March 16 - Day Off, NYC

Our one day off on the tour! Greg and I slept in til 8am to move the van and trailer to a legal spot that would become illegal at 11:30am. Crab cakes & eggs at Tom's Restaurant in Crown Heights. Tom's son Gus was very cordial and gave each of us a 2-second neck massage.

We hit the MOMA, Central Park, The Dakota, and then went down Broadway to the Brill Building, but it seems they weren't hiring songwriters that day. However a maintenance man and a tenant gave us Cliff Notes of its history ("Carol King was on 4..."). Then we ate BBQ street kabobs and Mike hawked NEW YORK sweatshirts to the Times Square squares.
"TELL 'EM WHERE YA BEEN! TELL 'EM WHERE YA ARE! EXERCISE! EXERCISE! YOU NEED TO SWEAT! GET YOUR NEW YORK SWEATSHIRT! ONE FOR YOU! ONE FOR YOUR WALL!..."

The other guys got drinks in Brooklyn while I stayed in mid-town to be a guest on the Sirius radio program "Get In Bed" hosted by the busily talented Sara Benincasa. It's a sex talk slumber party on the Cosmo Channel. Lots of fun, and the band got several plugs over the course of the 3 hour program.

After some more drinks at the Pig & Whistle, I cabbed it to Crown Heights around 3 or 4am.

Wait.  I thought this was supposed to be a day off, y'know.  A day of rest.  

Oh yeah.  It's New York.  Rest no exist.

Gimmee a canoli.