JEFF SCOTT SOTO Issues Final Tour Blog
December 31, 2007, 16 years ago
Singer JEFF SCOTT SOTO (TALISMAN, JOURNEY, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) has posted a final tour blog. An excerpt reads as follows:
"The UK dates were great - well it didn't start without drama anyway, the Glasgow show pulled out the week before we left the US, I guess they got scared that we'd pull out of the show based on the Talisman problems earlier in the year so they pulled out for us, not cool! We ended up getting a last minute replacement show in Nottingham which although was a small turn out (umm, NO time to advertise!), it also was one of those 'special' shows that only happens when the audience is intimate :) Its one of those things with my solo band, we never go through the motions at any shows, they're always treated as their own entities depending on the audience, turn out, venue, vibe, etc..."The first gig in Sheffield was great, I'd played the Corporation before with SOUL SIRKUS and to my delight returned with more folks in tow! The only problem that night was the lack of sleep I had before showtime. We'd flown over the day before and I was awake pretty much from the time I got up in the early morning LA time until we landed, early morning Manchester time. I passed out about 11am and sprung up at 7 pm, not bad, 8 hours, only problem is I was up from then till showtime the next night! Ain't jet-lag a bitch? By the time we hit the stage, I was up 26 hours, by the time I got to bed, it was 32 hours! Thank God we had the next day off!
Dudley was also a pleasant surprise with turnout and show, we were all a bit more rested and having Sheffield under our hats (it'd been a month since we played together and no rehearsal add jetlag, u never know what to expect!), the show was already a well oiled machine....well ok, a few spare nuts and bolts, but great fun as usual.
Nottingham was night 3 and London night 4. The Islington Academy is a great live venue and the night was electric from the 1st chord. Its always worrying playing London, as is NY and LA, most big city crowds don't react like smaller suburbs but that night was on fire, both band and crowd."
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