Wow, time sure does fly when you're on the road! (that's my weak excuse for not writing this blog sooner. Just go with it.)
I believe you avid readers were left wondering what happened to us in Pittsburgh, PA. We showed up to the club, only to find out that we were booked on Open Mic Night. Sweet. So we did our thing, and watched some people do Pink Floyd and Dave Matthews covers. Afterwards, a guy liked us so much that he opened his home to us and bought us snacks. Also, he proposed to his girlfriend right in front of us. Seriously. We left that house with a bunch of Pittsburgh gear.
The next day we drove allllll the way across Pennsylvania to get to Philadelphia. I was excited about this one. Our friends Bearings are from Philly and were gonna play the show. Awesome. Even cooler, Hunter's dad Jess happened to be in the area, and he came and bought us dinner before the show. Things were looking up. 10 pm rolls around at Fergies. We are supposed to start the show, but Bearings has yet to show up. We eventually play to an upstairs bar with one guy in it. Bearings never showed up. I later was told it was a miscommunication with the booking. Ohwellz.
Since Philly was oh-so-cold, we did one of our patented overnight drives to Louisville, KY. The first thing we did when we got there was eat at KFC. Honestly, it wasn't any better than California's fast food chicken chains.
Now, this venue takes the lead as my favorite venue of the tour. The Phoenix Hill Tavern is this giant mansion of a venue, with 2 stories, like 5 different themed bars, and a few really nice stages. We got a tour of the place before we played. They told us it was haunted, but I didn't really get that feeling. The building itself is really old though, and i wish I had more time to wander in it. The southern graveyard located 10 feet away from the venue was a nice touch.
We've been rocking pretty hard lately, and this night was no exception. We got so into it that on our closing song (Better), Zeke threw down his Gibson SG...and snapped the neck. I believe there is also a cable Jack going through the back of the guitar. Oops. It looked really badass though.
That night, a girl named Kristin let us stay on her couch. She was super cool to us and the next day we watched a series of Christmas movies and ate a ton of pizza. You could tell we were back in the south because of that classic hospitality.
From there we drove to Cincinnati Ohio, to play at the Blue Rock Tavern. Nobody really showed up except some super drunk dude. He had a Misfits back patch on his jacket, so Zeke decided to play "skulls" for him. Well, the drunk dude wanted to sing it, and it turned into some weird karaoke thing. Afterward, he grabbed Zeke's guitar and played "cemetary gates" by Pantera. In it's entirety. On a clean telecaster. By himself. Drunk.
West Virginia was sort of a weird day for us. Our friend Brian Lutz came to the show from North Carolina, and his mom got us a motel room! The first one on the tour. When we called the Rock It Club that night to get some directions, I got a womans cell phone (we later found out that "it was either have bands or have a phone at this bar"… she chose the bands) the directions to get to the club were, "okay you're gunna drive down this here road, an it's gonna git REAL dark fir a while, then you'll probably see a big ol' white light, an it's gunna be flashing, that's the club."
We show up. It's a shack in the rural woods of WV. We are the only band that isn't metal. We are the only band without face paint on. We are the only band not missing our front teeth (not an exaggeration). The immediate decision is that we need to rock super hard. So we do that. Those people in that little bar had never even heard music like this before, so they were in total shock to see some California band rocking that hard to music without double bass drums and sweep arpeggios. And they loved it. The crowd was sooo into it. I think this show was the bands overall "WTF I didn't expect that night to be so good" show.
Since we had a huuuge drive ahead of us, we got up super early ( I didn't get to shower and was pretty upset about it). The drive to Michigan was a long one, but we had all day. Well, we thought we did. Until we realized that the main road that goes that way was down to one lane. Everyone in that lane was going 25mph due to ice on the road. We had load in at 8 that night.
Did we make it to the show?? What happened? Read the next blog I write to find out. That's right, I'm leaving this at a cliffhanger of sorts. Hope all is well with you loyal readers. We still love all of you. <3
-Jordan
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