Our show tonight started @ 2am, and now it's 5am, and I'm hoping for 5 hours of sleep. We had a stellar performance tonight, and the young music fans of Nagoya were really lit up. Thanks to club RADIX! Tomorrow, we have a very "big and important" show. We are performing at the Liquid Room in Tokyo. This venue is off the hook! It's a dope ass live music venue that is ultra stylin'. On stage, we will have 4 video cameras recording us, a live badass graphix slideshow by Hiraku Suzuki, and we're recording the show into Protools as well. It's funny how these types of things really should have no bearing on completely improvisational music, but in fact, it's very likely that if we allow ourselves to be distracted by so much extraneous stuff, the performance will suffer! Of course, we won't allow that to happen, so tomorrow will be a day of calm focus, and clean execution. We are having a ball out here, peace -s

So, we've arrived in Japan without any hitches. It's great to be back out here, and after tonights' much needed sleep, we are going to rock the muthafuckin' house tomorrow night in Chiba. Here's the tour schedule: 9/16 - Studio Pirates, Chiba 9/17 - Radix, Nagoya at night & Nagoya Apple Store (7pm - 9pm) 9/18 - Liquid Room, Tokyo 9/19 - Ginza Apple Store (7pm - 9pm) 9/22 - Mojo West, Kyoto 9/23 - Jaz Room Nuthings, Osaka 9/29 - Shibuya FM live broadcast 10/2 - Asagiri Jam, Asagiri Kogen (2pm - 3pm) So, it looks to be an exciting couple of weeks! I will keep the blog updates as often as I can, and feel free to drop me a comment or two! peace -s

This is the very first Blog entry. We are currently trying to get our VISA situation settled ASAP, because our flight leaves next Wednesday for Tokyo! More later, -s