Check out the vid and youtube “The Sequence”.

I know this first pic seems kinda random, but this piece of paper has really come in handy.  I loose track of days so very easily because we’re constantly on the go!

This is a view of the area immediately outside of our hotel.  We heard that the city is pretty much a college town.  So there are primarily twenty-somethings that hang in the area.  Everything seems modern and hip with a flair of historic architecture.

It looked like the snow had just fallen the day before.  Most of the cars were just easing by and taking it easy.  Ironically, there were a lot of people out and about walking in the weather.  You know this is new to me!  In Atlanta, this much snow would shut the city down for days!!!!

This was all of the snow cleared from one corner of the street.   See how tall it is?! Ha!

There was a church there that I could see from my hotel room.  If you look closely, you can see the top of it.

I took a walk in search of this church and found this little gem:

I finally made it to the church, or as close as I could get without skis:

Here’s a few pics of the venue.  It was a pretty dope place:

The sound was incredible and the people were great.  There were a couple of incredible singers in the house that night to0.  Angie passed them the mic, and they killed it.  We later found out that one of them was a finalist on Swedish Idol!

I love my job!

We had to travel from Lund, Sweden to Gothenburg.  It was only about a 2 hour’s drive, but this is a great opportunity for me to show you the tour bus that has become my second home!

Everybody tries to act like it doesn’t matter where anyone sits, but the truth is everyone has their favorite spot and that seat to the right is mine..ha ha!  It’s in the front where I can see out the front windshield and play the Playstation 3, have some say so in which movie is watched and never get left!  Here’s other pics of the bus:

We like to call this the bedroom. There’s a door that allows this room to be private.  The room also has its own tv, surround sound, DVD, PS3, Satellite and light dimmers in about 10 different colors.

These are the bunks where everyone sleeps.  There are only 6, so you know someone has to sleep elsewhere.  I personally sleep in the seat I showed you earlier.  It actually reclines to about 120 degrees.

This was supposed to be my bunk, but there is a draft from outside that was making me sick.

Windows Media Center with over 300 movies and a router for wireless internet on the bus!

Here’s a pic of everyone in the front watching a movie.  This was before I claimed my seat…ha ha!

This is the inside of the venue for Gothenburg

Above is a shot of the stage.

We didn’t spend the night in Gothenburg, so I don’t have any city shots.  But here are pics of outside of the venue in all of the snow!!!

It was snowing pretty hard!

The Parking Lot

The sidewalk.  They had to dig out a path for people walk through!  Do you see the evening rush to the right?

Outside of the venue.  Can you believe people actually came to this gig?

The fried chicken that blessed my soul after the show!!!

There are about 18 shows in all and this is where it all begins.  We had to make an hour’s drive to Lund from Copenhagen, Denmark.  I like having the opportunity to ride around in new places because it always helps me to get more acquainted with the land and helps maps make more sense to me.  I never knew much about Europe but it appears that all of the countries in the EU are “islands” connected by bridges and tunnels.

Imagine driving over a 12 mile bridge in -1 degree Celsius temperature, high above what seems to be a large semi-frozen lake.  Kinda made me a little nervous…

Lund appears to be somewhat of a quiet town.  There are cobblestone streets mixed in with regular asphalt streets.  I used to hate walking on cobblestone, until I realized how it keeps me from busting my butt walking through snow and thin layers of ice!

I’m not sure how this actually works, but it appeared that bikers, pedestrians, cars and buses all shared the road.  You would think that this would cause chaos all over the place, but everyone seemed to be respectful of each other and everything worked out.  And now that I think about it, I don’t remember seeing any stop signs… I’ll have to check into that for sure.

…and try to say this three times fast:

I know I can’t!!!

The show was a cool show.  You know how the first one’s are… you get to work out all the kinks that you didn’t know you had.  The people seemed to have enjoyed themselves!!

This is my first time getting anywhere near London so I was uber excited to see this sign.  We were only passing through, but I’ll be back next week for three shows.  We had a two hour lay-over and I decided to just kinda walk around the airport….

Okay so at this point I’m like… yo, maybe this is just Baller’s Ave…..maybe I’m on the wrong side of the airport….

Yeah, but Baller’s Ave never ended… Tiffany, Coach and many others just kicking it at the airport.  I’m telling you, the airport in London puts any mall I’ve been to around the world to shame.  Can a brother just find a Duty Free Shop?  This was just an introduction to how London is on top of her style game.  I gotta get my bread up before my next layover….

Finally make it to Copenhagen and stepped outside to see SNOW.  I had planned for it to be kinda cool outside, but I wasn’t prepared for the bone chill factor!!!  I’m not used to this kind of air back in Atlanta!

The pic above is the view from my hotel room.  There was a lake behind our hotel and as you can see it was practically frozen.  This is stuff ya boy usually only sees on TV, so I was pretty intrigued.

We battled the winds and walked to the mall.  Ended up eating at a Mexican buffet that seemed to have everything but mexican food (i.e. pasta, french fries, curry chicken…)  I couldn’t figure that one out, but the food was great.  Wait, maybe I was hungry…

When we left the mall, a fresh snow had fallen over the lake…

It was tempting to walk over, but something told me that I probably shouldn’t… lol.

So there ends the first couple of days on tour.  Our first show was actually today in Lund, Sweden.   I’ll have more pics and stories about everything in the next post!!  Holla!

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My New Boss - Angie Stone - Photo by Dave Ellis

Hey guys!  For those of you that don’t know I’ve recently joined Angie Stone’s band and I have been doing shows with her all over the US.  It’s been a great experience and as of Monday 02/22/10, it’ll become an experience that we’ll take over seas to Europe! We’ll be visiting Sweden, London, Norway, France, and Poland over a three week period.

I’m very excited about this opportunity and another chance to see parts of the world that I’ve only seen in books or heard about in the movies!  As usual, I’ll try to blog as much as possible and post as many pictures as I can.  This will be a great adventure!  Stay tuned!

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