Pretty solid spread this morning; brötchen, sliced meats, cheeses, yogurts, muesli, fresh fruit, juice, coffee. We put a real hurtin' on the buffet and rallied for rehearsal in Peter's room (he somehow managed to get the penthouse suite) at 10.
Rehearsal until 12. We ran down the old stuff and polished up some newer cuts including On My Own which will be appearing on the new tSR album. It's sounding good! Peter is using a ukulele bass which is sounding pretty cool.
Hopped the U6 from Wilhelm Geiger Platz to Schloßplatz and walked around. Peter and I opted for Thai food while Jeff took down a falafel, which he counted as one of the best so far.
Headed back to Feuerbach around 3 and we decided to pop into a random hotel w wifi for a minute. Wifi is an elusive lover these days. On some level it's nice to unplug, but you know, sometimes u wanna drop some pics to Instagram... Anyway, sorry if I haven't emailed or texted u back... It's not because I'm ignoring u.
Crushed a short little 35 min nap before rallying the two blocks to the venue at 5. So, the whole concept of "Besenwirtschaft" (the name of the club is Besenwirtschaft Krug after Jürgen Krug the owner) has an old tradition. From what I pieced together from folks throughout the night (some with thick Schwäbisch accents like Jürgen) around the time of the wine harvest, the city would grant temporary liquor licenses (4 months) to people who made their own wine. The idea was that these folks would clean out their living rooms and create little neighborhood wine bars offering their homemade wines and local foods and host cultural evenings with music and theater. Super cool tradition. During the time of the liquor license, the hosts would hang a broom or "Besen" at the front of the house to signify the place was cleaned and ready for business.
Our new friend Jürgen has been doing this for 36 years and up until 3 years ago, he was making his own wine as well. These are professional house concerts with homemade food and wine. It was awesome. 70 folks, young and old packed onto benches and ate and drank and laughed and clapped and just plain got down. It was rad.
There are also always two performances, one music, one theater, and you alternate sets. The theater portion of last night was this man and woman team who performed this comedic love story with thick regional Schwäbisch accents. I caught about 60% of what they said. It's like hearing a comedy act from someone from the deep South, you'd get the gist, but you wouldn't catch all the words. The crowd was rolling though. Our set went great I thought. Great first outing and the crowd dug it.
Our hosts Karin and Jürgen. In every other picture Jürgen is doing bunny ears and Karin kept trying to take a picture of the woman taking a picture; a couple of real jokers...
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