Oh No! Oh My! vs. The Deadly Syndrome

Davenport, Iowa. The place closed after a bunch of kids got in a fight over a cell phone. Some of them were talking to us asking if we were in a band. Later that kid got punched in the head. Nice town.

Iowa to Indiana

Josh extremely proud of his first White Castle experience. White Castle is horrible.


Art supplies?



Driving across Indiana and Illinois was dreary, overcast all day. We're staying in a Days Inn in Anderson, IN, going to do a radio show in Pendleton in the morning, then driving to Cincinnati for a show.

Daytrotter, Rock Island, Old Man River

Last night we got to Rock Island Illinois, part of the Quad Cities (Rock Island, Davenport, Bettendorf, Moline). Downtown of Davenport and Rock Island are pretty much dead. Lots of boarded up windows, buildings for lease or for sale. We went to a show at the Redstone Room and saw A Sides, who did a Daytrotter session yesterday.






Daytrotter (daytrotter.com) was wonderful. Third floor of an old radio station; a tracking booth, an instrument room, and a sound room filled with vintage amps and cool keyboards, pedals, electric pianos. I played through a 15" Fender Deluxe. It sounded amazing. Thinking about swapping the Deville for a Deluxe.









The session went great, we played Ortolan, Animals, When it all went wrong, and This old home, all to 1/4" tape.

In the alley behind a coffee shop

Rock Island Illinois

This was written on the back of the comment card at Hardee Burger.

From Omaha to Iowa

The Slowdown where we played last night for 7 people. Jacob from the Faint (who we ran into in a store next door) came out. The venue was amazing. This morning we checked out their studio, also amazing, still the friendliest band/guys in the world. They're working on a new album.


Omaha is clean and beautiful, with a warehouse district that's being converted into lofts. It's also really really cold.






A nice kid directed us to some record stores, and we found our album at Drastic Plastic. Cool store. Josh bought the last one and gave it to the kid who'd given directions.




The poster for last night's show at Slowdown was in the "Free" bin at Drastic Plastic :)


We keep seeing White Rabbits posters and they're playing the same venues we are (they must be heading West while we head East.) We left them a record at Larimer Lounge in Denver, and they're playing Slowdown this Friday. White Rabbits + us would be a good tour.


Faint stickers and albums are everywhere in Omaha. The Urban Outfitters had an entire section of CDs and vinyls devoted to Bright Eyes and The Faint. Pretty cool.


Chris drinking the most intense milkshake in the world:

My dad used to have this exact Pepsi machine in his real estate office:


All afternoon we drove through Iowa, which looks like Field of Dreams America:


We found this great green hill to roll down. It's steeper than it looks:

The Great Plains

It's flat out here. Really, really flat.

The show last night at Larimer Lounge was OK, and the upcoming lineup of the place is nuts:


We stopped at Sinclair gas. My grandma still has an inflatable Dean-o the Dino that my Dad got when he was a kid.

Chris on the dino:

Me on the dino:

Arbor Day!:

Tonight we're playing Slowdown in Omaha. I'm there right now, it's really nice, in a brand new building on the north side of town (I think.) It's colder here than in Denver. Tomorrow we head to Iowa with a day off, and then do Daytrotter.com.

Across the Great Divide

Driving through the Rockies


Larimer St, Denver


Chris took this.

Frank Rules

Our friend Frank took a bunch of rad photos at Detour and put them up on his blog. Thank you Frank

Green River, Utah

This is the best thing I've seen so far: giant water tank sodas. Tomorrow the Great Divide and Denver.

The First One!

Hi, I'm Will. This is a blog. The point of this blog is to keep my friends and family informed (if they desire to be informed) about my whereabouts and undertakings. I'm in a band, we're about to go on tour for the first time, and I'm taking my laptop and my camera. It's that easy!

And so, we begin.

Yesterday we played the LA Weekly Detour Festival in downtown LA, and my guitar cables weren't long enough for the huge stage so they came unplugged twice. I found this photo on flickr; in it I'm running to plug my cable back in after the "Eucalyptus" drum part. I'm buying a 30 foot cable today.

And that's the end.

We're leaving on our first "real" tour on Monday morning, driving cross-country to play the CMJ festival in New York. If this goes like I plan it, I'll be posting lots of photos, brief updates, and wrenching your heart with true tales of triumph and failure.

Here's links for anyone who has stumbled on this and has no idea what I'm talking about:
The Deadly Syndrome
TDS MySpace page

Goodbye.