On the way to Fort Worth, TX. Tonight we play our first show at a joint called Lola’s; it looks like a cool place so hopefully this will be the first of many gigs to come. Earlier this week we played a show at the historic Gruene Hall and I gotta tell ya it was really great. Gruene is one of hose places that almost always has a good crowd no matter what, this especially rings true during the summer months. Not to mention that the venue itself is just oozing with character. I mean, Gruene has been open for like a thousand years or something…translation = its cool!!!
I didn’t get a chance to do one of these blog deals last week, so I guess now is as good a time as any to catch ya’ll up on some of our past experiences. Actually that last sentence is a flat out lie. Of course I had the “opportunity” write a blog, however it was an opportunity that went unfulfilled. I’m going to blame my lack of productivity on the stomach bug that was making its way around the band last week. As a result I spent all of my time consumed with fear that I would catch it, that is until I got it, after which I spent all of my time…uh, lets just say, “losing weight quickly”…and once it was gone I spent what was left of my time fearing that it would make a sudden return. Since I have the rare opportunity to appoint responsibility for said stomach bug on some poor defenseless bastard, I think I’m going to place the blame squarely on Mike Williams (twitter.com/3leafent). What an ass!!! Side note: If you’re going to be really sick in a hotel, make sure and get really sick in a nice hotel. I can guarantee that you don’t want to be praying to the porcelain gods in a Super 8, or any hotel that has a number included in its name (Motel 6 ahem…). Nope, be like me. When I throw up I do it in style, at the Hyatt Place Hotel in the Fort Worth Stockyards. Hey, I could be their spokesman.
For the most part last week was pretty good. We played with No Justice on Wednesday night and, although there was a serious threat of rain, we still had a great crowd and a great time. After the show we hoofed it down to Fat Daddy’s where there was a band called Six Market Boulevard playing. They were a pretty good band, plus they did a cover of Usher’s “Nice & Slow” (my favorite song in 6th grade). As an added bonus the bar was selling Tecate’s for $1. All in all not too bad. The next night we played at Schoepf’s BBQ in Belton, a gig that got cancelled due to rain, then un-cancelled, then re-cancelled, and then un-cancelled again, or something like that. They haven’t had music for long over there, but judging by the setup they have and the crowd that they pull in, it doesn’t seem too far fetched to say that this place is gonna have music for a while to come. As luck would have it we weren’t able to play on the huge stage outside because of the weather. Instead we had to settle for setting up inside the restaurant in a corner, but it was still a great time and we look forward to being back next year. On Friday night we played the Silver Saloon in Terrell, TX. This was our first time at the Silver Saloon and it turned out to be a really cool place. It was fancy too; hell so fancy that they even had a dress code, and this dress code had more than just a couple rules on it. Seriously though, this thing was detailed, in fact I think about half the band was not in compliance, but hey, we’re rebels and sometimes we don’t even have a cause, so watch out man!!! Saturday night we played Cheatham Street Warehouse in San Marcos, it was a bit of a slow night, but that will happen at CSW, especially in the summer. On the plus side the absence of a large group of people afforded us the opportunity to have some fun with our buddy Bobby Duncan, at the expense of his monitor mix. To make a short story shorter, Bobby got some unexpected hormonal accompaniment.
Well, I think that is about all of the things I can remember. I would like to apologize to any English Majors who are reading this as by now you have probably figured out that punctuation is not really my “bag”. Anyhow, I’ll leave you with a little piece of information that we picked up in Corsicana last week. Ready? OK, here it goes. Prosperity Bank was voted the fourth best bank in America by Forbes Magazine. That’s right fourth best, a fact that the Corsicana branch appears to be mighty proud of. So if you are looking to get down with a new bank, and you’ve already been denied from the first three, look no further. Prosperity Bank is the clear and logical choice. I’m out.
-Dongo
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