This past week has definitely been productive and memorable. Monday morning I went with Lawrence, my manager, over to BMI where I signed an exclusive songwriter agreement deal with BMI. Following that, I met up with Anthony Smith and he and I were inspired to write a really cool song. Although it is unfinished, it has potential to be a great song. 3 o'clock rolled around all too fast that day and Shelley, Mark and myself caught a flight to Detroit where we would find the next few days to be very busy and keep us on our feet. That night in Detroit, we went to dinner with Tim Roberts from WYCD and his wife Lori. We had an enjoyable three-hour visit with them. Tim had the great idea of ordering Peking Duck and it was freakin' awesome! I don't think I've ever had anything like it before. They brought it out on this tray, it was like a whole duck and they cut it up in front of us and then they rolled it up in this special bread and yeah! That's pretty much all I can say about it, It was good.
Not that you guys care, but I have seriously gotten into egg and rice noodles to the point where I can't get enough. If my mom was here... she would be saying to me, "Adam, your going to turn into a gigantic noodle someday if you don't stop eating so much pasta" - ha-ha. Growing up, I was the type of kid that was fussy and would not eat much. When it came to eating pasta, I would lather it up in butter, salt and pepper and be in heaven. I wish I had known about rice noodles and egg noodles then, because they have instantly become my favorite.
Early the next morning, we headed out to do a segment on Fox 2 News in Detroit. Every time I've done T.V. appearances, they've been under a time crunch and everything is so precise and timed down to the last minute. So, Mark and I sound checked within our 2 minutes that we were given during commercial breaks and then played "What It Takes" live on air. Sometimes it gets a little scary singing a song with such range in the morning, but surprisingly enough under those circumstances both of us did well. Following the television appearance, we made several radio stops between Detroit, Flint and Lansing all of which went very well. WYCD was our first stop in Detroit and that was for the Dr. Don, Rachel & Grunwald show… They were great people and it was great fun. Very entertaining!
In Flint, we visited PD April Rose and MD Keith Allen at WFBE "The Bee" and were overtaken with their generosity in providing Chinese food for lunch. If there ever comes a point where my parents wanna trade me, I know that I will have a home with Steph from the station. I think she wanted to adopt me while I was there. Hahaha… Just kidding mom and dad, I love you. Then we made our way down the road to Lansing from Flint, and made a visit with Chris Tyler from WITL, at the Wittle White House. That's really what they call it. I've been there before and Chris has always made us feel welcome. He put us on air and we played a couple songs as well. We headed back to Detroit after that, and wolfed down some fantastic Sushi along with the best edamame you've ever tasted! I was really in the mood to use some fine vocabulary in this journal, but unfortunately I only made it through to the 6th grade and then hit the road running after that. Ha! Just kidding. Anyhow, the next day rolled around and we made a stop in at The Frank Beckmann show. This show has been around for like 75 years and I would have to say that it was one of the coolest interviewers I've ever had. The building that it took place in was historic in itself and I just enjoyed looking at the architecture inside the building. I look forward to seeing Frank again sometime soon.
From there, we rushed to the airport not knowing if we would make our flight because we were starting to push it time wise, but we did and all was good. We caught our flight to Kansas City where we met up with the band.
What a great day it was yesterday in Kansas City. We made our 1st appearance with our friends from The WOLF as part of my "What It Takes 2009" Soles 4 Souls club tour. It is certainly something you need to take part in to know the extent of how caring the charity is. It's amazing that a pair of shoes can make such a significant difference in someone's life. Just imagine you being the one living out on the street no food, same clothes, and a beat up pair of shoes that barely keep your bare feet from touching the ground. Or maybe you'd been through some rough times, and just needed a fresh start. Could you imagine what a brand new pair of shoes with thick soles on them could do to someone like that? Pretty much life changing I'd say, and that's their motto…or OUR motto now…"Changing the World, One pair of shoes at a time." There was a guy there yesterday that said that that was the first time he could remember a pair of shoes actually fitting him properly. I know personally if I had to walk around in shoes that didn't fit me, I'd be miserable and in pain. Please don't think guys for one minute that I'm accusing any of you for not being grateful and appreciative, but this is our chance as a community and as a country to make a noticeable difference. Last night's show in Kansas City at the "Infused Bar" revolved completely around Soles 4 Souls and trying to get people involved in helping out. As we did last night, and as we'll do at future shows coming up, we're going to be handing out numbered flip flops to all single people who come out to shows, and maybe with that numbered flip flop those single people can meet their "sole-mate" as well. It may sound cheesy, but strange things have happened and it's fun.
Shelley went up on stage last night at the gig and informed the audience a little more about Soles 4 Souls and also mentioned to everyone to put their name in a drawing to win a trip to Las Vegas, and then she followed that by bringing us up on stage with some DJ's from The WOLF. The winner from this show was Lynn Fredlund. We played a 90-minute set and just had a blast. Unfortunately after the show, we didn't have a ton of time because we had 800 miles ahead of us to get to our next location, so we ended up loading up the bus and then pretty much immediately heading out for Detroit, MI. Our bus driver Dave amazed us all by driving through the night and getting us here safely with absolutely no complaining about it what so ever. We've got a show here in Detroit tonight at "Coyote Joes" and again this is another show based around Soles 4 Souls. Hope to see some of you here tonight at the show. Take care of yourselves and God Bless!
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