So we’re about 2 weeks or so into our little adventure. I’m currently in Vegas enjoying the first real solid internet connection we’ve had in our RV and it’s HOT here, 105. Charles and his brother got a room at Mandalay Bay (same spot where I’m playing tonight) so we’ll be enjoying the pool before too long but I wanted to hit some highlights if the last few weeks. We’ve been across 9 states, played a bunch of shows and in general are figuring out how to settle into life on the road. I’m probably most surprised at how many things are the same, once we have our running water, electricity, cable TV and internet hooked up, we pretty much do what we’ve been doing all along, just in a smaller space. If you’d like to see more pics from the tour click on our Flickr feed that’s in the sidebar.

Boise, Idaho

Boise is my hometown so I was really looking forward to this gig. It was at the Visual Arts Collective a cool newer venue run by my friends Annaliesa and Sam, plus my old business partner Steve Fulton, has the studio we used to run together, Audio Lab, in a new space attached to the VAC. It’s absolutely gorgeous and we did some recording there in late August. Here’s some pics from that.

Couer d’Alene, Idaho

This gig was interesting because they had a very unusual booking policy. In this case RR got a Saturday night here but it was up to us to find 2 – 3 other bands to play with us. I proved to be really difficult to do that but a couple of bands came through and we had a pretty good gig, except that no one was there. Not surprising considering our drawing power in Couer d’Alene. We asked the guy why he booked that way and he said that it was important to get the bands talking to each other and that’s how you make a scene is when everyone is pulling together to make successful shows. I see the merits to his idea but it seems like business suicide, leaving it all up to the bands, as evidenced by the lack of turnout for the gig. we still played a good show and got a really good live recording of ourselves. Not too many pics but this extremely drunk girl drew our attention with her pole antics.

Ashland, Oregon

We had a great show in Ashland. This Oregon town is breathtaking and downtown Ashland hosts one of the largest Shakespeare festivals in the world so it’s crawling with people. We played at the Caldera Tap House in downtown and fortunately we had some girls (Chelsea, Kelsey, and Brittany) who had seen us in Seattle so they rallied some friends and there was a decent crowd to start with and we killed it. We started the set with some dueling pianos, went into out original set and closed out the night taking requests. The show and the crowd were a blast, can’t wait to go back.

This gentleman came in the bar wearing a lovely red evening gown with some beautiful black heels, and a wig that badly needed some combing. He and a bunch a friends were dressed in their finest evening wear celebrating his 50th birthday. We got him up on the piano and Ron, who was working with Charles and I that night decided it was good idea have him get on his back and do the alligator dance from “Animal House”. If you’ve never seen the alligator it’s when you lay on your back and wave your arms and legs around like you’re trying to roll over. This is not a good dance to do when you’re wearing a ball gown, but hey it’s a party, and he was a good sport. When he got on his back his dress came up and revealed the diaper he was wearing and a collective moan came from the audience as the image was burned in their retinas forever. You’ve seen it, you can’t unsee it. Thankfully someone had the where with all to have their camera out so we could all enjoy it. We did a dance remix of of one of our songs to honor this gentleman and this fine piece of photography.

Enjoy the remix in the player below. You can download it into your ipod for free just by clicking the ‘download’ in the player.

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Charles looking pretty rock star-ish

Miguel looked good too

Dancing in the parchute