Back in Nashville for a bit. Preparing to head out this weekend for holiday shows in St. Louis and Indianapolis. Should be a good time. Been busy as hell here. Writing a TON. Finishing stuff for the new album, plus some songs for other folks as well. Should have a rough idea in the next two weeks of songs that we’ll be cutting for the album. I’m really excited about them.
I can’t begin to tell y’all how much fun this past week on the road was. Raleigh on Thursday was great. The Pourhouse is such a fun club. Great people. The show was good. We debuted our new ‘less musicians/more amps’ line up and boy oh boy, let there be damn rock! It was fun as hell. Afterwards Mr. Magic showed up and wowed us all with more card tricks. We’re trying to figure out how to get him on the road as our opening act because it will blow your damn mind. Rolled into Charleston for Friday and Saturday. Both nights were a blast. Totally pleased with both performances. I missed the Enemy Lovers both nights due to nap issues, but heard good things. I really dug BoxBomb who was also on the Raleigh show. I didn’t see much of them in Raleigh, but Friday in Charleston I thought they were very good. Heavy but chilled out. I enjoyed it.
Saturday we added Crowfield who I really love. The music is good and they seem like really good dudes. New rule: only cool folks on the road. ‘No More Douche Bags Tour’, maybe that’s the rest of 08, hell and all of 09! Yep, I like that.
I want to say how much it meant to us to have such a great response at these shows. The last year has been tough at times and we’re finally getting all of our collective shit back together. Surrounding ourselves with the right folks and the right situations. Funny to still be learning 10 years into all this. This was the most fun I’ve had onstage in years. I really feel like we’re getting back to where this whole thing needs to be. Y’all are a HUGE part of that. Thanks so much for taking this journey with us. I guess we COULD do it without you, but it just wouldn’t be as much fun.
ps……this beach thing is gonna happen every year, so if you’ve not done it yet, make plans for next year.
Special thanks to Bobby Ross and all at the Windjammer for always taking such great care of us. Bobby even loaned me and Blade a golf cart which we spent all day cruising around on on Saturday. We couldn’t tell if the funny looks were because we were driving the cart in places we weren’t supposed to, or if it was just cause we looked like two burned out hippies trying to score something on a golf cart. Either way, funny as hell and equally as hilarious. We laughed like 10 year olds the whole time. Plus Blade got a one armed sunburn from holding his ‘cruising position’ for too long.
We’ve also got our new touring vehicle in order. It’s quite nice not renting a van every week like we did for a while. We’re working on a video blog to give you each a nice tour of it but we’ve gotta come up with a name for it first. Some sort of superstitious thing. So if you’ve got any name suggestions, do let us know.
Well, I’m off to try and finish writing a couple things. Y’all be well and we will see you soon.
