I need to do this more often...

So I've been slacking a lot lately, last tour was very short. We played with Egypt Central in Flint on Thursday, and then with Nonpoint and Kittie in Saginaw on Saturday. There were no setbacks with the bus this time, everything went pretty smoothly, however, I think I left a pair of jeans and a couple shirts at the hotel. :( Maybe I'll get lucky and they'll be in my car or on the bus. Who knows?
I had a beer explode in my face right as I walked by the drummer of Kittie. Hilarity ensued...
There was also a band in Saginaw called SupaGroup. They were really good!
Today is laundry day, tomorrow will probably be as well. Wednesday we leave again, but this time we are headed to Nashville, TN. We have a show there on the 31st, and then on the 2nd we are headed to Jacksonville, NC to play at Sand Jam at Camp Lejune. Really looking forward to that one!

Short Pause

I'm home for a wedding tomorrow, we'll see how that pans out...
The bus is in the shop in Holland getting all fixed up, and the band is in Youngstown, OH tonight. Tomorrow, they'll be at Val du Lakes Bar and Grille, about 6 miles away from where I am right now. We might have a wedding afterparty with the kids. Who knows.
So for the good stuff...
At the end of the trip, we played the show in Ft. Wayne, IN, with Hurt and Candlebox. I totally made an ass out of myself with some of the guys from Candlebox because I thought they were stage hands. Whoops! I had an 18" corn dog and some ice cold budweisers, and then we went to the bar afterwards and I got drunk with the guitarist from Hurt. Let's hear it for jagerbombs!
Sunday night, the show in Jackson, MI was a lot of fun. A few of the home crowd people showed up, and had a good old fashioned drunkfest. That continued at the hotel afterwards.
Monday our buddies Egypt Central will be in Grand Rapids, so we're gonna go se them, and then take a short tour with them before we head out to wherever we're going. I don't remember at the moment where the next stop is.

Oh Shit #2

Generator.
Video tells the rest.

Oh Shit...

First and foremost, I apologize for the lack of posting from the end of the last tour. I will get those up tomorrow. I'm going to be a sneaky bastard though and put them in BEFORE this post, so if you are reading this after tomorrow, it's going to seem like I didn't miss a beat.

But for the real reason of the title, we are on our way to Louisville, KY right now, and in southern Indiana, we drove through a bit of a tornado or something. Anyway, a huge gust of wind hit us and ripped the awning completely off. It then bounced off the roof of the bus, and landed a couple lanes over, which a car proceeded to run into, and the awning pierced the front bumper and slammed into the radiator, completely destroying it. So after an hour and a half or so of sitting on the side of the road waiting for the police to come and do a damage report, we got back on the road. Surprisingly, other than the whole no-awning thing, there isn't any visible damage to the bus.

Here's a video with my double chin explaining more:

The end of the beginning

Well the last show on tour #1 is over, we had a great time! Last night we partied with Egypt Central back at the hotel, got a lesson in cannonballs from the drummer, and drank way too much. Green Bay is an awesome town, if any of you guys are reading this, you guys kick ass!
Enough delay, here's some pics: