OFF: Hey, out there!

[Henderson Keith]

Gruezi!

It's a lovely day here in Heidi-land (even the sheeps have bells), as I've
come to call it here in rural
Schweiz/Switzerland/Svizzera/Suisse/Confederatio Helvetica, whatever this
silly country calls itself.
They tell me it's terribly hot - highs of 22-23 C, which is a great thing to
hear since it's always over 30 C in Columbus, Ohio this time of year.  I've
never seen any place else that is so meticulously manicured as this area of
Switzerland (Aargau)...it's almost sickenly pleasant!  :)  I can't imagine
how anybody gets anything done here, they spend so much time pruning their
hedges and maintaining their gaudy flower gardens.  Well, anyway...

I'm sorry I haven't been able to contribute much to boc-l lately, but then
it seems as though you were all busy discussing who was suing whom, and why
all this nonsense anyway.  I didn't have time to read it let alone type in
my opinions, which I probably wouldn't have done anyway.  So anyway, I'm
done at Ohio State - cue the Elgar - (for now at least), and have a year
here to learn German and figure out whether I like mayonnaise on French
Fries (what's that all about?).

So...

I've got several shows to see here already marked down, including Deep
Purple (again) here only 20 miles away in the middle of absolutely
no-freaking-where, just a stone's throw south of the Rhein.  That's the
19th, opened by some band called Dr. Feelgood, who I assume is not a Motley
Crue cover band?

Then there's a prog festival in Solothurn (near Bern) on the 18th-19th of
October, with the old veterans Ertlif as headliners.

Then I have pencilled in a trip to London for Nektar, Uriah Heep, et al., on
Nov. 29-30, if they haven't announced a German/Europe tour by that point...I
don't want to miss out on seeing them at all.  I didn't make it to NJ for
the NEARFest gig, and of course I'm not there to catch the other Jersey
shows coming up either.

Liquid Visions just played a festival here somewhere in Schweiz, the poster
is still up here in the neighboring town, but alas I arrived too late to
catch that one.

Oh yeah, what happened with Kloster Cornberg this year?  I saw a one line
announcement that it was cancelled!  I assume Burg Herzberg went on as
planned?  Anybody see it?  ADII was on the bill I think?

Finally, I'm hoping (big time) for some more Amon Duul II dates to show up
on thinkprogressive.de, figuring that Muenchen must be in there somewhere.
That's just four hours by train from here....can't miss that.

Of course, there will be the WotW thing in the UK next spring (when is it
again?) and I will certainly plan to head that way then also.

Hope to see all you Euro's on the concert circuit for the upcoming year...am
I the only one here in the .ch domain?

Damn CDs are 30 CHF ($20) here....not that I've seen any stores worth
shopping in...I think there's one in Basel though.

Tchuss...Grakkl (FAA)

P.S. Scott, let me know if anything's up in Kobenhavn/Christiana...