A couple more notable quotes:Back before we left Little Portion John Martin was heard to say: “I’m lethargic and I’ve lost my shoes”. John Michael recently noted, I’m told in something of a haughty accent: “I am a child of the Prairie”. 🙂

A good concert tonight despite a handful of little problems. It seemed through the day that something new went wrong every few minutes. Computer problems, interference with in ear monitors, guitar amps knocked over,rampcoming off the truck. I’ll leave it to you to to decide if this is just happenstance or the deliberate effort of […]

The MONK ROCK Tour has been a blessing – really cool too. John Michaeland Terry have so much to teach us “younger” artists (I barely qualifyfor that anymore). John Martin (drums/percussion) and Joe Hand (bass)are also a joy to work with, and John Cotton, our sound guy, is “thebomb”. He can fix anything and does […]

We had our first concert of this leg last niight in Edmond, Oklahoma. The audience was truly enthusiastic. The band and crew were not entirely happy with our respective performances but the crowd didn’t seem to mind. If you were present and dissappointed by the lack of a second encore song I apologize. It was […]

John Michael’s written a new song about Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans called Beautiful City. It’s available for download at the JMT online store. The $0.99 purchase goes to Mercy Corps to support hurricane relief. I have to say, I love this tune. The guys were out on the bus rehearsing it this afternoon and […]

We’ve got some extra hands for the first few days this trip. Faith, Abigail & Maria are daughters from two of the Monastic Families at Little Portion Hermitage. They’ll be with us until Hallettsville, Texas to get a good look at what life is like in a touring ministry. Their first lesson? Riding the bus […]

The truck’s loaded and the bus is here. We got the same bus and the same driver (David) as last trip. A small miracle of consistency. Amen. Tomorrow we ride. See you in Oklahoma.JTC

I have to admit to being the source of some early road humor this morning. Terry and Joe were both brought to great laughter as I stated: “Guacomole scares me.“JTC

The November tour leg got off to an unofficial early start this weekend. The band, minus Tom Booth, joined JMT in Little Rock for the Diocesan Eucharistic Congress. Don’t worry, Tom will be backwith us for the tour dates. He was off at NCYC this weekend. A while back Bishop Sartain asked John Michael to […]

Greetings all,I thought it would be neat to have a place where those of us out on the Monk Rock tour could post observations, updates, comments, what we see, who meet etc. If we all have time to make a post here or there, great! If not this blog will disappear quickly.:-)JTC