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BRENT'S DIARY
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July 9th,
2005
Thanks for
checking out the diary. Once again things have been a
little different in the RM camp these past few weeks.
July 4th
weekend was a little different for the band. I had made the
decision earlier in the week not to play the gigs for the
weekend if my wife had not had our baby. With a due date
of June 30th, I didn't want to miss ANY part of the experience
by being an hour plus away from the hospital, so I chose to pass
on doing the gigs. Turns out, I probably could have done
them as the baby wasn't born until the morning of July 4th.
A baby girl named Hailey. 7lbs 7oz and already ruling our
house with two little fists and a very loud cry!
The band
said things were a little bit strange with my parts missing, but
my guess in nobody noticed much and they were just being polite.
Hopefully that will be the last event of the summer where
members of the band are missing!
July 8th
was the show I was most looking forward to this summer.
The opportunity to open for Whitesnake at Summerfest was in my
mind the coolest gig to date. Now, we've shared the stage
with some legendary performers, from Peter Frampton to The
Outfield, but it's never been a band who I owned every release
from and followed closely throughout their career. None of
the original members were present except for David Coverdale,
but the other musicians in the band were in other successfull
bands that most of us were fans of at one time or another.
A particular highlight for me was being approached by both
guitar players, Reb Beach formerly of Winger and later Dokken,
and Doug Aldrich formerly of Lion, Hurricane, Bad Moon Rising
and Dio. Both were very complimentary of our band and were
curious how Dave and I got our guitar sounds. Keyboardist
Timothy Drurry and Bassist Uriah Duffy were also very
complimentary to us and were very approachable guys. Tommy
Aldridge was polite, but kind of short in conversation and David
Coverdale didn't come off of his bus until show time. Disappointing,
yes. But, he is a rockstar and has an English accent so.......
THE SHOW
We decided
to mix up a set list that was leaning on the edgier stuff in our
sets to appease the ears of the Whitesnake crowd.
The
response was fantastic and the energy was there from the
start. Alot of the RM fans made their presence known and
judging by the volume of response given when Bobby asked how
many RM people were in attendance, there were more than we could
have anticipated. In my opinion, I think it was a solid
performance on our part and I think some of the people who
hadn't seen RM in a long time were surprised to hear some of the
stuff we played. If you were there, thank you! If you
weren't, you missed a really good time and a kickass Whitesnake
performance.
Thanks for
reading,
See ya
soon!
Brent
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