryan join the three of us and ride to Boston.Joyce checks us into the Hilton Hotel. Scott Pilam arrives from Logan Airport and joins us.A night off hanging out in beautiful Boston - mainly at the Quincy Market area - the day before the show. Met some great fans.- We meet the amazing Ryan brothers on this off night. The "other" Ed and John from SLC,Utah.Some of the most amazing stories ever heard!
Swimming with Roger! That one was the best. Forrest Who Gump moments.We hung out at CHEERS and in front of the Black Rose bar just having a great time in a happening college town on a weekend night and the weather was perfect. Charles from Denver showed up! I didn't expect tos ee you that night - so what a surprise. And Charles brought his daughter for her first Who show.How great is that!
Show day arrives on September 16th. Preshow at the Harps bar across from the arena. We arrived there about 5pm. I couldn't believe how many recognizeable faces showed up in Boston. Was happy to see Jeff House show up after there was some initial doubt he would. Glad you could make it to the show.
-Mike and Rob talking live on a popular Boston rock radio station(100.7 WZLX) before the Boston show at Harps was one of the best moments of the trip! A station DJ (the popular Chuck Nolan) was there with his crew promoting the radion station & the show with a great preshow party. The bar was packed from the front to the back.The DJ came up to Mike,Rob,and I with a microphone. Mike explains how we drove from Miami to Boston & NYC and how we've done this many times & also explains how he was told by his boss that he cannot miss work for the next 6 months when he gets back. The DJ laughed. Rob injected some funny comments, the funniest being something like "We are so committed, that we all should be committed". Meaning to a mental health facility for our insanity of driving so far to see THE WHO. Insanity is fun, if that's the way's it's done!
Hours later at a concession stand inside the arena, I overhear these parents who were with their kids talking about how they drove from D.C. I proceeded to tell them how we drove from Miami. They said to me with excitement in their voices: "Was that you on the radio telling that driving story from Miami"?! . And I pointed at Mike and said "yes,there he is"! Along with Rob, it was their 2 minutes of Boston radio fame! The couple bursted out laughing andhigh fiving Mike & I! lol.What a small Who world! It's a small who world after all!
- At the Boston show (4th row on Pino's side), Pino was playing forScott Pilam,Ozzie,Mike and I after he spotted all four of us cheering him on, bowing to him,etc. As Ozzie said earlier in a post - Pino turned right at us - and played for just a us. He did so for more than a few moments! It was a hilight for sure. Pino had a huge smile on his face and appeared so very appreciative of ourattention.Likewise!-The energy of both the band and the audience - together - was unbelievable in Boston.I could not stop looking around at the whole audience reaction from the top levels on down to the floor area.
LISTENING TO YOU....I GET EXCITEMENT AT YOUR FEET!!
-The new songs are the hilight for me and alot of us.The mini operaand "Black Widow Eyes" are my favorites.I didn't learn what "Tea & Theatre" was about until literally aftert he final msg show was over.I look foward to listening and feelingthat song at the next show (Sunrise) knowing the lyrics a little better. I still need to sit down and listen to this one and absorb the words. Now starting to realize that this new WHO CD/ALBUM will end up being a classic..for the music and the emotional content.They are turning out being perfect for the stage, at least to my ears and several others I have spoken to about them.
-Pete's massive spit shower spray in Boston, as he crouched down to machine gun down some of you who were sitting over there. No one who was over there could confirm to me that they had received some "Petestains". I believe he showered the back of a security dude . Gunned down in a hail of fog nozzled venomous drool!!Hahaaha!! :) That punk attitude at age 61..it remains. That is what we love about Pete. The passion,compassion,the anger,the love, the energy...it's all still there! Brian Lynch will get the Fog nozzle reference.
After the show we ended up at CHEERS again (since Harps became a dance club after
9pm) with much of the same crowd, including another raucous and fun night with
the Ryan brothers and their stories. Back at the hotel ----Mike was having a
mildly intoxicated related problem of not being able to slide the hotel key into
the door slot successfully (at around 3am). Ozzie then held the door shut to
frustrate Mike even more(we hear Mike screaming "the light on the door knob is
turning green...wtf!?"
- I think he figured it out by then - but why won't the door open?).I
video'd the whole funny incident! Oz let's go of the door and Mike falls against
& thru the door Three Stooges style and tumbles over the bed once he made it
into the room! lol!! Ofcourse, Mike embellished the prop fall but it was all
good and fun!- Someone called Guest Services asking if they could speak
toMr.Hilton. "We need more towels,food,and the services of Miss ParisHilton
please"? Rob, did you make that call? What happens in Hilton, stays in
Hilton.
-Oz's elderly woman impression when Rob was on the phone with his Mom in
the hotel room was funny as heck. Rob's Mom kept asking Rob whothe lady in the
room was that she was hearing in the background. Rob comes back with "Mom,that's
my friend Ozzie". It seemed to tie in a little with Mike's funny impression of
Leon from the movie "Dog Day Afternoon". Another classic moment of the boys
being boys.Or was itthe Leon's being the Leon's?But how sweet was this.We sang
happy birthday to Rob's Mom!- I can't quit you!!! Funniest quote of the whole
trip - just in the sense of the context of how it was being said and why! Ozzie
and then Rob, both going on and on with this. Basically a message fo rmaster
Pete! We all may have thought about trying but Pete can't quit us either. Get
the joke? Get the message?! :)
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