Nov 27 2002 @ Melkweg Amsterdam, NL

Flew to Amsterdam, met up with Arno, went to the venue, met up with the band who were all very tired and chatted with Sarah, Nico and his two friends were also there (Phillipe and I'm ashamed to say I've forgotten the ladies name! Big apologies to her!). We went for a meal with Norwood, Sarah and Ase at a South African restaurant and then went back to the venue apart from Arno who had another co...

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the Euro-reunion wasn't on as big a scale as the LA one, but nevertheless it was fun. Let's start with a preview of what's to come:

-multitrack live recording -5 camera registration of the concert -lots of US stoners -south african food -Nuttwork shirts -Meshell -Ase's birthday

Okay.. to start of, my mobile phone provider had made a mistake and had...

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Ok, we arrived at Melkweg at about 14:30 and met Sarah, Norwood, and the cute Ase. Jessica gave her a little fish toy for her birthday, but she was more interested by the wrapping paper than what was inside.

After a while, Arno and Colin arrived. We chatted a while and watched Colin and my friend pictures. We went next to the band's hotel, and waited Sarah that was dressing Ase. Very cool hotel, everybody was smoking in the lounge and there were some Hightimes peoples around there.

Next we went to a restaurant outside the touristic zone of Amsterdam, small but very original. Ase showcased us her drumming talent on the table, and was mixing her pear juice with everything she could find. Sarah and Norwood seems to be very cool parents, I loved the way they talked to her, trying to explain her things.

We returned to Melkweg at about 20:30, and met other band members in the backstage. We offered each musician a book we made about the concert in Aigle : really cool item with about 100 pictures of before, during and after the show together with all related press articles and promo we did. Everybody was so happy and couldn't believe that they can keep it.

From 20:30 until 23:15 we stayed the whole time in the backstage, and it was some kind of achievement. There was such a fog in this room !!! Dirty Walt was in heaven, like a kid in a candy store. He was rolling nonstop, and each time he gave me the blunt, he had a grin from an ear to the other, and said : "Yeah, Man !" That was so cool. I don't know how Jessica and Colin could have stay in this room without smoking.

The show was really special, as it was so quiet. When you were on the front of the stage, you could have think that you were in some kind of VIP area. You could go anywhere on the front from left to right without difficulty. Thanks to that my friend took amazing pictures of each member, I hope I can upload some somewhere. The show was cool, Norwood was amazing as usual, Spacey and John looked a little tired, Angelo was very static due to his knee problem, and Dirty Walt was in his garden... Very different show from last time I came for the cup in 99(which is one of my top three Bone show)

The show was not so great, but the day we passed with Sarah, Ase, Colin, Arno, Denis, Philippe, Jessica and the boys was really cool and friendly. I think that everybody had a great time, anyway I did. It was a pleasure to meet new listmembers and to see Sarah and Denis again.

See you soon, for the next tour.

Bye, Nico.

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Basically, Cannibus cup is a week-long american event organised for americans-who-want-to-go-on- a-pilgrimage-to-the-world-capital- of-the-herb-that-makes -you-sleepy/crazy/openminded/... (fill the blanks / choose what it does for you). So even if the show was sold out, the venue was not packed at all. Same venue as for 9.9.99 and my memories of that time is that the melkweg was packed. Mainly ...

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