The Power To Believe 2003 Tour Itinerary.
At the beginning of my day, an e-flurry. One of the incomings was an e-mail from a friend of long acquaintance re: tonight’s performance in Athens, GA: Call me & let’s get together.
How is it possible to explain the touring life? Briefly, touring is not a series of social visits and (in my touring days) no time is put aside for socialising. This is because I have no time, nor energy, for socialising.
Everywhere I go, there is usually at least one person I would enjoy meeting, and several that are better to avoid. Why? Because of the expectation & demand on my attention. But he’ll want to see me! is the reliable call I have heard at backstage security. If I were I to socialise with such as these, it would be a distraction & attention-energy drain from my proper work.
And yet when will I return to Athens with time for socialising? There are stories to be told of friendships ended when acquaintances came to shows expecting to be given my full attention & were angered when I turned my attention to others, and to my work.
So this evening, regrettably not.
[Excerpt from RF’s Diary - Friday 24th. February, 2006 ]
This is happening too often: “friendships ended when acquaintances came to shows expecting to be given my full attention”
I missed that show in Valencia waaahhhh!