Tour Recap: Philadephia, PA – June 12th
Jun 22, 2009 - News
Thursday night/Friday morning was our second stop at a Denny’s for the tour. It actually took us a bit to find one. Some of the locations that came up in the GPS, well, there just was not a Denny’s there. Who knows. Anyway we found one around 3am, we ate our food, parked the van at a nearby lot and got ourselves a bit of rest.
Tour Recap: Raleigh NC – June 11th
Jun 20, 2009 - News
We arrived at the Volume 11 Tavern in Raleigh, NC on Thursday June 11th around 11am. (That’s three 11′s!… wait… 311? booo. Haha.) About 1/4 mile away from the venue Paul had a “Dukes of Hazard” flash back and tried to launch the van off of the railroad track rise/bump in the road. We didn’t get any air, but it was damn funny. It was totally on accident, and to his credit the bump was way, way bigger than it looked on the approach. Besides, that was just the beginning of our driving adventures in Raleigh… keep reading!
Tour Recap: Alexandria VA – June 10th
Jun 18, 2009 - News
We headed out of Columbus OH on Wednesday June 10th at approximately 11am or so, although we hoped to leave at 10. We were slow to get up. But on the way we stopped at the local McDonald’s for some foodage, then got on our way to Alexandria, VA. Approximately a 7hr drive. While setting up the shows I did my best to try and keep the driving to a minimum. Say 4 – 5 hrs at the most. I wanted to hit as many new areas as possible to try and maximize the exposure, but at the same time keep the driving at a reasonable level. And for the most part I was able to keep the driving distances to about those numbers. However, Columbus to Alexandria was one of they days where the driving was a tad more. The other was Raleigh, NC to Philadelphia, PA, which was also 7hrs.
Tour Recap: Columbus OH – June 9th
Jun 17, 2009 - News
So as I mentioned in the last post, we arrived in Columbus OH around 8am. And my Aunt and Uncle were very, very kind to let us shower and pass out at their place for the day. AND… they even let us come back to their place after the show that night! So Tuesday was our rest, shower, sleep, day of the tour. While it would have been nice to be able to hang around and talk with the family more, the rest was very much needed! We even watched “Spinal Tap” and they fed us spaghetti before sending us on our way to the show. YUM! During the day I received a message from My Latex Brain that unfortunately due to a family emergency they were unable to play that night. So it was going to be just STREAK and Everlasting God Stopper. Still made for a good show though.
Tour Recap: Lansing MI – June 8th
Jun 15, 2009 - News
I realized that the last post titled Lansing MI wasn’t really about Lansing at all. haha! So I am going to hit up Lansing MI on this one.
Macs Bar in Lansing MI was a very cool venue. The staff was extremely nice and willing to help. When the bartender/manager saw us loading in the TVs, he asked if we wanted more for the live show. Apparently he uses some images during his band’s set as well. So he and I took a walk into the basement, and sure enough there was at least 8 more TVs. We had 4 already (3 for the crowd and 1 for Paul’s visual monitor), we only brought up another 4 TVs. But it made for 7 TVs in all towards the crowd, and quite a site on stage! [video to uploaded soon]
Lansing MI – Tour Update
Jun 8, 2009 - News
Last night was a bit of a bummer. As I mentioned we rolled into N. Canton OH pretty early in the AM. Spent the day working on finding local music and such shops to do some extra last minute promoting. Not sure what time, but maybe 7-8pm or so we headed into Sadie Rene’s. When we walked in we were pretty excited. The stage looked really cool, there was plenty of room. Plus a nice area right in front of the stage for people. Buffalo NY, as cool as it was, was not necessarily set up for a live show such as ours. But we rocked it! So walking into Sadies, which definitely is set up for live rock, was very exciting. Then talking to the bartender/manager, we find out that ALL 3 local acts bailed on the show!! One a few weeks back, and the other two just recently. And without a draw the club didn’t really want us to play. On of my 1st thoughts was of course… what the hell?!?! Damn local bands. AND… if the 2 locals just canceled, wouldn’t the promoting they were doing have still brought people? Oh wait, what was i thinking, they didn’t promote. Silly me. So basically, if we played, with no draw, they still have to pay the sound guy, and they lost money. Which I can understand. And sadly at this point we have zero draw there. Well, turns out one of the members of one of the most recently canceling bands showed up. And he gave us this long sob story about how his guitar player just bailed and bla bla bla. And that when the other local found out the problems they quite the show. What the deal was with the 1st one, who knows. Weak all around. Oh well. Shit happens. We’ll just make sure to add those bands to our list of “KONG” bands. hahaha 
