The sunset drive through Virginia was elegant. My rose colored biker shades psychedelified the autumn colors and we listened to Creedence at a high volume as we cruised down a back roads route towards Harrisonburg. One thing about Virginia is you see a lot of curiously named geographical features. We passed through a town called Tightsqueeze, crossed under consecutive overpasses named Music and Buisness, stopped for gas in Lynchstation (wtf?) and decided to wait to pee rather than pulling off at an exit that simply read "Hurt". When we did pull off the highway and turned on our navigation system it gave us a direction to take "Trickle to Mule Station".We met up with our tight bro's Invisible hand at the Blue Nile which is a great club with an Ethiopian Restaurant upstairs and a bar with a stage on the ground floor. Every band member gets two PBR's and a generous vegetarian platter (Casey was pumped about this).
There were four bands: Invisible Hand, Eternal Summers, us and Preacher. Preacher is an interesting outfit. They were the local band and so they played last, starting the show outside the club where people were smoking. They stomped their feet and sang acapella then proceeded to march around the entire venue passing out playbill style pamphlets containing some lyrics and their set list. In between songs the frontman Johan litterally started preaching and carrying on about things that sounded vaugely christian but it was tough to tell if he was putting us on or not. We made a bet regarding whether or not they actually jammed for the lamb. They don't by the way. Their drummer is my friend Kenny's doppelganger. We'll se Kenny in Florida and I'll post their pictures side by side and let you be the judge.
Now we're in DC staying at Kent's folks house. His mom just made us sandwhiches and I am about to "jam" with Kent's 7 year old nephew who is bringing his guitar over here shorty. Tonight we play at Comet Ping Pong, a pizza and table tennis emporium. We have deffinatly not started roughing it yet but we know it's coming so we're going to enjoy the hospitality while we can.
Also, we just added a show in NYC at Bowery Electric tomorrow (saturday 11/07)
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