We drove to Chicago, which was a much bigger city than I remember. The show was a nightmare. I broke a string on the opening song which led to one malfunction after another, the new tuner I'd bought to replace my broken TU-2 broke, guitars were falling out of tune left and right. It was bad. We sacrificed Mustachio to Chicago after the show and left him in the alley. It was sad but it was time.
We started driving immediately after the show and made it across the Mississippi to Iowa. Napped in a gas station parking lot and drove all the way across Nebraska and halfway through the Rockies. The mountains were snowy and lit up by a giant full moon, but the only weather we hit was a light rain. Stayed at a motel, then woke up and drove the remaining 900 miles to LA. Tour #1 complete.
The numbers: 5,964 miles driven. 5,700 miles flown. 14 performances. $0.00 made.
The cities (in order) where we played: Denver CO, Omaha NE, Rock Island IL, Indianapolis IN, Newport KY, New York NY, Los Angeles CA, New York again, Boston MA, Toronto ON, Detroit MI, Chicago IL.
The final photos:
Jason the Cider Pirate (Detroit):
Me & a cider donut:
The cider mill:
This cat cursed our Chicago show:
The opening band playing for the bartender:
Driving into Denver:
Did you know they still sell candy cigarettes?
Jason finding a clean spot to relax
Utah Canyonlands:
Driving out of Vegas:
We started the tour at Mad Greek with Josh. We ended it there with Jason.
When we arrived back in LA, everyone was wearing Halloween costumes and getting ready to go to Saturday night parties. We all went to sleep.
3 comments:
Congrats on your first tour and the AMAZING article in the LA Times last Thursday! It may have been a rough Chicago show but your karma was still going strong back home! California is glad to have you back.
My friends and I missed you on your stop in Denver.
You're one of our most favorite, and most influential bands to us. We would like you to know that.
If we were 21, we'd have been up there in an instant. Try and play somewhere that is not a bar for us next time, please?
I recommend the Black Sheep. Easy, and it's a cozy little venue. It's in Colorado Springs, but a lot of bands stop by there.
Thanks for everything. You guys help me so much.
-Spencer
Oi. It's Dillon! Spencer, Jacob, and I reeeeeeeeaaaaaally want you to come back to Colorado. You hear this from us a lot, but... hey, we love you!
Lemme tell you about our band practice tonight. We were singing Eucalyptus and Emily all out of key and tempo. Then we plugged a mic into a whammy pedal and breathed into the mic and made cool angry cat sounds. Jacob was beating on a mandolin the whole time so we called it "Bongo-angry cat-Eucalyptus."
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