Introduction: Back On The Road....
So far so good. It’s T-minus one day till the official tour kickoff, and I’m already blogging. ....
.. ..
Welcome back y’all!!!! So over here at Fourwayfree we’d like to welcome those of you back who have been on tour with us before, and let any newcomers know that we’re glad you’ve joined us. A little about this tour to start off. We will only be covering about two weeks on this expedition across the country, but it’s pretty jam packed. Then when we get back, we will be playing several dates around the Bay Area at the end of May and June. It’s been about a month since our last show, which was at the House of Blues in ....Hollywood..... Special thanks to all of you who made it out to that show, especially our good friends Mallory and Conan who made the trek from Lafayette Louisiana just to see us play in a big Hollywood club. We’ll be seeing them again on the turnaround for this tour. ....
.. ..
That was a hell of a night for us, and we hope to be back there sometime this summer. Since then we’ve been relaxing and getting geared up for this trip. ....
.. ..
As I write this, myself and Cam are headed to ....L.A..... with Trailer Hicks full of stuff. We are getting a ride from one of our biggest fans, my dad; in his really nice motor home. This also means that this is about as comfortable as I’m gonna get on this tour being in a vehicle. Oh well. I’ve also got my chief roadie on the road to ....L.A..... with me, Jake. Unfortunately, he can’t go on the whole tour with us – something about having a social studies test next week. Bummer.....
.. ..
We got a little bit of a later start than I thought, because we had to wait for Cuz’n Steve to bring us his stuff from ....San Jose..... Cuz’n Steve will be going along on the tour at least until the ....Dallas.... stop. Although from all the stuff he put in the trailer, I actually think he is secretly moving to ....Texas.... and is using the band as a cover, and so he wouldn’t have to hire movers. I’ll let you know what happens when we get there. ....
.. ..
So for this tour, in case you never bother to read the really nice headings I labor over for this thing, let me set up where we are going. First, it’s back to one of our traditional tour kickoff spots, The Shore in ....Hermosa Beach..... I think we’ve probably kicked off at least three tours there on a Wednesday night and we expecting a great crowd as usual. Thanks to Oren at Listen Entertainment. ....
.. ..
Thursday we head down to ..San Diego.. to meet up with some old friends of ours at Glorified Records where we will be playing the hottest, newest music venue in ....San Diego...., The Marquee. Unfortunately, our time in ....San Diego.... will be short lived. We have to leave the show in S.D. that night and drive straight to ....Las Vegas.... so we can make out 8:30am soundcheck at the Monte Carlo Brew Pub. Somebody there has a really lousy sense of humor. But, Friday night in Vegas, will probably be really boring and uneventful I’m sure. (For those of you new to the blog, yes, that was sarcasm.)....
.. ..
Next we will head off for a Saturday night show in ..Flagstaff.. near the ..Northern.. ..Arizona.. ..University.., and Sunday we finish the first leg of the tour in ....Taos.. ..New Mexico...., back at the Taos Inn. ....
.. ..
And our reward for five straight shows will be the privilege of day off to drive across the panhandle part of ..Texas.. and ..Oklahoma.. to get to ....Dallas.... for a show on Tuesday. It’s sort of like a mini-preview of the drive we have back across the big part of ....Texas.... on the way back. Just as boring, but not quite as long. ....
.. ..
Our furthest (farthest? Somebody look that up) will be ....Lafayette.. ..Louisiana.... where we are playing two nights for the Ragin Cajuns. One night at Shakers and another at the first annual McKinley Street Music Festival. Right now we are going to hit ....Tempe.. ..Arizona.... on the way back, but we might fill in a couple of shows on the way back as well.....
.. ..
You can expect what you have come to expect from the blogs, a detailed account of our daily travels, nightly adventures, and shows. Plus, an update on the Fourwayfree Poker Tour, and I’ll probably have a couple Subway sandwiches (in case you were wondering or even care) (That was for you Pegggy). ....
.. ..So sit tight, I’ll be back with more soon.