Last couple of days have been really cool. St. Louis and Chicago have been two of my favorite cities on the tour thus far. St. Louis reminds me of Boston a hell of a lot and Chicago is all sorts of New York.
We played a place on Olive St. in St. Louis called Two Cents Plain. The guys running it were dead cool and dead nice! We hung out and watched South Park with them. Turns out they know the dude from the "What, What In The Butt" video. No lie. That happened to be the South Park episode on at the moment. The place is also 16+ which scores big points with a band that still remembers being underage and wanting to desperately to see live music.
Chicago... the minute we drove in I felt good about the show. Ross and I spent a while talking to the guys in Overhang. Great, nice fellows and their bass player even lived in Boston for a while. After that, Ross, Roy and I went exploring the area. The Note is in a place called Wicker Park. Right across from us was another club called the Double Door and further down the way was the Subterrenean. Very cool, hip area including a tequila bar called Salud which we all that quite appropriate. Also, might I say how cool the sound guy at the Note was. Excellent sound all night.
Both shows were a lot of fun and I can’t believe checking out of hotels, driving 5 hours, checking into new hotels and playing gigs will end in a couple of days. I won’t know what to do with myself when I get back. But I know when I see that Citgo sign in the distance it’ll be all right.
But now... a message from Ross...
-- Jen
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Wow. My first blog ever!! And they won’t even give me a full one, I have to split it. This is bogus.
Actually, I don’t think I’m quite ready to be the exclusive writer of a blog. I spend all my energy writing the mailing list, anyway.
In any case, I just wanted to send some love to all the great people helping us along the way on tour. I’m having a great time. Every night is a new adventure (after the five hours of driving...), and we’ve met a lot of great people along the way.
I’m exhausted, I’m filthy (I brought 4 t-shirts for the whole trip), and I’m loving every second of it. The best part about playing in cities that are so far apart every night is that you get to wear the same clothes at every show and no one will ever know. I’m sticking by that.
Here’s to not looking forward to coming home (except to play with Harris on the 24th at O’Briens!!).
Off to Phili!!
Ross
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Actually, this is Ross’ second blog. What a loser.
-- Henry
We played a place on Olive St. in St. Louis called Two Cents Plain. The guys running it were dead cool and dead nice! We hung out and watched South Park with them. Turns out they know the dude from the "What, What In The Butt" video. No lie. That happened to be the South Park episode on at the moment. The place is also 16+ which scores big points with a band that still remembers being underage and wanting to desperately to see live music.
Chicago... the minute we drove in I felt good about the show. Ross and I spent a while talking to the guys in Overhang. Great, nice fellows and their bass player even lived in Boston for a while. After that, Ross, Roy and I went exploring the area. The Note is in a place called Wicker Park. Right across from us was another club called the Double Door and further down the way was the Subterrenean. Very cool, hip area including a tequila bar called Salud which we all that quite appropriate. Also, might I say how cool the sound guy at the Note was. Excellent sound all night.
Both shows were a lot of fun and I can’t believe checking out of hotels, driving 5 hours, checking into new hotels and playing gigs will end in a couple of days. I won’t know what to do with myself when I get back. But I know when I see that Citgo sign in the distance it’ll be all right.
But now... a message from Ross...
-- Jen
============================
Wow. My first blog ever!! And they won’t even give me a full one, I have to split it. This is bogus.
Actually, I don’t think I’m quite ready to be the exclusive writer of a blog. I spend all my energy writing the mailing list, anyway.
In any case, I just wanted to send some love to all the great people helping us along the way on tour. I’m having a great time. Every night is a new adventure (after the five hours of driving...), and we’ve met a lot of great people along the way.
I’m exhausted, I’m filthy (I brought 4 t-shirts for the whole trip), and I’m loving every second of it. The best part about playing in cities that are so far apart every night is that you get to wear the same clothes at every show and no one will ever know. I’m sticking by that.
Here’s to not looking forward to coming home (except to play with Harris on the 24th at O’Briens!!).
Off to Phili!!
Ross
======
Actually, this is Ross’ second blog. What a loser.
-- Henry
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