2/8/15 day 19: Herrenberg, DE

It was a pretty poor breakfast showing this morning. Coffee, Brötchen, some jam and sliced cheese in plastic.... Like craft singles. Singles?! Really? We are in German for Christ sake... Embarrassing!

Short but beautiful drive to Herrenberg; lots of small towns with a steeple in the middle, bridges over deep valleys. Arrived in Herrenberg at like 11:30. Drove right to the club to see if we could find Johannes the owners son/booking agent and sure enough he was in the restaurant checking the newspaper for word of our show; just a listing this time, no pic, scheißer. Good dude, that Johannes. We all walked over to La Dolce Vita for a coffee and catch up.

After coffee we walked around a bit and the whole town was shut down for the afternoon. Guess what was open? Yeah, one last Döner. I opted for the Falafel Yufka which was delicious. We all agreed that we should open a Döner joint in Burlington... It would crush! Maybe next life time. I kind of like touring Europe playing music.

We walked around a bit but it was bitter cold. Peter and I headed back to the hotel and sat in the lobby with a Pilsner. I then caught a 12 minute nap and then walked down a couple blocks to the venue; Mauerwerk. It has a really nice stage and great sound system. Robin our sound engineer is super efficient and had our settings saved from last year so sound check lasted all of 15 minutes. Little tweaks here and there and done.

You r gonna get a bath back in Phx, you dirty little monkey.

"Peter, look cool."

Had a delicious chicken curry dinner in the restaurant (still kicking myself I didn't get the Schnitzel though, what the hell was I thinking?) and warmed up in the green room with their local brew Mauerzwerk until show time at 8. Very civilized baby. You can tell we are at the end of the tour because we didn't completely loot the green room. Usually most everything comes with us; fruit, drinks, candy bars, small pieces of furniture. We left a tray, A TRAY, of candy bars... That never happens.

Green Room reflections, baby.

One last cascading selfie with Johannes.

Great last show. 84 beautiful melted German faces. (Our new friends from Pfullingen showed up too! Shout out to Virginie and Ralf! Ralf made us each these hand made cards with his art on them. Very inspiring.) Felt really good about the performance. We recorded it too, so should be able to share at some point soon. Sounded clean and well rehearsed, like the end of the tour should. I love that we we were tweaking up until the last show. Let's do a verse vamp after the bridge in Love Song. Let's tease Stir it Up AFTER the third verse of What I'm Looking For. Let's get funky on Leading Me Home. Still working. Always improving. Dropped a couple hot jams for an encore, a "Bid You," done. 

Street scene: Mauerwerk, Herrenberg, DE. Can you spot the tour poster?

Hair is getting more and more angular and I dig it. Very rock and roll.

After the set, we chilled next door at the restaurant. Mauerwerk is half great venue and half great local restaurant. We met a couple at the bar that saw us at Dexheim last October and made the 2+ hr drive to see us tonight. They bought a couple rounds of schnapps and we chatted with Johannes and his friend Aline. It was a good hang but we said our goodbyes around 12 and made the short walk back in the freezing cold to the hotel.

We had our traditional tour end debrief in Jeffs hotel room with the traditional portion of scotch whiskey. I went with the Oban 12 year; smooth not too smokey. We split up the remaining loot and the booty (most importantly the Swiss chocolate from our new friends Salome and Joel from Zurich) and retreated to our own rooms to pack. Didn't fully power down until 3am. 6:50AM wake up call coming in hot... Another great tour in the books. So grateful to Peter and Jeff for making beautiful sounds with me, Tommy (and the whole Seitzinger family)  for booking the tour, all the amazing promoters that asked us to play, and the amazing new friends and fans. Honored, humbled, grateful.