This morning began with a stop at a lasting memory of my first U.K. tour, the restaurant known as Little Thief. Actually, it’s called Little Chef, but back in ’03 it was dubbed ‘the thief’ because of its high prices. Well it seems the thief has cleaned up its act, and the club sandwich...
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Tags: Clark W. Griswold, Dylan at Isle of Wight, Family, Lester, Little Chef, Little Thief, Spinal Tap, Stonehenge, Stones at Hyde Park, Taco Bell binge, The Nice, the sights, the Small Faces, Traffic
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With BBC 4 Radio as my soundtrack, I am in the front seat of Lester with Ben at my right, driving to Holyhead, Wales. A few days ago we left Europe’s mainland and took the Eurotunnel, flying underneath the English Channel. The hotels in the mainland can be quite interesting. Kyle discovered a weird...
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Tags: BBC 4, Brighton Centre, Eurotunnel, Jimmy, Lester, Monster Munch, paul weller, Punker Bunker, Quadrophenia, Reggae Reggae Chicken Pasty, The Jam, the sights
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My heart is racing as we just got on the Eurotunnel with seconds to spare. We almost missed our train taking us from France into the U.K., but alas, we made it. I thought I’d use this adrenaline rush to write. After our four German gigs we got in Lester and began our journey...
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Tags: English Channel, Eurotunnel, France, Germany, Italy, kyle gass, Lester, Marlboro, Milan, Montell Jordan, skip, Swiss Alps, Switzerland, the sights
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We woke up to the sound of a million Germans screaming, or at least it sounded like it. But no, it was 7:07am, and the sweet sounds of the fire alarm were heard blasting through the hotel building. We were in Munich, and it is the morning of the first show of the tour....
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Tags: Fire, Göttingen, Jimmy Morrissey, Lester, Munich, Shades, the big lebowski, the dude, the sights, WWII
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The European tour began for me with a departure from Detroit to Heathrow Airport in London. For the others, it began earlier with them driving to New York City and then flying to Heathrow. A lot of thoughts were moving around my head — it’s been seven years since The Sights played over here...
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Tags: Baby Jessica, Baeron, Dumped by Delta, Eurotunnel, Guided by Voices, Heathrow, Lester, Munich, Pissoir, Skippy is a sausage king, Tenacious D., the sights, viber, Zwiebelmettwurst
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