Walking With Spiders

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wow.

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probably one of my favorites of Matt in recent history.

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falling-through-the-sky:

(…) After finding catering and freshening up in the men’s locker room-style bathroom we’ll share among the twelve of us for the day, I hear the news: Matt has a broken toe. An X-ray confirms this and so Matt is hobbling around backstage, wearing on his injured foot an orthopedic shoe resembling a Birkenstock sandal crossed with a blue Kangaroos sneaker. (The fracture occurred when he made a misstep climbing out of his bunk on the bus. A humbling injury for a man I have seen clamber up speaker stacks with all the grace and agility of a jungle cat.) But the show must go on. It always does.

Matt opts not to wear the embarrassing ortho-sandal and makes it through the night in his boots, hopping frantically around the stage like he’s dancing on hot coals. Richie [of Arcade Fire] elevates things when he joins us on “Afraid of Everyone” and “Conversation 16”; I keep my head down and chug through “the hits” and try not to psyche myself out of what is becoming a decent show. Kyle Lewis, drum tech, has replaced the coated heads on my toms with clear pinstripes (a type of drum head that you’ll hear a lot on 80s fusion recordings. Think: Steve Gadd.). Tubby, warm, round, and huge-sounding, these are the heads I think will work for the jumbo-sized venues on this run. So I’m flush with that hammer-of-God feeling I get as I hit the floor tom to begin “Terrible Love.”

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