Entries by AlanPaul

Hey Hey Gunya

Check this out. This was our wildest gig of the tour. Note the guy giving me a Cubano cigar and the Russian chick bringing us shots…The song is a mashup of a Chinese blues and “Kansas City.”

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Glad to be home

I may have set a new record yesterday. I was eating noodles with the guys at 2:30 am in Changsha and coaching soccer at noon in Beijing. Back to reality ad no more rock star life. But that’s fine. The tour was spectacular; truly one of the highlights of my life and I am sad […]

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Home, where the music’s playing…

One of the most moving and cool parts of this trip was returning to Hunan with Lu Wei, our drummer. He is a native of the province and has not been home for eight years now. I still do not fully understand they whys and wherefores. His father and grandfather are also drummers and apparently […]

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Hunan updates

This has been such an eventful few days, it’s hard to capture, or know where to begin. I will do a full catchup when I am back in Beijing starting to explore some of the emotional intensity of the week, but first let me do some quick basic catching up. I am about to leave […]

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Wolfeman Howls in Spain

Old friend Michael Lee Wolfe blazed the Jewish guy form Sq. Hill making it as an international music sensation many, many years before me. He has been living in Spain since forever, and now plays with the great singer Anabel Santiago. Here is her website. Not sure if he took the pictures or not.

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New Woodie Alan website

We played our second festival gig tonight. It was less dramatic, Dave was not here which automatically made it less good, but we were ore relaxed and played great. It was a smaller crowd.. work day versus weekend, but still plenty of people. A lot of fun. So I had some time on my hands […]

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Tour diary continued: Xiamen club gig

Our first night in Xiamen we played at the 1970s Club, did a 90 minute late night set that went really well. Back on the big stage tonight. Band photo with friend/shred master Powell Youngin front of the wonderfully named 1970s Club.After the gig, at the club.

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Xiamen Beach Festival 2008

We headlined the Xiamen Beach Festival tonight and played on a huge stage in front of thousands of people. There was a full moon overhead; the Taiwan Straits and a crashing surf behind us; lanterns filling the air, fueled by candles — mini hot air balloons to celebrate the mid-autumn Festival. We got up there, […]

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Xiamen Beach Festival 2008

We headlined the Xiamen Beach Festival tonight and played on a huge stage in front of thousands of people. There was a full moon overhead; the Taiwan Straits and a crashing surf behind us; lanterns filling the air, fueled by candles — mini hot air balloons to celebrate the mid-autumn Festival. We got up there, […]

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Woodie Alan Beijing Blues tour 2008

We are on the road, baby.You can now safely call Woodie Alan a touring band. We are doing six or seven shows in a week. Right now we are in Xiamen in South China, right across the straits from Taiwan, for a Beach Festival. They flew us down here and are putting us up in […]

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