America's Gerry Beckley has experienced real separation during this time of social distancing.
Beckley normally splits his time between Southern California and his wife's home country, Australia. During the pandemic, Beckley has remained in the U.S. the past five weeks since live shows had to stop.
Gerry explains,"My wife and I split our time between Sydney and here in Venice, California. When this all came down and our schedule flattened out, I immediately booked a fligth down there. But I thought it best to just kinda ride it out here. Both my boys are here in California. And I wanted to make sure they were safe. And also, the whole situation in Australia was just starting to unfold, so I didn't want to drop 67-year-old step dad right into the middle of a dynamic. Two of her girls live at home, my step daughters."
Beckley is scheduled to fly from L.A. to Sydney this weekend.
Gerry says of Australia, “They are doing quite well. Their numbers are very good; they did a lockdown immediately. Their numbers aren't quite as good as New Zealand, which are just unbelievably good, for people who want to look that stuff up. But that was a reason to wait, also was to see if the low numbers in Australia were just the lack of testing and stuff that might ramp up in a few weeks. But they seem to have a pretty good handle on it and the health care system is not quite as overloaded as we've seen in our country."
Since Gerry Beckley is separated from band mate Dewey Bunnell it will be much harder for the duo to produce an at-home online set. "It's a little hard to sync a multi [location] performance."