Down the road you go...

I'm wide eyed from Jet Lag.. i won't sleep tonight seeing as though i'm due to leave hear in about 2 hours to make my way to Amsterdam. It was one of those surreal evenings where you stop and take a deep breathe and thank God one more time for allowing you to live and experience such things. A packed house full of Germans.. one American on a very very small stage made for a night to remember.
It was the first time i used one of those wireless headset microphone things. Worked out nice. There the people stood, ready to hear what was going to come out of this one man band with his taped up fingers and battle scared guitar. Song after song... after song... this crazy dude with an all to noticeable Austrian accent when he speaks German, was on it. The people hurt my ears they were cheering so loud. The complete opposite from the night before when you could have heard a pin drop. Yeah, that was a tough crowd that night. They just stared at me like i was an alien.. no, actually, and alien would have gotten more of a reaction. i was a wall. Though i did persevere and put on a good show with a 10 minute long story about this Mexican girl (who turned out not to be a girl after all) and her boyfriend drug dealer who wanted to kick my ass. Don't ask. But it made the sour Germans laugh and that's more than i could have asked for. I also sold some merch and that surprised the hell out of me. Anyways.. back to tonight..
There was a support beam in the middle of the room with a high table built around it and some stools. I had been eying it all night.. and on my last song i made my move. By this time i had the Germans trust so i didn't have to keep playing fast, up-tempo, 8th, 16th and 32nd noted tunes. That when i hit them with "Down the road you go". I started on the stage with my guitar played it through a few times.. noticed people catching on.. then jumped of the stage handed my guitar to some guy, who very nicely returned it to me later, and made my way the climb the beam. It was truly something to see.. this whole crowd of Germans singing and waving their hands " don't you let your heart grow black... down the road you go..". this must have gone on for almost 10 minutes. Unreal. It got louder and louder.. and ultimately the true message i set out to send across Europe, and the world for that matter, is being received. In a few hours i go down the road to Amsterdam.. und jetzt gehts weiter!

- Savage