We were trying to get the show out the door ? which is faster than loading. I remember seeing the sun come in at 6 the following morning.

I couldn't do anything without my crew. They're the people that put in the blood, sweat, and tears ? and they do bleed sometimes and they do sweat a lot. Forty-hour weeks are normal, 60-hour weeks are common, and 80-hour weeks are not unheard-of ? we do three or four of those a season.

The show is a kind of rest period for us. You know the old saying: 'you have to get the show on the road' because it's going to L.A., Seattle, or wherever, and they have to load in the next morning.

I'm always trying to find where things fall correctly. I'll go through 50 or 60 records, trying to blend it with one rock or '80s track before I'll even decide which one I'm going to use.

It's been brutal, sometimes I can't get out of my own way. I'm still trying to figure out what I need to do.

We're trying to get better by the time the conference tournament gets here and hopefully we'll be able to make a nice little run there.