Last night in Pai at my final gig in town, I was billed as the headliner. "Jeffrey from San Francisco" introduced as Je Flea. Loved it. Anyway had a packed house with lots of Thais, Euros, and a couple of Americans. I was wearing my Obama T-shirt and periodically I would stand up and toast to Obama. Everyone in the place raised their glasses and yelled "Obama!".
I was blown away and did it every couple of tunes much to the delight of everyone.
Obama is grabbing the worlds attention in a very powerful and positive way.
Today as I left Pai midway to Tha Ton I was stopped at a police roadblock (that I heard could be a bit tricky). The Thai cop comes up to me and the bike, askes for my passport, which I do not have beacuse I had to leave it with the motorcycle rental place. I hand him my international drivers license and a photo copy of my passport. He motions to move over to this holding area. SHIT! So I move me and the bike there and he starts asking me questions of what is in my bags, where have I been, where am I going. A minute later the head cop comes over to see what is going on. He see's my Obama sticker on my guitar case. He mentions the word Obama and I say Obama and give a thumbs up amd a big smile. He smiles back at me and says something in Thai to the other cop who then says that I can leave, tips his cap and off I go.
Obama magic is already happening!!
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So one must ask, what did you play for the locals? What caught their attention?
Stay well
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