Monday, May 18, 2009

Four Lecherous Men and a Little Lady Tour: Recap, Part 1!



Like any proper tour, this one began with the mindless, random destruction of our equipment.

Our big blue van ("One of Many") has an interesting tendency to take on more and more household items, dirty clothing, and completely useless knick knacks (all collectively known as "junk") the longer it's in a certain band member's possession.  It is a phenomenal ability, really, and it leads to fun like the kind you see above...a stringless, hopeless, utterly value-less guitar is smashed (partly out of spite) by one Heart-thRob.  Spring cleaning, as they say...is an important aspect of van ownership.

The below picture displays perhaps the most exciting sector of rock band membership, the loading dock.  Such a professional operation as ours has lots of expensive, fully-functioning gear and it all needs to be carefully loaded into (and subsequently unloaded from) "One of Many" before we can properly rock any socks.  Notice Tom's excitement...which will not be mirrored upon our return to the space late Sunday evening.

Old Ironsides in Sacramento is a fun place.  We've played there before.  We laid some sweet pink stencils in Sac-town, sipped New Castles, and sold a T-shirt to the bartender.  The bill was a good one, we played in the middle of Ahoy and Starring Morgan Freeman, and like any great artists, took our money and hit the road.
We popped out several hours later in Eugene, Oregon, fully prepared to "pretend learn" a few songs on the porch, to "steal" toilet paper from the bar, and to "Lady and the Tramp" a few Slim Jims in the parking lot...

To be continued....

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