| Gettysburg, PA / October 1999 |
| It's the second night of Ed's first tour with Ani Difranco. It's a little 3-date tryout that leads to longer tours with Ani and eventually culminates in Ed being signed to Righteous Babe Records, Ani's label. (By the way, for those of you scoring at home, I've been involved in music as either a guitarist or roadie since 1968 and have never met anyone in the music business nicer than Ani Difranco.) We're sitting in Ed's dressing room after his opening set. Ed's toweling off sweat and I'm making a peanut butter sandwich for dinner before I head out to the merch table and I suddenly feel very unglamorous and un-rock & roll. "Somewhere right this very minute Oasis is snorting cocaine off groupies' stomachs and I'm making a peanut butter sandwich." I say to Ed, "I'm not sure this is how the big-time rock & roll tour is supposed to go." "No, I like this." Ed replies, "We're not cool." I'm enormously heartened, I go back to my sandwich. All material © 2004 by Ric Cacchione, all rights reserved. |