Archive for September, 1997

Braves vs. Astros

1997 Elton John World Tour

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Jet lag is still bad, but I had a long swim this morning…. 60 lengths of the pool. It certainly helped to loosen me up a bit. But the energy is STILL not at full strength. Baseball: first day of the playoffs! And I have tickets for the Braves v.

Back at the studio

1997 Elton John World Tour

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Sorting the kit in the morning.Then in the afternoon, I was required for tom fills, cymbal crashes and hihat overdubs on this track they’re recording. Yippee! Something to get my teeth into…. actually, it took about an hour all told, and left me feeling somewhat redundant. But such is the

New kit

1997 Elton John World Tour

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Today was hard… I still can’t sleep for more than 2 hours at a stretch. I went down to the studio where Davey & Guy are recording a track. Pete has set up my new kit in a spare room, and we messed around, tweaking bits, adjusting positions etc.. It

Yaaawn! Jet lag – I hate it!

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I just cannot sleep for more than 2-3 hours at a stretch. But there comes a time when, no matter how tired you are, you just have to get up & try to pull yourself together. Did some shopping in the local mall, and had a long swim, to free

Travel New York to Atlanta

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It’s amazing, really. It takes almost as long to get out of Manhattan, down the freeway to La Guardia, check in, go through security etc… as the flight itself! And the flight wasn’t exactly a bed of roses: firstly, we missed a flying goose by 20 feet on take-off (too

Elton John 1997 week 1

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Conan O’Brien show

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Conan O’Brien show. The jet lag has really got to me this time. And yet I was so fit prior to coming out here. It must be the residue of the ‘flu bug I picked up last week. The pick up is at 2pm today, so I was able to get some breakfast at the Star Diner opposite the hotel (why pay $35 for breakfast when you can pay $9?). By the time we arrived at the Rockefeller Center, home of NBC, New York, I was starting to feel vaguely human. Compared to the easy, laid-back method of operating in

Fly to New York

1997 Elton John World Tour

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I cannot believe how this jet lag has affected me this time round. I woke up feeling dazed and disoriented. The car picked me up at 10am, and we swung by to pick up John Jorgenson (guitar) on the way to the airport. At LAX, we met up with the

Day off

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Bob Birch (bass)and John Mahon (perc/bv’s) picked me up at 8am and took me for a bike ride in the Burbank Hills. And a really serious ride it was, too. 4 miles uphill, to an elevation of 1500ft, and back down. It took us 1 hour 15 minutes to get

The Tonight Show

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Jay Leno. 11am pick up, for camera runs etc… I met up with the rest of the band at the studio. All still jet lagged from a week ago! The studio was almost as cold as LWT, but not quite. I doubled my dose of vitamins this morning, knowing how