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Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

Hey, Daron here. It’s been a long time since we did a liner notes post, what with me being on the road all summer and ctan doing her writing gigs. But I’ve been cherry picking stuff to share with you guys for all that time!

The first thing is I know I write a lot about touring but the “show must go on” mentality is something I don’t know if I get across. Some people would be stressed out by it. I find it calming to know there’s a singular goal for each day on the road and that everyone is pulling together behind that one thing. In my eyes it’s a beautiful thing.

Live music, and any kind of performance really, is an ephemeral art. You have to live in the moment but so many things have to happen to create that moment. Things in the past and things in the present.

Billy Idol’s on tour right now and he posted this photo (below) the other night of drum tech Trevor Matthias lying on the drum riser having to physically hold a drum pedal together during at 8-minute long rendition of “Mony, Mony,” which is the massive show-closing number he does at the end of his encore (according to his set lists–gotta love Setlist.com).