#1!

Hi Everybuddy,

Well, my babes are back in town after being gone for five days, and I am very happy to have them back around. When my two girls and their beautiful mother are gone, I am reminded how much my life is built around them. Home is home when they’re here; otherwise it’s just a place to live.

I received great news today: “Banana” has climbed to #1 on the national XM Kids chart! I’m really excited about this. I’m sort of going bananas over it. Sorry — it was just so obvious, I had to say it. Please forgive me. In any event, this means that a lot of people out there are hearing music from “The Ballad Of Phineas McBoof,” and that makes me very happy.

My mind has been working over something for the past two weeks, and that thing is touring. I would like to perform in various places, but I don’t want to be away from my family for more than a week. Hmmm… This limits my options a great deal. Maybe I’ll branch out a little more than that, but I am quite sure that while my kids are young I’ll never want to be touring around without my family for more than a few weeks here and there in any given year. So I’ll have to be wise about when and where I go.

Also, due to the nature of my show, traveling by air is very expensive. Because of all the instruments and technology I incorporate into my show, my traveling gear consists of twenty bags of equipment. Twenty bags! So it is very expensive to fly the show anywhere.

My current plan is to go on a Wild West Tour for a month each summer, hitting several Western states and the coast, and to go a few times a year to the San Francisco Bay Area, where I grew up. So I’ll have a major stomping ground in the Denver metro, a minor stomping ground in the Bay Area, and a region I hit once a year in the Western states. As to the other states… We’ll see what we can do in the future.

If my wife and kids weren’t so cute, this wouldn’t be a problem. I’d just get one of those big old motor homes and live on the road for long stretches of time. But they are, so I won’t. It’s a good problem to have.

Your buddy for life,

Doctor Noize