Denver, CO

Hippies suck, a lot. I haven't seen a real hippy since I was fourteen or fifteen and attended the concerts in the park. But tonight they were out in full force, and we played on their turf, a real live hippy bar. So we show up and the club looks pretty nice, except there was Greatful Dead and Jerry Garcia posters and pictures everywhere. The first three bands sucked, sorry, but it's true, then we played and the soundguy was not happy, we were too loud for his hippy ears, too much distortion, not enough upstrokes. At one point Jeff asked for more monitor and the guy told him he would turn it up if Jeff turned his amp down, no deal buddy. After this comment I thought, Jerry Garcia would turn the monitors up, and Jeff, being the band mouth piece, said that through the mic, everyone, but the hippies, thought it was hilarious. After us was Showbread, and they had the same problems, but there was more and more soap dodgers coming in, we later found out they were waiting for us to be done so they could have their weekly jam. After the show there was one particular guy that was making fun of us and Showbread, so Jeff and John, the keytar player, went and confronted the guy and supposedly he wanted to throw down. Now I've never seen a hippy fight, just get beaten up, so that would have great to get in a fight, some hippies and the eleven people in both Number One Gun and Showbread. Hippies suck, again, stay away from any and all Phish, String Cheese Incident concerts or anything that is that shitty. Also, if you beat up a hippy, let me know, it will make me happy.

trash

So I just remembered something. Yesterday we were driving through western Tennessee and were stopped at a Taco Bell/ KFC, so you could imagine the crowd in there. So we get our meals and talk and eat for a while, then a girl comes up to us, maybe sixteen years old and she's got her eightteen year old friend and a baby with her. So they start asking why we're there and stuff like that, so finally she ask some sort of question, which I didn't think she was smart enough to do, that basically makes me answer that we're a band. Then she starts saying all the same b.s., "Can ya'll sign a CD for me so when ya'lls is famus I cun tell people I met you?"
All of this is said with a thick drawl, some words, I'm pretty sure, weren't real words.
So I tell the girl that we have one cd left, we ran out at a show, she says she'll buy it, I tell her twelve dollars and then she starts trying to get money together with her friend, then she pulls this one out of nowhere, she says "I can give ya'll a boob shot for the cd", none of us jump at that, we kind of start talking with each other, she then says "I'm just kidding" and friends tells us she's not. Anyway, this was our first time being offered to see boobs for merchandise, and from a damn teenager too.

St. Louis, MO

I didn't see Star Wars tonight, and I don't feel bad about it. I'll get around to watching sometime, possibly on video, I don't know. The BMG music club is a great thing, so many choices of cds I really kind of wanted, but would never pay full price for. I don't know how, but every night I end up wth my own bed in the hotel, some people share a bed, another sleeps on the floor and I get my own. The people in the room next door have a dog and it barks everytime someone walks by, I'm thinking about ratting them out to the front desk, but only if it keeps me up tonight. I'm looking forward to coming back home, two weeks left of tour, plus one afternoon home halfway through that. Wayne Newton is on tv, I'll leave you with that.

Tupelo, MS

So I'm in the south and it's been pretty nice, except for the lack of the internet, these southerners haven't tapped into the new century yet and purchsed wireless internet, except for this place, a Super 8 of all places. Everything has been going great though. The band we're on tour with have been super nice guys, all very southern and well mannered. We started this tour off with a nice little 48 hour drive to Birmingham, Alabama, or BAMA!, as I like to call it. The show was a little different, but we all loved it considering we'd been in a car for two days straight. Then it was off to Orlando, Florida, another nice little drive of ten hours and a time change, but this drive was well worth it. We played the Florida Cornerstone Festival which had about every band you'd want to see playing. The first day was kind of exciting, I can't remeber any of the bands off the top of my head, so I guess it wasn't that memorable, except for As I Lay Dying, they are an excellent band, I like them. The next day was THE DAY. We played, which was exciting and went pretty well, but the best line up was in the evening, starting with the Chariot. I'm not too into them, but one of our friends is playing drums for them, so it was exciting to watch. After them was Emery, Copeland, Anberlin, underOATH, Relient K, David Bazaan, Jon Davis and mewithoutyou, I was beat after all that, not to mention very sleep deprived due to the time change and the early mornings. Another highlight of the festival was the hotels. The promoters decided to put all 75+ bands in two hotels next to each other, so there was a lot of (for lack of a better word) partying going on. The first night us and Morning September thought it would be fun to get some beer and hang out around the pool, and everyone else had the same idea. Almost every band I knew was there at once and it was great. Leaving a festival is always hard becuase you have to go back to "reality", less people at shows stuff like that. It's not really that bad. We've spent the last two days on BAMA! and then tonight in Mississippi, and I've found that southerners are a lot friendlier than people on the west coast, they are kind of weird and some seem a little inbred, but they are friendly. We're acting like we're cool right now and are watching 8 Mile, Eminem is doing his battle rap, and I think we're going to have our own rap off after we watch this. and why do some people cover their mouths when they laugh? I don't get it. Is that Coolio? So not much more around here, St. Louis tomorrow, I'll think of some good stories to post.