Lets start this off with the disaster that was March 26th, 2005. This was the first day of Flee The Century's first tour under that band name. Wow was it somethin! First off, this tour was with the band "My Life With The Spaniard." Their bass player bailed from the band about three days before the tour. They decided to tour anyway, without bass. We had an old smelly van from the 70's along with a u-haul trailer. It cost all of us a lot of money to get everything fixed and ready to go including a lot of engine work on the van. With that being said, we had very little money between us for normal spending cash. I left on the 1 month long tour with $65 that i cashed in from Coinstar. Ouch. We left in the middle of the night with 8 passengers and were heading towards Northern California. We were all hyped up and ready to take on the United States. Then life came crashing down like a Kamikaze jet fighter. John Dibiase thought he was in the clear....so he took some ecstasy with another man (identity will be disclosed). Well, we made it to about Cheney, Washington when our radiator pipe blew open! Engine coolant sprayed all over the place. I was thinking "man, i knew this tour was too good to be true." It's depressing when your tour seemingly ends about 14 minutes into the first day. Then it starts raining, very hard. We are now stuck in a broken van in the middle of the night in a downpour and some members of the band are high as a kite. Rad sounding. Except we were in Cheney, Washington!!! Only a few minutes from our houses. One of the members had a Triple A card and a tow truck came to pick us up within a few hours. We got sent back home in a very dismal and utterly embarrassing fashion. We had our tails between our legs that night. I remember Jeremiah buying a 30 pack of beer and saying "oh well, at least there's beer." Drowning your sorrows is ALWAYS a great idea. This all sucked because we all spent a lot of money on everything and also quit our jobs. Four months of preparation. We weren't about to die just yet though. We decided to cancel the first two days of our tour which included shows with Tera Melos which later became friends of ours. Nick took the van into the shop the next day and believed that the shop owner sabotaged the pipes because of a previous disagreement of some sort. It looked like a hack job to me as well. We took it to a different place to get it fixed. Two days later, we left again and drove towards Nevada. OH NO!!!! Not again!! Yep! The same pipe bursts again about two hours into our trip. We are stranded once again in Northern Oregon. We get towed into some random town and i think a guy just wrapped a shirt around the pipe or something....not sure. We were stranded for about 4 hours. Damn, we just wanted to start touring but it just wasn't happening. We finally made it to Nevada for our first show. We hadn't slept for awhile. It was good to get that first one out of the way though. We all knew the van was still acting up. We then drove to the California coast. Just blocks away from the venue.....again...disaster. The same pipe blows again. Something is causing the pipe to malfunction but we don't know what it is yet. We decide to walk our instruments through the town to wherever the venue was....we really didn't know. How depressing. The only good part was that we did fun stuff on the beach and looked at tons of young blond college girls riding bikes everywhere. I know i was depressed, hell, i think i finished off a whole fifth of rum with Kevin in the parking lot of the show. I mean, it's pretty much the only way we were going to get to sleep that night since we were going to be sleeping in this very same parking lot in a few hours. More on sleeping in bushes and parking lots later.........and MORE EPISODES to come.....including the historic explosion of 2004.

If any members of either of these bands would like to weigh in on what they felt about any of these stories....please...leave comments below. That means you Neil, John, Nick, Jeremiah, Justin, Jordan, Kevin