These are the true tales of the rail and the wing, seen from the vantage point of train stations, dressing rooms, airports and the not-so-glamorous back of a cab. Buckle up in the jump seat for this caffeine-fueled 15-day tour of Italy, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, France, England and Ireland. Don’t forget your passport.
April 24: Coping In Copenhagen
More juice, more ginger. I wake up thinking about it. An avocado sandwich. Copenhagen is crystal clear but bone-cracking cold. I walk past the Tivoli, an amusement park and “Pleasure Garden” that I’ve often meant to explore but will again balk at the price of admission. My Danish kroner are better spent on coffee and curry, I figure.
Still thinking about Prince. The more I read about him, the more I long to know. Tonight, I’ll play an encore that features “The Cross” from Prince’s 1987 album Sign O’ The Times. The redemptive gospel tone of the lyrics and the thunderous build of the music was something that I recall drawing on with songs like Grant Lee Buffalo’s “Grace.” Sometimes we don’t even realize how much we take from an artist like Prince. He dispersed so many potent ideas into the air and seeded the soil for generations to come.
