20081020

tour 1

so heres the deal. we are four days in at evergreen state college.. im gonna statrt at the begining.. four days in was a bad place to start. sooo about four days before tour james and me were in portland visiting our lovely girlfriends and were riding back the same day. james was gonna drop me off in tri and he was gonna keep going to spokane. on the drive up we decided i should go to spokane with him to learn bass for the songs cause i am filling in for will on tour. this is curt by the way. anyway, we stop by tri to get my computer and grabbed bryan. we went up to alexs moms house slash office to print our cds and make buttons. we ended up staying up all night making a million buttons and laughing our asses off. the next day we went up again to finish everything up when donnie from tacoma who was going to do our shirts called me and said he couldnt do them.. luckly alex is the jam and had extra shirts so we printed them up there. after four days of a little work and a ton of fun.. hah we got all of our merch done and were ready for the road. friday our first show was in richland. after hanging out with some super cool people we left for tri. echoes played some new stuff that fucking fucking ruled! josh had a bum ankle but it was still rad as shit. behold played and as expected.. thats super good, we played and had a good time then this band new tomorrow played and were so so fucking awesome! holy pis these guys were rad! for real be into them. the next day it was off to yakima. we hung out drank and kicked it all hard then got ready get nasty. pack of wolves played and were prety rad.. but the dudes were so so much fun! holy piss they were cool. ha. so yeah then we played alex came up and jammed out.. it was killer. then we behold played and kids banged there fucking heads soo so hard. it was unreal. after setting up for quite some time thee letting forth of fire played. i was blown away with these guys and gals. i had heard a ton about them but had never heard them.. wasnt quite what i expected but i was super siked on it. day three we headed out to tacoma and found out energy dropped off the show. bummer but its cool cause the other bands were the jam! life in hand form canida played first and were wayy too good. real cool guys and dope music. us and behold played i dommed alex with the head of my bass while playing with behold and go the mic stuck in the cealing, jeremy and alex came up and sang. shit got a little rowdy but fun. oh yeah rebuilt played before all that.. for some reason i thought it was after us. anyway last time we were gonna play with them they had to drop the show so i was pumpped to finaly see them. finaly vanguard played. those dudes have so much energy! holy piss. not only are they hella nuts they are the nices guys we have ever met. after the show we wnt to some sheries like place and some people got some food and we played quarters. it was an interesting mix of personalites. hah. so yeah now were in evergreen state college playing pool till the show. cool deal. be good.