Day Seven, The Maison and FOOD!:
Interesting fact. The bridge over lake Pontchartrian is the longest bridge over water in the entire world, and is located between New Orleans and Covington, Louisiana where we stayed, and measures about 23 miles across.
Anyways, after crossing the longest bridge in the world... we were back to the birthplace of jazz. Needless to say, we love it in New Orleans. Great city, hip people, AMAZING food, and even better music. We stopped into a small restaurant for lunch and had easily the best food of the entire trip. Granted they were competing with hot dogs and canned soup, but none the less it was incredible. After stuffing our guts, we went parked Suzy (the van) at The Maison where we were playing that night and walked around the town. Since it was Saint Patties day, we knew that there had to be something cool to see. But as always, we gravitated towards music shops and met the owner of Peaches, an awesome record shop near the end of the French Quarter. We talked to her for a good little bit, and got our CD in the store! Not only that but she agreed to play our stuff over the speakers for a while! Keep your fingers crossed, because she seemed to dig us, and she books bands on the board for the New Orleans Jazz Festival :) Needless to say, we are hoping to hear back from her...
But anyways, we went back to the Maison, played for a few hours, met some new fans, and had a great time. After we packed up for the night and were headed back to good ole Suzy, we caught ourselves. It was only 2 o'clock in a city that plays music ALL NIGHT LONG! So we thought better of the situation, and turned around and found the first club that had a live band. Much to our pleasure, a mostly instrumental gospel band without a name was jamming inside. We couldn't believe it when the saw the guitar player for T.I. take the stage and rip and absolutely unbelievable solo! After a little bit of star struck war off, we had to take off because at that point in the week, all four of us had come down with a sinus infection and major congestion and we all needed the sleep.
Back across the worlds longest bridge...
Day Eight- The Banks Street Bar
The triumphant return to The Banks! Well after a few games of pool, the keg ran out of our free beer :( But we had a blast seeing some old friends and played an early set before a face punching metal tour took the stage. We took the night off and hung out at the pool at the hotel and ate soup...
Day Nine- Up to Mobile
Back to the Hopjacks in Mobile, and some of the greatest pizza! After an incredible pie, we played for a few hours and saw some friends from the show earlier that week in Gulf Shores! After a far too brief chill sesh, we headed back to Big Lagoon to reclaim our camp spot in Pensacola. Tent up, beers down, lights out.
Day Ten- Last Show
For the first time all week, we bought an official bundle of fire wood. I say bundle, but for six dollars we got THIRTY logs delivered to our spot! So now we had a day and a half to burn off thirty logs... so we wasted no time cooking up some dogs and brats. After a satisfying meal we headed off to the other Hopjacks in Pensacola, and played a fun filled set. Little did we know the owner was sleeping upstairs and complaining about the noise all night long :) Sorry dude. That night at the camp grounds, we slept through an INTENSE rainstorm the likes of which hasn't been seen since Noah's Arc was commissioned.
Day Eleven- The Day of Damage
We awoke in the morning to our tent blowing over. Bummer. And everything outside was soaked. Blain and Matt slept in the van, so they were dry and happy. Brian and I on the other hand... not so much. But either way, we took it as an excuse to get an early start on the day and packed everything up. I went to the Winn-Dixie up the road to buy lighter fluid, because we surely weren't going to leave our six dollar wood pile unburned. After an ENTIRE bottle of lighter fluid, we had a roaring fire. We burned all remaining 25 pieces of wood down to nothing but ash in less than four hours, a feat no environmentalist would be proud of.
We packed up and hit the road headed towards Nashville to see our buddies from Tax Brandywine.... that's when the real shit show started. We were at mile 76 on 65 North (which is NOT very far from where we started) when Blain noticed the engine temp gauge had blasted all the way up as high as it would go! We quickly pulled over to find that we were leaking coolant profusely, and our fan belt had come off completely. Of course it was 5:30 on a Sunday. Not a mechanic in the miles (which in the backwoods area of Alabama, you really have to travel miles to find anything in the first place) was open or would answer the phone. We finally called the Advance Auto Parts out of desperation to see if they knew of anyone who could help us. We were told quickly to look up Greg Allen in the phone book. WHAT? Seriously? What the hell does that even mean? After a half hour of google searches and yellowpages.com, we couldn't find the elusive Greg Allen anywhere. Finally we called the auto parts store back and begged them to just tell us his number. He finally agreed. After we got ahold of Greg (who took about an hour to get to our spot from his home- which is actually making good time for the distance he traveled) and immediately told us we had blown out our water pump :( Wha wha wha... we had to pull up to a truck stop/gas station and camp out inside the van. Of course, this was the coldest night of the whole trip. But after a few left over beers, we all learned how to play Euchre again. That held us over for the rest of the night.
Final Day- Greg Allen
Greg came and picked us up and took us back to his hillbilly heaven in his back yard. With probably about 60 rusted out cars, and a small shelter, we really weren't sure if this was going to turn into a scene from Deliverance. But at the end of the day he ended up fixing us up and doing a hell of a job.
14 hour drive home.
The end.
The Post Script
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Tour Updates After Day Six...
Ok, so we left almost a week ago, and have plenty of tales to tell...
Day One, The Acoustic CoffeeHouse- Johnson City TN:
We spent a long afternoon driving through a made for TV horror movie in the hills of Tennessee. After we were sure that our poor van was going to break down after climbing the massive hills of eastern Tennessee, and rolling through almost impenetrable fog, our headlights decided to stop working for thirty seconds; thoroughly scarring us to death... we arrived at the Acoustic Coffeehouse to find real music lovers who were ready to listen to something new :) We had a great time with our new friends and played some more chilled acoustic music. Afterward, we enjoyed a free stay at the venue where we were slightly freaked out by the lack of privacy, but extremely grateful for a successful first night of the tour.
Day Two, No Show- Driving:
Driving ALLLLLLLL day. We arrive at The Travel Lodge in Pensacola. We load all of our equipment into our very small smokers room that we got stuck with because the hotel overbooked and gave our non-smoking room away to someone else. This should have been our first clue that something was wrong.
Day Three, Beach Experience Number 1 and The Islander:
After waking up after a long nights rest, we packed all of our stuff back into the trailer and warmed up some cans of soup. Our room certainly smelled like a sewage plant, but for $40 a night, we couldn't complain... at least not too loudly, even though management would not allow us to have fresh towels. At about noon we were distraught to find that our show that night might be in jeopardy because IT TOO had been double booked! As we were waiting to find out what our fate held in store for us that night, we decided we needed to relax on the beach and soak in some sun. We were bummed to find that the wind was blowing far too intensely for us to enjoy any time on the sand. While we were getting sand blown into our ears, we got the call back to find that our gig was moved to a club up the street that was inside. This was good news as it was about 50 degrees and was only going to get colder.
That night at the show, we met another interested crowd of party goers that really dug the music. After the first two sets, the band was really heating up, and had saved some of the best gem's for last. At the conclusion of the night, we had another success on our hands. Glad for a good first electric show, we took it as a good omen and went back to the hotel at about four.
Day Four, Out of HERE, to The Office Lounge:
We woke shortly before 11 to check out, and packed everything up all too happy to be leaving the stink hole we had been sleeping in. Because of the smell, the room mix up, and the completely incompetent staff, we were all too happy to be leaving the Travel Lodge in Pensacola, never to return. We decided to give the beach a second try, but to no avail. So we went to go see our buddy Jimmy at The Hang Out. HI JIMMY!!!! After some good catching up, we went to The Office Lounge to prepare early for the gig that night. When we got there, we decided a quick nap in the van was needed. We are lazy like that! After turning a few heads by sleeping on the roof of a van with lightning bolts on the sides at two in the afternoon, we were ready to set up, and rock faces. After the early show, we set up camp at the Big Lagoon campground.
Day Five, The Hang Out:
After waking up at the camp ground much refreshed, we enjoyed the freshly cleaned bathrooms and showers. We headed straight over to our favorite beach front venue, The Hang Out. We set up and enjoyed some Shaka-Shaka chicken wraps. As the temperature began to fall, we warmed up with our first set. By the end of the night, we had made plenty of new friends and fans from all over the country.
Day Six, Leaving the Campground for New Orleans:
A rather uneventful day of driving, campfire hot dogs, and checking in to our New Orleans head quarters. After having a few drinks and taking a well deserved night off we are about to go to sleep and head out for a long day of in stores, street performances, and the show tomorrow at the Maison that we cannot wait to play. We are optimistic and can only hope that it will go as well as the shows prior to it.
More stories to come.
For now, Goodnight.
Day One, The Acoustic CoffeeHouse- Johnson City TN:
We spent a long afternoon driving through a made for TV horror movie in the hills of Tennessee. After we were sure that our poor van was going to break down after climbing the massive hills of eastern Tennessee, and rolling through almost impenetrable fog, our headlights decided to stop working for thirty seconds; thoroughly scarring us to death... we arrived at the Acoustic Coffeehouse to find real music lovers who were ready to listen to something new :) We had a great time with our new friends and played some more chilled acoustic music. Afterward, we enjoyed a free stay at the venue where we were slightly freaked out by the lack of privacy, but extremely grateful for a successful first night of the tour.
Day Two, No Show- Driving:
Driving ALLLLLLLL day. We arrive at The Travel Lodge in Pensacola. We load all of our equipment into our very small smokers room that we got stuck with because the hotel overbooked and gave our non-smoking room away to someone else. This should have been our first clue that something was wrong.
Day Three, Beach Experience Number 1 and The Islander:
After waking up after a long nights rest, we packed all of our stuff back into the trailer and warmed up some cans of soup. Our room certainly smelled like a sewage plant, but for $40 a night, we couldn't complain... at least not too loudly, even though management would not allow us to have fresh towels. At about noon we were distraught to find that our show that night might be in jeopardy because IT TOO had been double booked! As we were waiting to find out what our fate held in store for us that night, we decided we needed to relax on the beach and soak in some sun. We were bummed to find that the wind was blowing far too intensely for us to enjoy any time on the sand. While we were getting sand blown into our ears, we got the call back to find that our gig was moved to a club up the street that was inside. This was good news as it was about 50 degrees and was only going to get colder.
That night at the show, we met another interested crowd of party goers that really dug the music. After the first two sets, the band was really heating up, and had saved some of the best gem's for last. At the conclusion of the night, we had another success on our hands. Glad for a good first electric show, we took it as a good omen and went back to the hotel at about four.
Day Four, Out of HERE, to The Office Lounge:
We woke shortly before 11 to check out, and packed everything up all too happy to be leaving the stink hole we had been sleeping in. Because of the smell, the room mix up, and the completely incompetent staff, we were all too happy to be leaving the Travel Lodge in Pensacola, never to return. We decided to give the beach a second try, but to no avail. So we went to go see our buddy Jimmy at The Hang Out. HI JIMMY!!!! After some good catching up, we went to The Office Lounge to prepare early for the gig that night. When we got there, we decided a quick nap in the van was needed. We are lazy like that! After turning a few heads by sleeping on the roof of a van with lightning bolts on the sides at two in the afternoon, we were ready to set up, and rock faces. After the early show, we set up camp at the Big Lagoon campground.
Day Five, The Hang Out:
After waking up at the camp ground much refreshed, we enjoyed the freshly cleaned bathrooms and showers. We headed straight over to our favorite beach front venue, The Hang Out. We set up and enjoyed some Shaka-Shaka chicken wraps. As the temperature began to fall, we warmed up with our first set. By the end of the night, we had made plenty of new friends and fans from all over the country.
Day Six, Leaving the Campground for New Orleans:
A rather uneventful day of driving, campfire hot dogs, and checking in to our New Orleans head quarters. After having a few drinks and taking a well deserved night off we are about to go to sleep and head out for a long day of in stores, street performances, and the show tomorrow at the Maison that we cannot wait to play. We are optimistic and can only hope that it will go as well as the shows prior to it.
More stories to come.
For now, Goodnight.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Covers...
We are doing something out of the ordinary for us, and taking on a gig in Broad Ripple at CT Peppers doing a few more covers than we typically do.
The show is this friday, and has been a really interesting expereince thus far. We have picked 26 (YES 26!!!) tunes to learn before the show, and have mastered about half of them. We are practicing tonight and tomorrow night, and can't wait to share what we have been up to :) It has been a cool change of pace to put some effort into learning other great artist's music. Up to this point we have only ever played four covers! It has reinspired our playing and writing, and we are super glad to have had the experience.
Like I said, the show is this Friday, the 8th and we play a mixture of these covers and our originals (about 40% cover 60% original) from 10-2.
Hope to see you there!
Abe
The show is this friday, and has been a really interesting expereince thus far. We have picked 26 (YES 26!!!) tunes to learn before the show, and have mastered about half of them. We are practicing tonight and tomorrow night, and can't wait to share what we have been up to :) It has been a cool change of pace to put some effort into learning other great artist's music. Up to this point we have only ever played four covers! It has reinspired our playing and writing, and we are super glad to have had the experience.
Like I said, the show is this Friday, the 8th and we play a mixture of these covers and our originals (about 40% cover 60% original) from 10-2.
Hope to see you there!
Abe
Monday, December 28, 2009
The Money Situation...
Well its never fun to say...
But it would appear that Suzanna (the vanna) has seen better days. She wouldn't start this morning, and I fear the worst. I am afraid she might need more work under the hood, and can't bear the thought of not driving her until it gets warmer. Keep poor Suzanna in your prayers.
Abe
But it would appear that Suzanna (the vanna) has seen better days. She wouldn't start this morning, and I fear the worst. I am afraid she might need more work under the hood, and can't bear the thought of not driving her until it gets warmer. Keep poor Suzanna in your prayers.
Abe
Monday, December 21, 2009
Updates
Ok,
So it has been a very hot minute since we have written anything on here!
First and foremost, the album is finished, mastered, and we are raising money to duplicate it! As soon as we have about $2,000 we will be able to press em' and get them out to you!!!!
Second... Suzanna (the van) is in sour shape. The timing belt squeals, she's eating coolant, and we just had to replace the front brake pads and calipers. Also... she's been having some transmission slips! We are waiting to fix everything until after the album is done, so pray that she survives!
Finally, we are starting up a new year with lots of plans :) Now that the album is done, we plan to be playing in a town near you much more often!
I guarantee I forgot a lot of stuff, but don't you worry, I'll be back soon to fill you in.
Abe
So it has been a very hot minute since we have written anything on here!
First and foremost, the album is finished, mastered, and we are raising money to duplicate it! As soon as we have about $2,000 we will be able to press em' and get them out to you!!!!
Second... Suzanna (the van) is in sour shape. The timing belt squeals, she's eating coolant, and we just had to replace the front brake pads and calipers. Also... she's been having some transmission slips! We are waiting to fix everything until after the album is done, so pray that she survives!
Finally, we are starting up a new year with lots of plans :) Now that the album is done, we plan to be playing in a town near you much more often!
I guarantee I forgot a lot of stuff, but don't you worry, I'll be back soon to fill you in.
Abe
Monday, August 31, 2009
Chillin'
Yo dudes,
Weeeeeellllllllll, we are back at home from the tour Matt is back at work, Abe and Andy are back at school, and I am here at home working on booking, writing this thing, and being unemployed! YAY for unemployment!! You know you always say you wish you didn't have a job until you don't have a job and are just sitting in your house all day, that's why things like Blogging become popular, people (like me) with to much time on their hands. SO I don't know about the other guys, but I am finally getting used to being home and not on the road. . .which means that I'm ready to be back on the road! HAHA! Oh man, the irony of it all! When you're out you can't wait to get home and back in your own bed, then when you are finally back home, you get restless and start working towards getting back out on the road! Oh well, we signed up for this. . .
A little good (hope so anyway) news. I talked to Eric, (Our Producer), a little while ago and he said he would have the next 2 weeks, this was about a week ago, to focus on our album and get it mixed and ready for us to critique! that means it will be ready for mastering, then duplication!! Once we get that done, you can all finally see what we have been working on for the last year. . .we hope you appreciate how much it will mean to us to finally have the finished product in our hands, and be able to put it in yours! after all this time it will hardly seem real. The only thing that could mess up the dream at that point would be if we got our first thousand copies in and had miss spelled our band name or something on the front of it! That would just figure right? Don't worry though, I think we can handle it. At this point we can handle just about anything that comes our way, as long as it means FINALLY getting this album done.
So anyway, it's good to be home and to get to see all of our friends and family again, we love you all, we just can not wait to get this album done, and then to be able to get back out on the road with a product in our hands so we can actually start to spread our music around and get some money to make T-shirts, and other cool stuff. So wish us luck, hopefully we can have this thing done in less than a month!
~Peace, Love, and Good Vibrations~
Blain
Weeeeeellllllllll, we are back at home from the tour Matt is back at work, Abe and Andy are back at school, and I am here at home working on booking, writing this thing, and being unemployed! YAY for unemployment!! You know you always say you wish you didn't have a job until you don't have a job and are just sitting in your house all day, that's why things like Blogging become popular, people (like me) with to much time on their hands. SO I don't know about the other guys, but I am finally getting used to being home and not on the road. . .which means that I'm ready to be back on the road! HAHA! Oh man, the irony of it all! When you're out you can't wait to get home and back in your own bed, then when you are finally back home, you get restless and start working towards getting back out on the road! Oh well, we signed up for this. . .
A little good (hope so anyway) news. I talked to Eric, (Our Producer), a little while ago and he said he would have the next 2 weeks, this was about a week ago, to focus on our album and get it mixed and ready for us to critique! that means it will be ready for mastering, then duplication!! Once we get that done, you can all finally see what we have been working on for the last year. . .we hope you appreciate how much it will mean to us to finally have the finished product in our hands, and be able to put it in yours! after all this time it will hardly seem real. The only thing that could mess up the dream at that point would be if we got our first thousand copies in and had miss spelled our band name or something on the front of it! That would just figure right? Don't worry though, I think we can handle it. At this point we can handle just about anything that comes our way, as long as it means FINALLY getting this album done.
So anyway, it's good to be home and to get to see all of our friends and family again, we love you all, we just can not wait to get this album done, and then to be able to get back out on the road with a product in our hands so we can actually start to spread our music around and get some money to make T-shirts, and other cool stuff. So wish us luck, hopefully we can have this thing done in less than a month!
~Peace, Love, and Good Vibrations~
Blain
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
The end of the tour!
Hey dudes and dudets,
So, what a time we have all had in the last few weeks. . .what a time. The south potion of the tour went VERY well, we got a lot of people on our mailing list, sold a ton of merch, had successful shows pretty much the entire time, and had no car/trailor problems. . .the second half. . .well, let me go ahead and recap. . .
So we start of with a fun show in Cincinatti, OH where we play well, but, I am suffering from food poisoning, but my motto is everything that starts of bad, ends up good, so I was in decent spirits. At the end of our first show, some asshole from the band after us yells at us to hurry and get our stuff off of the stage, so his band can get on stage and proceed to do awful punk versions of 2-Pac songs, sorry guys, I bet the audience just couldn't wait to hear 2-Pac die again! Poor guy was probably rolling over in his grave, but maybe I'm being harsh, they obviously have a reason to rebel, God made them idiots, so they will show the world with their Hip Hop Punk just how angry they are at their short commings!! Take THAT society!
Anyway, next we head to Rochester, NY where we have a really fun acoustic set and get a great place to stay complements of Andy's friend Jen, THANKS JEN!! :-) We also meet up with Mike Lombardo, get some good chicken wings, have some laughs, and so on. It was a good night, things were going well so far. . .then we get to New Jersey.
The Wyndham Hotel in Newark, New Jersey is where the shit goes down. If you're ever in town, do yourself a favor and choose another hotel, the people here have no trouble charging you full for your room after you lose thousands of dollars worth of equipment and have your trailer and Van Vandalized, thanks for the stay guys! (On a side note, I am pretty sure Satan was born in Newark, like 95% sure.) So at this point, we are still able to pull ourselves together and play 2 successful nights at Kenny's Castaways, which is a great club, read the preceeding blog to get a full rundown on the events of those nights, the first night was not one of MY better nights, but Matt and Brian met John Popper from Blues Traveler, so that was cool. . .I just ended stumbling through a couple covers I didn't know with the band that played after us. HA! It was hilarious, but also pretty embarassing I must admit.
Next show in Lewiston, NY gets cancelled because we have to deal with the incompetent staff at the Wyndham and try to squeeze some amount of compensation out of them since their "security" (I say that lightly) staff screwed up and didn't happen to see people carrying away tons of equipment from our van, BANG UP JOB ASSHOLES! :-) So, we spend that day driving to Alfred where we are treated to a great dinner, and amazing hotel accomodtions courtesy of our good friends Mike and Michelle Green, the owners of The Hott Spot! Which is a new tanning salon in Alfred that is pretty cool actually, I don't frequent tanning salons, but, it seems like a cool place. The show wass awesome and hilarious at the same time, we had an outside show with a dance floor of sorts right in front of the stage where a bunch of painfully underage kids, and adults were getting drunk off their asses and dancing and giving us more entertainment then we were giving them! Oh what a show, we got rid of a bunch of merch, met a lot of cool people, and. . .in all honesty it ended up being the only redeeming night of the entire second half of the tour.
Flash forward to Cleveland Ohio, later on the next day. Andy and Matt have been complaining that they have to pee for nearly 2 hours, so, even though we have plenty of gass to drive a hundrerd more miles or so, we stop. During refilling the tank, Abe just happens to walk back to the trailor and to all of our dismay looks down and sees that the A-beam of the trailor has rusted through and snapped, literally about 50 miles more and we would have caused a pile up due to our trailor flying loose from the back of the van. . .so thank god andy and matt almost pissed their pants, or we very well may have been dead and that would have just topped off the second half of this tour. Thanks to Andy's dad for making the 4 hour drive to come help us bring our equipment back home, and oh did it ever suck, but we had our revenge on Traylurch anyway!
We DESTROYED that thing, with the condition it was in, there was no way we were going to be able to get it home, so we decided abandoning it was the best course of action, but not only did we abandon it, we took 2x4's to it and destroyed the walls of it, and Abe, Brian, Konner and i all covered it in Urine and threw the bearing grease all over it, sorry to whoever's gas station we left this thing at, but uhhhhhh, yea, at that point we had to destroy something, and you were just unfortunate enough to have our trailor break down when we stopped at your station, Hope you guys can end up getting more use out of that piece of crap then we did at least!! Bye bye Traylurch, you were a horrid trailor and we won't miss you.
So what do we learn from this friends, never leave your gear alone in Newark, Never expect hotels to have souls, and if you have a problem, (Like a broken Trailor), piss all over it and leave it for the good folks in Cleveland, OH to deal with! At least we still have a show today in Nashville, that should raise our spirits. HA! Ohwell, live and learn right? We can only hope next time we are a bit more prepared.
~Peace, Love, and Good Vibrations~
Blain
So, what a time we have all had in the last few weeks. . .what a time. The south potion of the tour went VERY well, we got a lot of people on our mailing list, sold a ton of merch, had successful shows pretty much the entire time, and had no car/trailor problems. . .the second half. . .well, let me go ahead and recap. . .
So we start of with a fun show in Cincinatti, OH where we play well, but, I am suffering from food poisoning, but my motto is everything that starts of bad, ends up good, so I was in decent spirits. At the end of our first show, some asshole from the band after us yells at us to hurry and get our stuff off of the stage, so his band can get on stage and proceed to do awful punk versions of 2-Pac songs, sorry guys, I bet the audience just couldn't wait to hear 2-Pac die again! Poor guy was probably rolling over in his grave, but maybe I'm being harsh, they obviously have a reason to rebel, God made them idiots, so they will show the world with their Hip Hop Punk just how angry they are at their short commings!! Take THAT society!
Anyway, next we head to Rochester, NY where we have a really fun acoustic set and get a great place to stay complements of Andy's friend Jen, THANKS JEN!! :-) We also meet up with Mike Lombardo, get some good chicken wings, have some laughs, and so on. It was a good night, things were going well so far. . .then we get to New Jersey.
The Wyndham Hotel in Newark, New Jersey is where the shit goes down. If you're ever in town, do yourself a favor and choose another hotel, the people here have no trouble charging you full for your room after you lose thousands of dollars worth of equipment and have your trailer and Van Vandalized, thanks for the stay guys! (On a side note, I am pretty sure Satan was born in Newark, like 95% sure.) So at this point, we are still able to pull ourselves together and play 2 successful nights at Kenny's Castaways, which is a great club, read the preceeding blog to get a full rundown on the events of those nights, the first night was not one of MY better nights, but Matt and Brian met John Popper from Blues Traveler, so that was cool. . .I just ended stumbling through a couple covers I didn't know with the band that played after us. HA! It was hilarious, but also pretty embarassing I must admit.
Next show in Lewiston, NY gets cancelled because we have to deal with the incompetent staff at the Wyndham and try to squeeze some amount of compensation out of them since their "security" (I say that lightly) staff screwed up and didn't happen to see people carrying away tons of equipment from our van, BANG UP JOB ASSHOLES! :-) So, we spend that day driving to Alfred where we are treated to a great dinner, and amazing hotel accomodtions courtesy of our good friends Mike and Michelle Green, the owners of The Hott Spot! Which is a new tanning salon in Alfred that is pretty cool actually, I don't frequent tanning salons, but, it seems like a cool place. The show wass awesome and hilarious at the same time, we had an outside show with a dance floor of sorts right in front of the stage where a bunch of painfully underage kids, and adults were getting drunk off their asses and dancing and giving us more entertainment then we were giving them! Oh what a show, we got rid of a bunch of merch, met a lot of cool people, and. . .in all honesty it ended up being the only redeeming night of the entire second half of the tour.
Flash forward to Cleveland Ohio, later on the next day. Andy and Matt have been complaining that they have to pee for nearly 2 hours, so, even though we have plenty of gass to drive a hundrerd more miles or so, we stop. During refilling the tank, Abe just happens to walk back to the trailor and to all of our dismay looks down and sees that the A-beam of the trailor has rusted through and snapped, literally about 50 miles more and we would have caused a pile up due to our trailor flying loose from the back of the van. . .so thank god andy and matt almost pissed their pants, or we very well may have been dead and that would have just topped off the second half of this tour. Thanks to Andy's dad for making the 4 hour drive to come help us bring our equipment back home, and oh did it ever suck, but we had our revenge on Traylurch anyway!
We DESTROYED that thing, with the condition it was in, there was no way we were going to be able to get it home, so we decided abandoning it was the best course of action, but not only did we abandon it, we took 2x4's to it and destroyed the walls of it, and Abe, Brian, Konner and i all covered it in Urine and threw the bearing grease all over it, sorry to whoever's gas station we left this thing at, but uhhhhhh, yea, at that point we had to destroy something, and you were just unfortunate enough to have our trailor break down when we stopped at your station, Hope you guys can end up getting more use out of that piece of crap then we did at least!! Bye bye Traylurch, you were a horrid trailor and we won't miss you.
So what do we learn from this friends, never leave your gear alone in Newark, Never expect hotels to have souls, and if you have a problem, (Like a broken Trailor), piss all over it and leave it for the good folks in Cleveland, OH to deal with! At least we still have a show today in Nashville, that should raise our spirits. HA! Ohwell, live and learn right? We can only hope next time we are a bit more prepared.
~Peace, Love, and Good Vibrations~
Blain
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