GEDDY LEE My Effin' Life Tour Book

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• Page 6THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FUN TO INCLUDE A few anecdotes drawn from the original 1,200 page draft (yes, you read that right) of My Effin' Life that I submitted to the pub- lisher, but which obviously did not make the book (otherwise I would have had to name it Every Effin' Detail)... A few times in my life, I've attempted to keep a diary. My first effort was more a bookkeeping exercise than anything-a dry record of gigs with columns listing city, venue, attendance and what we got paid each night. Later on, my scribblings became more authentically diary-like, noting my moods and day-to-day experiences, in three sep- arate categories, no less: physical, intellectual and emotional. I rated our gigs out of five stars, talked about missing my girlfriend (and later wife) Nancy, about contract negotiations, about writing songs on the road, about interactions with other bands, etc., etc.. I even wrote down what drugs I had taken, including how effin' high I was from night to night. It was a travelogue of sorts too, and ultimately a more sophisti- cated record than just the collection of hotel room keys I amassed on our very first tour in '74, when even Evansville, Indiana had seemed exotic to me and I thought I'd probably never return. I was doing my best to cope with the wide range of hopes, triumphs and disappoint- ments I was experiencing, and only half a mind to keeping a record for posterity. Which turned out rather useful, wouldn't you say?
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• DON KIRSHNER'SROCK CONCERT CHRIS FRITZ & CO URIAH HEEP
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• Page 14coming out of the UK, and being a bilingual country with a large French-speaking population we also felt a certain French influence; in addition to that we had instant access to U.S. culture and thus, as music fans, were on the concert circuit for British, European and American bands. So, on the eve of the tour we smugly figured we had the U.S.A. sussed out. A naïve and foolish notion. We soon learned that although our countries looked a lot alike, we were very different indeed-not least, in this case, because America was born of a revolution, while Canada's independence was a product of a negotiated evolution. That was evident to us in the behaviour of American audiences, which were more confident, louder, brasher, ready to party hearty; you sensed that this was a people who had the willingness to fight for what they believed in. Canadians are so much more reserved in that regard-you could say that in their quiet and thoughtful way, they sit somewhere between the clichés of the loud and ugly Americans and chilly British reserve.
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