Spring? II

So I feel a little bit early, but the bus is scaring me, so I'm sitting in the trailer scanning merch forms and I thought "Hey!  Why don't I continue that blog post from earlier today?"  So here I am, Listening to Pennywise and typing up a storm in the trailer.
So we wound up December with some shows around home right before Christmas, and then New Year's in Madison, WI.
After all those shows and miles in between, our trailer had taken quite a beating.  We spent the majority of January at home measuring some new on-stage gear and playing some garage Tetris trying to figure out exactly how everything would fit in.  After we got those measurements, we took a few trips to Lowe's and bought a lot of wood and screws.  I now have a floor to ceiling shelving unit custom built by your's truly to hold all of my tshirt boxes and cables and such, while Bobo and Blinker have more floor space that they can take up with all their large rolling boxes.
With that all done, we set out for a 10-show mini tour with Lansdowne through VA, WV, OH and so on, where we had the worst bus of our relatively young careers.  It seemed that almost every single day something was broken with it.  Hell, the night it came into town to pick us up, the batteries died and I had to jump start it with my truck.  On our way to show number 7, the engine felt that it was a good time to die and threw a rod through the block at about 7am.  The rest of that morning was filled with finding a rental van and a haul truck and then driving the two 4 hours through the mountains to get to Lynchburg, VA.  Luckily after driving back to the bus the next morning, there was a shiny new one there waiting to carry us swiftly away from certain death.
That brings us up to the present, touring with Otherwise, Man Made Machine and Lansdowne.  MMM left us a couple days ago, and they will be missed.  Hopefully we run into them again soon.
Any of you out there thinking about coming to one of the upcoming shows, stop thinking, just be there.  It is definitely a great bill and you won't be disappointed!
Ok the batteries are dying, I've got to pack up, but hey!  I'm gonna post this one in the morning, so the timing will feel a bit off, but just go with it.  ;)

Spring?

I'm sorry, everyone, I can't seem to keep up with this silly thing!  Now that we're in a running bus and steadily on the road, I think I'll have more time to get it done.  The same goes for tour videos!  I've got #18 in the works, but I can't seem to finish it to my liking.  Maybe I'm getting too picky.  What do you guys want to see in it??  I'm trying to get more of our behind-the-scenes type of stuff in there, but Chachi has been covering most of that in his daily videos.  Should I put some of that in mine to have like a re-cap of the highlights?  I feel like I have a lot of questions, tonight.
So tonight we're in Toledo, OH.  The weather has been very warm and sunny for us for the last week or two, it feels like we didn't even have a winter.  I can't believe it's March, already!  I guess I should go back to October and fill you in on things.
We were touring with Theory of a Deadman and 3 Doors Down and it was almost Halloween.  Right?  The rest of the tour, every show was packed and we became great friends with 3 Doors Down.  We all really look forward to seeing them and hopefully touring with them again at some point!
We'll be touring with Theory of a Deadman again starting in April, we're all looking forward to causing some mayhem with those boys again!  If we're coming to your town, you had better be there!  Remember to check out our TOUR DATES page on Facebook!
After 3DD, we played some dates with Puddle of Mudd and Lansdowne as far west as Missoula, MT, the others went further, all the way to Washington I think, but we were back home for a few days and then picked back up with them in Iowa.
I feel like I shouldn't do this, but I will have to continue this tomorrow, hopefully, because I have to go inside and sell some stuff!  But don't worry, there's lots more to share!  Don't miss out!


To Be Continued...