Bye Bye Alabama!

Sup everybody,

Blain here again with another update from the road! Hope everyone has been having a good last couple days, I know we have! They have been pretty intense to say the least. We had a show both days, which I will get to in a few minutes, but first thing is first, We finally got a day at the beach, the good news, we weren't the most pastey guys out there! There were some people you couldn't even look at with out going Blind. . .the bad news, none of us got sunscreen so we left a lot redder than we cam, which yes, hurts like HELL when you where a bass on your shoulders for 4 hours afterwards! I thought I was going to cry at the show that night, and now I have all this nasty peeling on my shoulder where my strap was and god, it's bad. But, before I start to tell you about things you don't want to hear, I will stop. :)

The first of the shows after New Orleans (BEST TOWN EVER!!) was our second night at The Hangout. This was most definitely a make or break gig for us. Since we came to the table with all originals the first time we had 2 days and we packed learning 12 covers into 2 days! SOMEHOW, big somehow, We have no Idea how we did it, (We must not suck as much as we thought!) We actually did some cool songs, We did What I got, by Sublime, Fortunate Son, by CCR, Why Dont we do it in the Road, by The Beatles, Hard to Handle, The Black Crowes Version, and Semi Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind, just to name a few. Hopefully we can remember them well enough to come home and play them for you guys and not suck! lol So we ended up blowing the roof off of the place, We saw some friends from back home AGAIN! a lot of people from Indiana must come down to Gulf Shores a lot. lol I also saw some good friends of mine from down there in Foley, it was cool to them again for sure. We ended the show with an invite to come back for a music festival from the owner and sold a ton of Merch thanks to Alec and Brian pushing stuff like crazy. They really are a lot more useful than they look! :)

The next night we played at Hopjacks in Pensacola, which, as you know if you have been reading my blog posts, means 1 thing. . . STEAK PIZZA!! We had a second night of the best pizza in the world, and another roof blown three stories higher. We learned that Hopjacks is trying to turn into a national chain now, so look for a Hopjacks coming near you! We were all talking about how amazing it would be to travel the Hopjacks circuit and go through a ton of states playing at Hopjacks and eating that pizza every day!!!! OMG, we could come back really fat thats for sure. hahaha! We also learned from the manager there that they are turning the building newt door into a venue for national touring bands, it will seat about 5000 people and they said they would love to get us in as an openner! See guys, these are the reasons we go on these little trips we call tours. We meet great, nice, and helpful people, get to show our music to hundreds of people who would never get to hear it otherwise, and get lots of good food and drink! :) It may be a lot of work, but it sure beats a day job! HA! Well, wish us luck tonight in Nashville, I will be back soon to tell you how it all went.

~peace, love, and good vibrations~

Blain