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Colin Gawel Notes 4/05/09
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It’s 5:30 pm and I am sitting in the East Bay Meeting House Bar and Café in ....Charleston.., ..S.C..... The large front windows are open onto ....East Bat Street.... letting the cool, misty sea air easily float in from the ....Cooper.. ..River.... which is only one block away. We have a gig on ....Mt... ..Pleasant.... tonight so I am drinking a large iced coffee before meeting up with the guys for an 8 p.m. sound check.
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The combination of not-so-great weather and Watershed’s “professionalism for the sake of professionalism” work ethos are making it surprisingly easy for me to not miss sitting on the rooftop bar of the Vendue Inn which is but a half of block away. Sipping beers watching the sun set over ....Charleston.... harbor, surrounded by Church Steeples stabbing the thick Southern air is as good a reason as you will find to play rock n roll.
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Call it mortality creeping in, but it hurts to only have 2 ½ hours of free time to walk the streets of one of my three favorite cities (Chicago, Marquette, MI are the other two for those of you keeping score at home) Not to sound morbid, but you never know when is the last time that you will see your favorite place, or face for that matter. As usual, I work to frame this in a positive light and work hard to burn images into my brain for long-term reference.
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This trip has been more travel than I bargained for, but it is always fun to hang out with the guys. I laugh more in one day on the road than I do in two weeks at home.
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2 am- lobby of hotel staring at ....Ashley.. ..River..... Village Tavern was a cool place. Owner was determined to get us drinking and he succeeded. “Come on man, Irish Car Bombs just taste like Chocolate milk” “yeah, chocolate milk full of booze” We played “Can’t Be Myself” on the jukebox twice before we went on and then opened with it which I thought was a nice touch.
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Dave and I convinced a woman that we needed her help to throw Pooch out of the band and that we had bought him a bus ticket home. She grabbed him and pointed at us and yelled “those guys are NOT your friends!” at which point Dave replied right on cue, “Great show tonight Pooch”.
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Random:
Shows in ..Raleigh.., ..Myrtle Beach.. and Todd Bakers B-Day in ....Athens.... all were rocking. As was the KISS coffee shop (though in a “I understand why most the world wants to attack us” sort of way). The Travelodge in ....Athens.... was one of the 5 worst hotels we have ever stayed in. (including motor lodges which are actually kind of quaint)
I went 30 hours without spending any money until breaking down for a turkey burger in ....Myrtle Beach..... This includes a stop at “South of the Border” which makes it much more impressive. In fairness if the Mc Donald’s across from the hotel in ....Raleigh.... would have been open at 3 am, I would have wrecked a quarter pounder w/cheese, but it wasn’t so, I didn’t. streak intact. Hello.. Free hotel breakfast ++ my backpack for extra meals. Hanging out with the guys on the beach after the M. beach show is always fun for us land-locked Buckeyes.