Blossom, Indy, Toby, etc...

I guess we got to Blossom around mid afternoon. The gazillion time s I’ve driven past that exit on the 271 I’ve never stopped here before. It’s a very nice pavilion, stained wood, and compared to what we’re used to BIG. My mom and her friend Diane are there. Everyone’s exited and at first the weather cooperates (that will change). There’s a lot of nervous energy and walking around for the sake of walking around. I’m hungry and I hit up catering right away. There’s all kinds of real-man food, I opt for soup and a salad and I sit down (alone) and in walks Toby. I hate to be ghermy…so I just wait ‘til he walks by and I’m like “hey man, I’m yer opening act, really want to thank you for this opportunity.” And he’s real casual and low key and like “cool man, are they treatin’ y’all all right?” and I’m like “yeah, it’s all good.” And I wish there was more to quote, .but that was about it. Which is great, given time I’ll always say the wrong thing,

It starts raining real heavy in the afternoon and that sucks ‘cause we got friends coming and they have lawn seats. Oh well. It clears up in time for our set and it’s actually sunny now (speaking of which Sonny Turcotte I’m SO Sorry we didn’t hook things up) and our set goes real good and I say some shit about Dirty Cowboys in Medina that gets a great reaction from Joe if not our audience and it’s pretty much a knock down, glitch free set. Ashley has some suggestions regarding my walk on and walk off. I take everything he says as true pearls of wisdom and just nod and say “okay” a lot….

I did have a chance to talk to Trace a little before his set and he was just a regular guy with me too. He and Toby both put on great shows and we watch from the sound booth and try and learn a few things.

Afterwards I offer to buy a few rounds of beer—which at ten bucks a pop teaches us another lesson of the big tour: bring yer own.

And I’m thinking about the Indy show after and it’s just like groundhog day, and I guess we were a lil sleep deprived. I remember one of the local; crew guy was our sound man at Eight Seconds last time we were there…oh Yeah..THAT I guess we got to Blossom around mid afternoon. The gazillion time s I’ve driven past that exit on the 271 I’ve never stopped here before. It’s a very nice pavilion, stained wood, and compared to what we’re used to BIG. My mom and her friend Diane are there. Everyone’s exited and at first the weather cooperates (that will change). There’s a lot of nervous energy and walking around for the sake of walking around. I’m hungry and I hit up catering right away. There’s all kinds of real-man food, I opt for soup and a salad and I sit down (alone) and in walks Toby. I hate to be ghermy…so I just wait ‘til he walks by and I’m like “hey man, I’m yer opening act, really want to thank you for this opportunity.” And he’s real casual and low key and like “cool man, are they treatin’ y’all all right?” and I’m like “yeah, it’s all good.” And I wish there was more to quote, .but that was about it. Which is great, given time I’ll always say the wrong thing,

It starts raining real heavy in the afternoon and that sucks ‘cause we got friends coming and they have lawn seats. Oh well. It clears up in time for our set and it’s actually sunny now (speaking of which Sonny Turcotte I’m SO Sorry we didn’t hook things up) and our set goes real good and I say some shit about Dirty Cowboys in Medina that gets a great reaction from Joe if not our audience and it’s pretty much a knock down, glitch free set. Ashley has some suggestions regarding my walk on and walk off. I take everything he says as true pearls of wisdom and just nod and say “okay” a lot….

I did have a chance to talk to Trace a little before his set and he was just a regular guy with me too. He and Toby both put on great shows and we watch from the sound booth and try and learn a few things.

Afterwards I offer to buy a few rounds of beer—which at ten bucks a pop teaches us another lesson of the big tour: bring yer own.

And I’m thinking about the Indy show after and it’s just like groundhog day, and I guess we were a lil sleep deprived. I remember one of the local; crew guy was our sound man at Eight Seconds last time we were there…oh Yeah..THAT was the gig with the open bar in the VIP section, and the Live Nation folks were there and they were really cool and everyone hung out side stage while Toby played, even Trace..and we had a lil party at the hotel to celebrate our first weekend out and that’s all acceptably haaazy.


was the gig with the open bar in the VIP section, and the Live Nation folks were there and they were really cool and everyone hung out side stage while Toby played, even Trace..and we had a lil party at the hotel to celebrate our first weekend out and that’s all acceptably haaazy.