About AlanPaul
Alan Paul is the author of the New York Times bestseller One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band and the acclaimed memoir Big in China. He is also a singer and guitarist who fronts the Big in China band and Friends of the Brothers, the premier tribute to the Allman Brothers Band.
Entries by AlanPaul
Video — guqin/guitar duet
Just found and posted this.. from last September’s Xiamen Beach Festival… we improvised this guitar/guqin duet to kick off our performance.. wish I had the whole thing, but I happy I have any of it…
Fwd: Shenzhen photos
Do rock stars really complain about attention? We had a blast. Only problem was we had to be on our way tot he airport about 4 hours after these pictures were taken. —
Twitter and Shenzhen gigs
This is my second email post and the first to try and include images.It is delayed because I sent to the wrong address. Trying again…And again.. Just got bounced back because size was too large.. I have now reduced to one photo… Pictures were trying to capture the atrocious hotel room we stayed at last […]
Dong
The more I thought about this trip to China in the weeks before undertaking it, the more convinced I became that I had to find a way to see Dong, my original Chinese teacher, whom many of you will remember dropped out, left Beijing and went to Huashan, a holy mountain near Xi’an, to become […]
Testing 1 2 3
I think I figured out how to do email posts which will also allow me to post photos. We will see. Gave in to twittering. Handle is APaul. Sent from iPhone
On to Wuxi and laoshi (teacher) Dong
NOTE: UNFORTUNATELY, I CAN NOT POST PICTURES. BLOGSPOT IS BANNED IN CHINA NOW AND NOW THAT INCLUDES THE POSTING PAGE. I HAVE TO USE SOME OTHER WAYS OF GETTING ON HERE AND THAT SOMEHOW PRECLUDES PHOTO POSTING. I HAVE SOME GOOD ONES. WILL PUT SOME ON FACEBOOK IF I HAVE A CHANCE…AND LOAD THEM UP […]
Closure
A big part of the motivation for this return trip was the elusive goal of closure, a term I’ve always sort of hated and considered trite. I can already feel it coming in many respects. I have retraced so many steps of places I used to frequent and while they still look good and it’s […]
Day Two: Get the band together, boys
We had our first show last night, which became acoustic because of rain.. it was a lot of fun. We had a rehearsal yesterday afternoon and our first show last night. I was a little worried at first if one short rehearsal would be enough before welaunched into all these shows. I had some concerns […]