MEZZAGO 12/18
On our way to finding our hotel, we ended up being guided by the GPS to a one lane road in the middle of farm fields, which came to an abrupt end at an incomplete overpass. Ditches on both sides of the road...17 foot long van needing to turn around...hmmm. Eventually we found our hotel...total movie set...weird industrial park adjacent to what appeared to be abandoned tract housing. OK...go to mappy and see if the 'town' Trezzano Rosa' appear (well, you'll find it but you have to see this place to believe it...every band I know could film a different, fucked up video there!)...with the late afternoon sky, the 'On the Beach' level desolation...and then a four star hotel stuck in the midst of it all..the surreal factor was high, very high. Well, the internet was down. Fucking Swisscom! The gal behind the desk let me use her computer tho!
Mezzago is a little village about 30km from Milan...it has a great club/cinema/cafe/alternative book/gift/music store called Bloom; Nirvana, Hole, Tad, Screaming Trees all played there in the past (actually Nirvana played there twice--in 1989 and 1991). Our show tonight--what the hell? Inane/insane stage ranting from me; broken strings on every song; all the bass equipment blew up at one point, and during soundcheck, the mic stands fell off the drum riser! Excellent, excellent show.
I stayed at the club for awhile, had a drink with our promoter Roberta and the club's booker, and came back to the hotel at about 2, with the dwindling remnants of a Twin Peaks' worthy 'salsa party'...I saw, bless her heart, a 400 pound woman in the skimpiest black dress imaginable, which truly earned my respect. As I went to sleep they were dragging something metal and very unstable up and down the hall. At 3?
love
KS
Zurich SWITZERLAND
