Monday, January 4, 2010

From Texas to Colorado (via Missouri)

So here we are in Boulder, Colorado at The Danger Zone, formerly the Soulquarium. These kids here are super chill and just do awesome house shows in their backyard showspace which was padded and sound proofed. The road to get here was not a short one however.

We leave Abilene for Granbury, Texas. We arrive in this bedroom community/way out suburb of Fort Worth. It's New Years Eve so we partied with the people living there who were, at least some of them, self-proclaimed rednecks. They showed us a good time lighting fireworks till 4 am, lighting their lawn on fire, and peeing in the freezing backyard. We played a fun little show for the few people that watched the music and then we rang in the new year by playing Auld Lang Syne!

We took off for Plano the next day to hangout with my buddy Korok. He showed us a great view of Plano, Texas at this huge tower in this park. We then went to 5 Guys Burgers which was INSANELY GREAT! We had huge burgers, great fries and peanuts! We then preceded to Fayetteville, AR where we met the awesome Stuart and Christie. They were super accommodating and great to us. We then explored the University of Arkansas before our show and it was quite crazy. Their sports facilities were insane! We played a pretty cool show and then had a great chill sesh after the show with the people hwos tuck around. They told us how crappy arkansas was but how happy they were that they kept something good alive via their college radio station and the house shows. We went with them to Waffle House at like 1 or 2 in the morning and then settled in for the night.

In the morning (or around noon) they brought free hot dogs and polish sausages for us! Then we departed Fayetteville for Kansas City and our tourmate JB/All Blood. We passed Walmart-ville (aka Bentonville) and then we rolled into snowy Kansas City. We hung out in JB's house all night which did encompass a show in someones bedroom! We rocked the bedroom with delayed vocals and effected acoustic guitar. We got some cool comparisons to Neutral Milk Hotel and people loved the performance. We stayed up playing video games and hanging out till like 2 am till we all passed out.

The next morning we woke up really early and started the arduous job of figuring out a new packing scheme. We did this fairly successfully although everyone was barricaded into their seats and stacked with stuff. We made the hell drive through snowy Kansas City to the open road where we preceded to drive to Boulder.

Here in Boulder we arrived at the house and it was cool and laid back. Little did we know it would amp up when show time started and it turned into a good old fashion anarchist/radical kickback. We hung out and played card games and stuff with the people still at the show. We also did some jamming and watched some King's Cup which is really quite a fascinating game.

Today we head to Salt Lake City where some more punks await us and a nice mormon family has a house for us to stay! Hopefully we'll make a video update later today or tomorrow.

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