Well, it’s over, for now… and all we have to do is hang out here for a day, and then take various flights tomorrow, to return us to our respective homes!

We all met in the evening – just the VCR party, 11 of us – for a fabulous meal in a local restaurant. Now, THIS was the “best seafood in town”. Thank you, “Sabor Brasil” and all the staff. For a fraction of what we would have paid in the USA, or England, we had an amazing banquet. And then Fergie paid for all our food! What a guy! Larry made a short speech, and we all had a great Read the rest of this entry »

After a truly dreadful breakfast, I went to the gig early with John. This is the worst kit so far. The tom sizes are 10″, 12″ and then 18″! The difference in sizes was almost impossible to hide, even with judicious tuning! The rest of the kit is OK, although I would have liked a new snare head (my request was met with shaking heads).

The good news is that the monitor engineer, Alessandro, is really on the case. He pays attention, knows what to do, and is quick about it.

Not so good news is that we are going to have to play our final Read the rest of this entry »

Up and out at 5.15am. I ended up spending less than 6 hours in the Hotel Presidente! We are all feeling more than a little the worse for wear.. with two early morning starts and high altitude. None more so than David Osborn, who looked like he had not slept for several days! His organisational capabilities were severely hampered by this today, but we managed to make it through the misty streets of La Paz, to the airport, where I was amazed to see Military Police in pairs at 50 yard intervals along the road, brandishing rifles in the air. We found out later that the President of Bolivia was leaving on a trip, hence the Read the rest of this entry »

We left the hotel a little after 7.45am. It should have been 7am, but we had to wait for a couple of people who had apparently decided it was OK to leave later! As it happens, what with the traffic, and our equipment having to go through customs checks plus all of us having to get through passport control and get our departure taxes paid, we only just made the flight by the skin of our teeth. From takeoff, we went up and up, and never really seemed to come down, even when we landed! None of the usual Read the rest of this entry »

Strange to be traveling on this Halloween of all Halloweens: the USA is on high alert against potential Terrorism. We have just played a gig here in Houston, for the PGA: a big success. Among those who played last night, but who are NOT joining us on the trip South were John Cafferty, Mike Reno, and Pat Travers (sadly, Pat is flying to tour in Europe with his own band). So we are joined by “new boy” George Nastos, as additional guitarist. He comes highly recommended from Glenn and Joe-Lynn, which is certainly good enough for me! Also new to the origanisation, Fergie Frederickson will be along to sing Toto’s material (as he is Read the rest of this entry »

Well… I sit in my hotel room, ready to head off into the wide blue yonder, down to South America for 10 days or so. We played a show here last night, for the PGA dinner, which was a success (I think).

These Voices of Classic Rock gigs have been more than a little trying, travelling to all corners of the country in the current crisis, but life must go on, and a living must be earned. The end has justified the means, certainly in terms of playing some good Rock Music! Despite it all, we have managed to entertain people and get Read the rest of this entry »