Hi Friends!
Thank you all coming out to the tour and making it an amazing experience. And thank you for sending me your pics. You guys rule.
TIM & ERIC AWESOME TOUR CREW
Tour Manager: "Krinkle" (aka Kraaanks, Kroeger, Krunks, DJ Krinkle, Kranky, or anything starting with a K.) Also known by his family as John Mugar. He's a writer and producer on the Awesome Show.
Documentarian: "Beard" (aka Ben Berman) Ben is an editor and a producer on the Awesome Show
DJ Douggpound: (aka Doug Lussenhop) Opened the entire tour as well as running samples/video for us. Doug is an editor and a writer on the Awesome Show.
DJ Douggpound kicked some serious ass on the tour. Everyone should check out his act. He does a "remix" set where he tells jokes then remixes them with beats and silliness.
BOSTON
What a fucking mess. Because of Adult Swim's "bombs" we had to postpone this show. We are so sorry about this chippers in Boston. And we are working hard to come back asap.
NYC
Our first show! Holy shit! My stomach felt like I've been eating razors all morning. Lots of our BFF's were coming out. What if I peed myself on stage?
We performed at the Knitting Factory which is where T and I did one of our first live performances ever! We did Father Mulligan's class about 5 years ago as part of Matt Carlin's variety show. Felt awesome to go from the basement stage to the main stage for a sold out show. Kinda surreal actually.
Here's our first live bit of the night, "Old Lady." Tim comes on stage and sings, "here comes my lady." I stumble through the crowd towards the stage. Tim needs to help me up. I started really bumping into people halfway through the tour. I loved seeing angry dudes turn around to reveal a large old lady trying to get through.
Tim warming up the casio:
Struggling to get to my man:
Glad I wore my panties that night:
Looking for a hand:
Upright:
Smile:
Tim getting ready. He puts on 3 layers of costumes so he can rip them off easy during changes:
Look at all the beard glue on Tim's shirt.
Fan Video
PHILLY
Our homecoming show! Tim and I went to school at Temple University. Hootie Hoo! So great to come back home. We performed at the Franklin Institute. (yes, the science museum) My parents were in the crowd. They both wore leather jackets to fit in with the cool kids. I sang them a special song as our encore for that night. The song lyrics were, "This is my son. Just an average American son. Just look at my son. Aren't you proud of my son?" We put together a short video/cd rom that my mom could take home with her. It's a collection of photos of me growing up and then what I look like now. The purpose is to show how proud my mom is of me to her normal suburban friends without actually seeing what I do on TV. Anyway, the footage will be on the dvd. For now here's a couple of the images from the video.
ERIC GROWING UP:
ERIC NOW:
We ate some real deal hoagies at Chickies South Philly Deli. Krinkle was impressed which made me happy.
Philly Crew: (Tim went to bed early that night)
CHAPEL HILL
This was the first night I didn't real know about anyone coming out to our show. Who lives in Chapel Hill anyways? (besides college bros?) Matt Harrigan (our exec at Adult swim) showed up to party. Turned out to be a packed house filled with amazing people. Krink and Doug got us really lost on the way back to our hotel, which was a sports themed Holiday Inn. Perfect!
Our gross greenroom:
Band photo:
Our backstage setup:
Here's our second live bit of the night, "Keytars." It starts with some video of a band playing a kick ass beat and drum vamp. Tim and I are introduced and go into wailing solos. My instrument cable falls out showing the audience that I wasn't really playing at all. Whoops.
Getting into it:
Favorite photo from the entire tour:
Solo:
Things got a little messy:
ATLANTA
Time for BBQ! The Adult Swim dudes always take us to this amazing place called Harold's BBQ. I broke my no beef/pork diet to take part in this scrumptious lunch.
The show was awesome. Of course the live broadcast was cancelled due to legal bullshit. But they taped the show and it'll be available on adultswim.com someday soon. I hope. We hung out at the William Street the next day. Good to see all those bros and bitches. We brainstormed a new billboard with Lazzo. Child Clowns! Coming to billboards in May!!!
Our 3rd live segment was "Father Mulligan's Class." This is my favorite thing to perform live by far. It starts really slow and delivers such a juvenile payoff.
Singing the intro song:
Steven's sketches:
Listening to Father Mulligan's lecture:
We did a produced version of this back in the day:
http://timanderic.com/new_movies/tom_goes_to_school.mov
After "Father Mulligans" tim and I check in with each other about the tour. It's an emotional time:
I wasn't here for this, but I love this photo:
Here's some asshole who kept showing us the same magic trick:
In the RV:
SEATTLE
Tim and I are way into this town. We fell in love back when we recorded Sir Mix a Lot for TGTTM. Mix doesn't fly, so we came up to shoot the "My Big Cups" video.
We ate lots of chowder and smoked salmon. I had to sit in this tiny staging are for an hour before the show. There was no secret door to sneak around and do "Old lady" so I had to hide while people showed up.
Our 4th live segment is a live version of Uncle Muscles stars: Casey and hid brother. This may have been the biggest highlight of the tour for some folks.
Casey:
Dance solos:
Trying to get it together:
Instrument solos:
Fan Video
Casey's Encore
PORTLAND
Another mystery town for us. Do people watch Adult Swim here? Turned out to be radical as usual.
Our 5th live segment was a screening of our infamous "celebrity" video. We are never showing it again so feel very lucky if you got a chance to see it on this tour.
We wore robes while explaining the insanity:
Doug took this on our flight from Portland to San Fran:
SAN FRANSISCO
This city is beautiful! We did a very touristy thing and took a cable car ride. It was awesome! I may need to move here someday. Our hotel was in a hobo den though. Lots of sales on windshield wipers. Late night trips to Carl's Jr. Gross.
Our final live segment is called "Tim Heidecker Mountainbike Extreme!" It starts with an impressionist dance using silver tinsel. Then I introduce Tim and shit gets nuts! Tim does his "Great Wall" stunt using volunteers form the crowd.
My warm up dance:
Tim riding through the crowd:
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Tim's sweet bike moves:
Energizing the volunteers:
Body slamming the volunteers:
Getting the crowd HIGH!
Congratulating each other:
Tim and I signed many man chests:
LOS ANGELES
Our grand finale! We had the honor of Neil Hamburger opening the night. And TV Sheriff closed it out. Holy fuck what a show. Felt so good to come home to such a warm crowd.
LA crew:
We started doing a trivia contest as our encore. Whoever was wearing a "Rats off to ya!" shirt was allowed to compete. The prizes were penis drawings!
And we also gave away a few of Tim Heidecker's Extreme Mountain bikes:
That's it for now! See you fuckers in Austin and Boston!
XO,
E