Blurt tour on a budget: five guys; three musicians and two roadies who know it all. Together in a van across Europe. After Holland they prepare for Berlin, where the group has gained a considerable following. An excursion to taste, for a brief moment, the feeling of being famous.
Ted: We wouldn't be touring if the response from our audiences wasn't there. I like to show off. I'm a performer, hopeless. I need the audience to get my motor running. You can just look at yourself in the mirror when you're on your own, you see. That doesn't do anything. If you wouldn't need an audience you might as well stay in the studio, that's kind of a mirror effect too.
Performing is an extreme form of social contact and wanting to be famous is also very relative. I could have been famous a long time if I really wanted that and nothing else...Just like everybody has a potential murderer inside himself, everybody wants to be famous as well. It depends on how great the urge is present, it can get out of hand as well...
Look, everybody is looking for some kind of security, no? So is every artist. But when you're in a band you don't have any security, it's very uneasy. Continuing it is just plain stupid, or... you're just too much addicted to the experience of performing.
The addiction even goes as far that, when asked if he's ready for a photo-shoot, he answers: "Wait a minute, I'm not nervous enough" and honks his saxophone on the Amsterdam streets al the way to the location. At 12 o' clock noon on a sunday.
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