![]() ![]() So I ordered some food and a tequila and watched as the room started to swim. The ideal drink for a man in the first stages of sunstroke and suffering extreme dehydration, obviously. It had liquid, was cold, and there was salt around the rim of the glass. She said I needed to replace the salt in my body and so I hit on the perfect solution to a number of things troubling me: a tequila or two. I just needed to sit somewhere cool and have a drink. She said I had sunstroke but I knew better. My eyelashes hurt, I felt dizzy and weak, but I was also hungry. My partner said I was probably a bit dehydrated and so we should stop somewhere for lunch.īack in the middle of deserted Phoenix we found an interesting looking Tex-Mex place just as I was really starting to fade. I hadn't eaten breakfast - I seldom do - and on the way back to town felt a little faint. I stayed out of the sun for the most part but after a couple of hours inspecting this legendary place in the annals of architecture it was pretty much all done. I walked around the workspaces and offices, scoured the bookshop and then took in the gardens of cacti and rock. I had on jeans and a t-shirt, and adopted a jaunty swagger in the blazing heat. People were carrying umbrellas and water bottles. That said it was a beautiful place but what I remember as much as anything was getting out of the car at 8am and feeling the sun burn my scalp, then my brain. Frank, I guess because he was famous and rich, just thought up the idea and put others to work. Of course he personally hadn't built it, that task fell to manual labourers prepared to carry rocks in the bleaching sun. On this Friday morning however first order of business was to get out of town and see Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesyn which he had built out there in the scorched earth. ![]() It was in the low 40s and the heat was so intense you didn't sweat, the perspiration just evaporated out of you. Phoenix is pretty much a slab of asphalt, concrete and buildings in the middle of the high dry plains and on this particular Friday there was no one on the shimmering streets. Well, it was May and while that isn't exactly the height of their summer in Phoenix (when they can expect average temperatures in the high 40s) it was still bloody hot. They were scheduled to play at the huge Sun Devil Stadium in Phoenix and so I figured on making my way there to see them, and catch some Arizona desert and the work of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright who had established his Taliesyn West school outside Phoenix. It was during their Pop-Mart tour - the one with the giant Spinal Tap-like lemon - and I happened to be driving around America. Them, the Arizona sun, a famous architect and tequila actually. It was quite a few years ago now but I'll never forget it. ![]()
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