And after Vermont we were in New Haven, CT where we played the worst show of our lives due to the fact that our instruments had been in a hot car and would not stay tuned. It was bad. But for whatever reason people liked it anyway. We had to sleep in the van on the side of the street right next to a red light which drove me nuts all night long...red. green. yellow. red. green. yellow. red. green. yellow. and it was stifling hot. not a good night. we toured yale the next day and pretended to be smart like George Bush. ha.
I'm a little foggy but I think we played Brooklyn next. We made a visit to Brighton Beach the day of the show where we rode the Coney Island Ferris wheel and played ski ball in the arcade. :) The show that night was interesting to say the least....we played the first 3-4 songs to a COMPLETELY empty room. It was ridiculous. Felt like we came all the way to Brooklyn to have a practice session in an un-airconditioned room. But low and behold some people showed up and it would up being a great show.
Next we drove forever to Chesapeake, VA. We stopped off at Chincoteage Island where all the wild ponies live whic was awesome. We spent the hottest night of our lives sleeping in the van and finally had to break down at about 2 in the morning and turn the car on so we could sleep in the air conditioning. The van only has those stupid windows that crack open about a half inch which does nothing in the way of cooling things off. We finished the drive to VA the next day during which we crossed over the ocean on a 20 mile bridge. there was a toll of 12 buckaroos to get accross the thing. (we spent over 70 dollars in tolls on this trip. how insane is that???) the Chesapeake show was interesting because the place didn't have a proper sound system so we had to play an acoustic set and yell at the top of our lungs. But once again, people seemed to enjoy it despite the less than desireable sound conditions. so if the people are happy and buy Cd's then we are happy.
Drove to Durham, NC where we played another acoustic set and met our youngest number one fan...Three year old Miles who had a temper tantrum for a C & A t-shirt. It looked like a dress on him but he could not have been happier. We finished out the first leg of the tour with a show in Greensville, NC at the Tipsy Teapot. Nothing of note happened there.
so tired and bedraggled we made it back home where I spent my few days off painting my parents porch so I could afford some food for the next leg of the tour. oh the joys of being a poor musician. more to come....
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Home again home again jiggity jig
Well I am home from the two month treck accross the united states with only a week break in between it all. I have survived and feel quite exhausted but incredibly much more informed and experienced in all things "music world." And I can say that after it all....I still want to be a musician! I know that no matter how hard this business is I want to give it all i've got. Now, on to other topics...The blogging has not gone as I thought it would. There is absolutely no time to update the thing on the road and when i tried to go back and remember everything that happened it was overwhelming! Though I can remember in great detail all the goings on of the tour, I will just give a few highlights. I think thats a better way to go about this. Just give you all a taste of the road. :)
I left off after the D.C. show I do believe.
Next came NYC. We payed...drumroll...a total of $25 dollars in tolls to get into New York City. Now is that not highway robbery...literally?? I was shocked. We had no expected to pay that much in tolls. But once we got in there, I realized to my surprise that I love New York! We had a great hostess whom we met in Atlanta, Kelly Swindell, bless her heart she let us crash in her place for a week and came to all of our shows and basically was our biggest fan. We are proud to proclaim that we did not get any of our musical equipment stolen while in NYC nor did we get a parking ticket. A grand feat, in my humble opinion. I got to see all the sights of the city that didn't cost anything, walking til my feet were numb. I street performed in Washington Square under that arch that I kept calling the Arche de Triomphe. I played 5 shows all of which went fairly well save one which was played in a rock venue (newsflash..we are a folk band. the crowd didn't dig it. but that was the booking person's fault not ours. they should have known better than to book us there. the end). Nothing to crazy happened in NYC besides crazy heat. About 92 degrees and humid as heck. Oh. one more highlight...the day we left I lock the keys in the appartment just as we were leaving. Andrew kicked a garbage can into the street in frustration and then we had to drive 45 minutes into the city to go retrieve a key from our hostess. Then all the way back to unlock the door to get the rest of our stuff. It was not fun to be me that morning. But we got over it and laughed about it later.
Vermont. A lovely state. We played our best show here at the Radio Bean. I got to hang out with old friends that I met in France. One of which, Francesca, invited us after the show to hang out for a day at the hippie commune where she grew up called Quarry Hill. This was a magical little place in the middle of no where in Vermont where I floated in a pond and talked with hippie people and ate all things vegetarian. It was a really funny couple of days. Everyone was great fans of our though and got our CD :)
More to come....its funny that I am still updating from August. But I can't just skip the middle and go to the end. I couldnt live with myself. Stay tuned.
I left off after the D.C. show I do believe.
Next came NYC. We payed...drumroll...a total of $25 dollars in tolls to get into New York City. Now is that not highway robbery...literally?? I was shocked. We had no expected to pay that much in tolls. But once we got in there, I realized to my surprise that I love New York! We had a great hostess whom we met in Atlanta, Kelly Swindell, bless her heart she let us crash in her place for a week and came to all of our shows and basically was our biggest fan. We are proud to proclaim that we did not get any of our musical equipment stolen while in NYC nor did we get a parking ticket. A grand feat, in my humble opinion. I got to see all the sights of the city that didn't cost anything, walking til my feet were numb. I street performed in Washington Square under that arch that I kept calling the Arche de Triomphe. I played 5 shows all of which went fairly well save one which was played in a rock venue (newsflash..we are a folk band. the crowd didn't dig it. but that was the booking person's fault not ours. they should have known better than to book us there. the end). Nothing to crazy happened in NYC besides crazy heat. About 92 degrees and humid as heck. Oh. one more highlight...the day we left I lock the keys in the appartment just as we were leaving. Andrew kicked a garbage can into the street in frustration and then we had to drive 45 minutes into the city to go retrieve a key from our hostess. Then all the way back to unlock the door to get the rest of our stuff. It was not fun to be me that morning. But we got over it and laughed about it later.
Vermont. A lovely state. We played our best show here at the Radio Bean. I got to hang out with old friends that I met in France. One of which, Francesca, invited us after the show to hang out for a day at the hippie commune where she grew up called Quarry Hill. This was a magical little place in the middle of no where in Vermont where I floated in a pond and talked with hippie people and ate all things vegetarian. It was a really funny couple of days. Everyone was great fans of our though and got our CD :)
More to come....its funny that I am still updating from August. But I can't just skip the middle and go to the end. I couldnt live with myself. Stay tuned.
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