I'm on a spoken word tour currently across the USA. And just now I wrote this about tonight's show....
It's hardcore. And this means that you turn it on and give it everything you've got, whether you're playing or speaking to ten people or a thousand. And so often the nights with ten people yield some of the strongest connections and lasting friendships in the long run. People want connection. They want meaning. That's why they are here. And they can smell from a mile away the bullshit of someone just going through the motions.
If, and it's the huge if, regardless of the number of people in the room, you've played it like it was the last show of your life, then the night is going to resonate no matter what.
Being on tour with bands that just get it feels like we're a collective force of passion and intensity which is unbreakable. Tonight was Franklin Indiana, just outside of Indianapolis. Maybe fifteen people at the show. In a huge empty space. And it was perfect. This was a night that's echoing for me all the way into the morning now.
It's hardcore. And when it's right, whether ten people or a thousand, it feels like the world is ours. It shakes us down to our bones.
(Great Reversals onstage here killing it, followed by my spoken word set, followed by my dear friends Steven Muczynski, Mike Moynihan, and their immense band Hollow Earth to close out the night)
