Fleamail March 7, 2007

well i have not written a fleamail in a long time

i dont know why i just haven't

just not in the groove of it guess

we played tonight in des moines, iowa

i had a lot of fun....i injured my back on a trampoline about a week ago

and the last few shows have been painful for me

i did a backflip and just had too much momentum and just landed on my spine on a metal bar than ran along the circumference

ouch

so anyways, tonight it started feeling better and i felt more free on stage

a released kind of feeling so i felt free and good

anthony is battling a cold and it was hard for him

it is difficult to get better when you have to play all the time and travel around and put out a lot of energy

but if you look up the world trooper in the dictionary you will see a picture of anthony kiedis

 

things have been good for us overall lately

certainly we have been touring for this stadium arcadium record for a year now

and it is a lot

but the opportunity to connect with so many people over this last year has been fucking cool

 

 

yesterday it was so snowy when we drove from milwaukee to desmoines that we nearly didnt make it

but we did

 

i saw the greatest dvd today

a concert of art blakey and the jazz messengers from 1958

lee morgan on trumpet

benny golson on saxaphone

jymie merritt on bass

and boby timmons on piano

man it is so amazing to me

i think that is my favorite era of jazz and my favorite era and type of music ever  that i know of

i mean there is so much music that makes me feel good in different ways

but that art blakey and the jazz mesengers in 1958 with lee morgan i think that it is my favorite

nothing can make me feel better i think if was stuck on a deserted island and could one dvd that would be it

especially if i had my trumpet too.........

and so amazed and so happy and so inspired

with spirit inspired with spirit inspired with spirit

 

i love you