I'm actually way too excited to sleep, can't believe we are going to be in India tomorrow night! It's been 23 years since I was there last. Makes me feel old just realizing that. It was the year The Neptunes started. I was playing bass for The Diddy Wah Hoodaddys when we had the first Neptunest band meeting at Andy Macs place in Servetust St.
Rick Mason & I both lived there later for years until they demolished that whole side of the St to widen West Coast Highway. At that time I was sharing with Ian Gill down in North Freo. Ian also came to live at the Servetus St House which shows what a small little world it was then. Still is I suppose. I was over at Ricks today picking up a camera for the trip & dropping off a quite lovely little Goldentone Speaker cab.
I flew to India last time on my own & met up with Pedro LeGrice. Jeff Warren met us over there later. Pedro was in Goa for a while but we met up in Kashmir staying on a houseboat for a few weeks before heading south to Lucknow & then up into Nepal. We did Varanasi on the way back to Delhi and home. Jeff stayed on and saw some more of the North.
This time we are starting in Goa and will probably continue South along the West Coast right to Tamil Nadi before heading North. We need to reach Kathmandu by Christmas as we have reservations in a hotel there. Everything else in between is up for grabs!
I must take the time to write recount some road stories from last time in between logging our current travels. Some of the things that happened to me are far more unlikely than anything I could make up.
Writing about Servetus St makes me also want to recount some of the crazy things that happened around that house & that era particularly the early days of the Neptunes when it seemed anything might happen.
Anyway I guess I've proved I can type on my iPhone well enough that I'll be able to post from Trains or anywhere I can't set my laptop up.
What an amazing world. On my last trip we slcommunicated via letters & telegrams, sent our film off to be processed in a lab & carried US $100 bills in our money belts. Now I have a plastic card I can withdraw rupees or whatever from holes in the wall & a phone the size of a packet of cigs I can use to take photos & post whatever I write & photograph & will be distributed through the ether to appear on a website somewhere in America & also magically post itself on facebook. I'm curious to see how the autopost to FB comes out. Hopefully it's just a summary with a link to the full post. I would try taking a phone pic to test that but me in my PJs sitting on my bed is not something the world needs to share in.
Au Revoir peeps. Back in time for NAB Cup. Freo 2011. Get on.
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