Posted
9:49 PM
by sport
PARIS. Here's me with the enchanting and mysterious Eloïse Decazes, indispensable guide and beloved hostess... we are standing behind Notre Dame cathedral, on our way to the absinthe shop.
The steps of infinite torture, up which I dragged my gasping old self countless times, leading to the home flat of Eloïse and Sing Sing (otherwise known as the musical duo Arlt), where days began at 9 am and seldom ended before 5 am.
Now, a few views of a few heavenly nights with a few of my bosom chums.
Wonderful Mariette, Sing Sing, Eloïse, and Wladimir.
Have you met Miss Jones? Oui!
Greg Gilg, Ann Guillaume, mon frere Sing Sing, Alban Dereyer
et
Francisco "Flop" Lopez, Mike "Sport" Murphy, and Vincent (who sang and played melodica with us and I never got his last name, so I'm sorry... write me, mon ami, so I can fix this entry) .
My superb bandmates Sidi Ali (Guillaume Villadier) and Silvain Vanot, with the man who started it all for me in France, writer Richard Robert.
Backstage: guest performer, Martha Redivivus of Norway's Thinguma*jigsaw, who played magical Saw, and the inspired Alban Dereyer, who leaped onstage with Vincent to sing with us.
A lovely bunch of mugs: Thinguma*jigsaw's other half, banjoist Seth Horatio Buncombe, Luke Temple's partner, multi instrumentalist Tyler Wood, moi, et the annoying and impossibly French Sing Sing, whom I could not get rid of for the entire fucking trip.
These pics indicate an enormous amount of drinking and smoking, which I only agreed to tolerate in the spirit of international brotherhood.
And another at Notre Dame, with me as Quasimodo. "I used to be on Kill Rock Stars, and all I got was this lousy hoodie" ...nah.
More of these to come, especially once all the others send me the pics
they took.
Missing in all these is my beloved pal Baptiste, who decided to play some football the day of the show and broke his leg!
However, we did visit Gainsbourg's house together and share a great after-hours night of cognac, indoor smokes (ssh!) and singalong.
I miss Paris, and all these friends, but it's great to be home. And we all recover now... slowly.