Doctors & PTs tell me that taking a pair of Advil an hour before a gig will help a lot. I keep them in my case, for me and my band-mates. (I ran out this weekend and need to remember to refill my supply.) Old, plastic film canisters are perfect containers for them, and many other things. Now that film is gone, like vinyl records, I'm not sure what I'll use when I lose my last one.
People sometimes ask me whether "brown vitamins" take their name from fiddler, Dave Brown. Only indirectly. It's actually the color itself that was named after Dave. When we were kids, that particular shade didn't even have a name, we just called it "dark tan." Sure, we're all impressed by his fiddling, but having an actual color named after you -- how amazing is that?
