The Long Awaited Post Tour "State of the Leg Address" Blog

Hey howdy hey everyone!! How the hell are ya!?(oh yeah I'm typing...)I have not been tweeting since I got home... I needed some me time2do what I had2do visa vie my health.... No I didn't go2rehab!....
But in a sense,rehabing my leg is what I've been up2.... So I guess that "sense" I was talking about was real in a medical kinda way... ;) I'll explain...
As many of U may or may not know, we've been operating under the assumption all year that the acute hip pain I was having meant that a replacement was neccesary. We didn't want2blow the year's tour,(me especially...)We had such fun,that I feel I dare say on the band&crew's behalf that the extra pain&trouble that dealing with it caused all of us was still worth it. The plan was surgery in november.
It took untill september for the results of the year long consensus of doctors,second opinions,MRIs&that other annoying x-ray where U are entombed.... I think probes where envolved,or mabey that's from a repressed dream of summer camp.... I mean...alien kidnapping.... ;)
Anyway... The results conclusively proved that my hip bone is still connected2my thigh bone as it were... The steel&bone are as strong as ever&what the problem indeed was, was explained to me by a crack asortment of quite excellent medical professionals kind of eversince.... But having had some real relief at the hands of the rehab doc,I feel I can finally explain2all of U...at least layman speak anyway... This is why I've waited so long2blog... The answer seemed always just around the corner so I'd wait a little longer,adjusting my plans as I went... By september's end when we started2know the tour was as is normal in month5,like vietnam.....we all just had our heads down,determined2make it home... At long last my bretheren&sistern,I can report intelligently on my hip which started hurting the day my beloved Steelers won the superbowl!...here's what's up:
17years ago when I had my bike wreck,I released what is called a zous muscle which supports the right hip&spine,particularly the "L5"vertebrate,where the2meet The lack of this muscle sends the system a message of trauma,causing other muscles2try doing the same job as the ripped one... Once I was walking back in'94,I stopped rehabing it... I was young,I needed the money... ;) Well at the ripe old age of42,these support muscles have fatigued in the atrophy of several remaing muscles shut down&respondant to theL5.... U may have surmised by now that rehabing these muscles was my perscribed remedy... It is amazing,when the rehab doc shows U how2rescue muscles U haven't used in a while...&I'm ever more familiar with my male counterpart2the kagel muscle...it's handy!
But rehab alone would not help me if I did not execute the larger pain in the ass of my plan....
All year I'd wiredly bluster about getting in some shape.... I truly believe that when U lie on a couch&watch tv,&that physically hurts,it's time2do something. My philosophy of life is in a word: "ice cream"! One must be healthy enough not2die of eating2much ice cream,but live long enough2eventually eat all of it!!! ;)
With that spirit in mind,I have spent the last2weeks in the care of a trainer whose been hurting me&whipping my ass severely...1hour a day,5days a week. I promise I am working hard&everything aches in that almost yummy way. It does feel good2get healthy&that's what I'm after,feeling better.... The worst part is this 10day cleanse diet I'm right in the middle of,....it's actually not2bad,I do eat alot of blueberries&meat,... But I miss pizza!!&cereal&booze... I mean2also work on cigarettes as the rumor is the band smokers are thinking of all giving up the devil teets next tour. But that's a tough one.... Rome wasn't built in a day....but I have alot of ice cream left2eat&there's alot about this getting old shit I'm looking foward2....
One example is this solo record I'm undertaking in Jan/Feb with my friend Jono Manson from the Postman movie,&Aaron Beavers from Sherman. The idea is to work with different song writers,something I'd like2try possibly with BT.... Chris Barron from the Spin Doctors wrote one with us already about a popular "Sanford&Son" beverage....both are yummy!
As for BT, we will start up in april&hit every fest who'll have us. We'll also tour our butts off the rest of2010,trying2hit everywhere! This is because we're gonna be a little scarce in2011as we have much2prepare for U for2012... That's the year we turn25 years old as a band&we plan something old&new in celebration.... The H.O.R.D.E. tour turns20 years old that year&there will be more on both as they devolop... But suffice it2say 2012 is gonna be a big year for Blues Traveler!! After that the world is supposed2end anyway...which means no more ice cream....so I will in a sense have eaten all of it....my logic is immutable!.... ;)
But2010 is gonna party like it's1999 turned up to 11!!! I'll blogg soon from Santa Fe where I'm making this record with my progress&now that I've blogged,I can tweet again because we're at last caught up.... We had alot of fun this year despite how hard it got at times....& we did raise some$$$$4the troops next year will be quite fun.... I miss U already! Have Great Holidays!!!!

All kinds of pizza options available in Wyoming.

Bobby Sheehan: 10 Years Since

Hey everybody! Seems like the only time I blog anymore is on big anniverseries&such...(thank U twitter)
Today is a big one. Bob Sheehan passed on this day10years ago. I can't believe so much time has passed. Then I think of all that we as a band have gone through since that tragic day... After the out&out pain came a communal sense of a family in crisis. A period of managers exausted from trying2keep us going,quitting to start over auditions&searches for the two new players,the financial restructure. All the while a desperate redress of my health looming....&at last rehearsals.
Once we were a band again,the new leg of this musical journey began. We could feel our own definition forming beneath our feet as we would rebuild our musical direction,with only one basic premise; It had2ring true. We had2mean it. Without that,what we'd built would have no power.
As we started to grow which is the objective of a good band,our personalities were becoming essential again2our own home baked formula.
I'm talking about Tad&Ben of course,but all of us had2find our place anew. I am so proud of what has unfolded&continues2unfold.
Moreover I think Bobby would be. I think his spirit was alive&well in the decisions we've made this last decade... It was afterall Bobby who by action, thought or deed,made us feel like we could do anything.... We still feel that way&in our continuing this madcapped journey we honor our musical co-founder...an artist with no parallel as he was2unique4comparison. And of course one of the biggest hearts I've known. A heart that challenged U with the fire of possibility... Such hearts beat in us for our fallen brother... So toast Brooklyn Bob Sheehan2nite,&I promise U will not be toasting alone... Our glasses are raised&waiting...

 

 

Leon Leonwood Bean knows how to hang

Jacksonville Oregon

Good times here in Jacksonville Oregon.

Micheal Jackson died!? Holy shit!!!

I remember a long long time ago back before I was playing music or singing....(professionally anyway),I would listen2music in my older sister's room. We listened2John Denver,Crosbey Stills Nash&Young, endless Beatle records&being catholic in the 70's Godspell.... ;) But I remember hearing Rockin Robin by the Jackson5.... I remember being amazed that a little kid could sing like that. I figured he was my age though I was off by 8years(old record)&it sounded like an audio trick,like a better chipmonk record or something... What I didn't know,nor anyone4that matter was that if he didn't sing so well,he was gonna get his ass kicked,or at least let his whole family down....lotta pressure for a5year old. All I thought was,"make him sing that again!" In this way I feel we were all defacto accomplices to the most public case of child abuse in history. If he'd sang terribly, Mabey someone might've noticed. Talent does that....makes people blind or distracted or
accepting of things that are wrong. One could say that such is the nature of show business&at least he was having fun. I'm sure he was at some points. But when this is happening so young,how can one decide what fun is,or have any perspective on anything. It seems to me that on some level,we all kind of knew this as we'd watch him grow up singing his ass off...As he got weirder, we'd say to ourselves in secret,"if I had all that money I'd be weird2" like he was being weird4us. Then as he got really weird,it seemed in the mass opinion(at least2my recollection) that we were saying,"oh that makes sense, I always knew he wasn't right. No one can sing that well without some terrible consequence" which made us feel better about our selves in a way. It did seem in fact that his amazing talent was the thing that kept him lonely&in retrospect,I think it looks as though he couldn't satisfy the man in the mirror&there is (at least4me) a cautionary tale here. No
matter how well U sing or dance,U can't escape Ur self&that's why we seek approval from others or numb up with substance,or starve our selves....or isolate. I want2say I knew he was a good man,but again as is true of all I'm stating in this here blog,that is conjecture. Truth is we didn't know&never will know this man, only shades of him as reflected in his talent. We just loved2watch him sing&dance.... It's a very American story... His inspiration is without question,but regardless of what he did,said or thought in the depths of his soul,his innocence was not consequence free. No one's is. That is why it sucks2grow up&that is also why we have2.... Life has consequence no matter how beautifull the dream. I'm talking tough,but I dream2as do U.... But we fail at staying innocent&grow from that faliure. I'm someone who's managed2stay more a child than most. But in this area,MJ had reached a success at peter panishness that will never be surpassed...not
even by the pan himself...&it is sad&at the same time an amazing achievement of the human will.... I never thought I'd care so much,but a bonafide legend has passed,&it is this legend that we're facinated with. And it's the legend.... That will grow&never die no matter how many jokes are told or details whispered. That's a legend with power.... Prayers to his family of course....&perhaps one more for us2 grow old&2 successfully love our selves over our legend....

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Niagara Falls

Loving the falls.