[New York Post] The Latin music star Prince Royce, gearing up for a national tour, recalled his childhood in the South Bronx.
Kimberly Schlapman, co-founder of Little Big Town, the band that recently had Musgraves open on the first leg of its 2013 tour, recalled during our recent interview the first time she heard Same Trailer Different Park.
"We did some really ill-advised long tours," recalls Williams when I speak to him on the phone the following day.
A bus tour of Europe leads to a discussion of the life of Thomas Cook, whose temperance outings grew into the world's first travel agency, while modern European rail-pass tours recall the Grand Tours of the eighteenth century, this ostensible goal of cultural enrichment providing a front for "unsupervised sex and boisterous partying".
Mary Ann Gordon, a hotel tour guide, recalls the remark of a German consul last year that it gave him "chills" to see "the place where they saved Europe".
"I was in LA a few years ago and for some reason we'd taken mushrooms, it must have been the end of our tour," he recalls.
Bourdain paid for his own book tour, and recalls sitting behind a table at a Barnes & Noble in Northridge, California, with a stack of his books, as people walked by, avoiding eye contact.
Yet Dylan garnered by far a larger audience with his music than Ginsberg did with his poems, and Ginsberg became such a devotee of Dylan's that, during the Rolling Thunder tour, Waldman recalls, members of the troupe "joked that Ginsberg was Dylan's most dedicated groupie".
Referring to the female horn section who joined Guns N' Roses for their "Use Your Illusion" tour, he recalls that there was "Lisa Maxwell... who played tenor sax; Anne, who played trumpet; and this bisexual New York City chick whose name I can't remember, who played baritone sax".
"I was almost 28 when I joined the PGA Tour," he recalled.
