2 Months Later

Anyone still reading this?
This have been busy as always, we've been many places. We've driven about 30,000 miles since we first set off on tour back in June, and I've felt every one of them.
We've driven through tornados, monsoons, wind storms, been run into by other buses, semi's, had our generator explode, numerous bottles of beer explode on the floor, amplifiers burning out, and now, last night, our keys were locked in the bus. Somehow even though we have 2 sets, no one had either set, and we ended up having to get the lock drilled out of the door in order to get in. Now that's fun!
Throughout the month of October, we toured all over the US with Tesla. They are some of the coolest guys I've ever met, and definitely a great band. I'm sad that the tour is over, we finished up with them on Halloween in Hapton Beach, NH, but now we get to do our own thing for a couple weeks, then we spend a month on the road with Theory of a Dead Man. I'm excited for that one too! Towards the middle of this month we have a few dates with Egypt Central, and we are all DEFINITELY excited for that! If any of you are near one of our shows together, you have to come check it out.
We just rolled into Raleigh, NC, and I'm calling it a night.\
Good morning to you all.

September!

Well we have a few days off, so I get to hang out at my favorite coffee shop here on the corner of College and Michigan and hang out on the internet because my apartment was struck by lightning about a month ago, and along with my tv, dvd player, and desktop computer, my cable modem was fried, and since I am go so much anyway, I just canceled the cable altogether.

POP EVIL NEWS!
So we just had a couple shows this last time out, X-Fest in Huntington, WV, where we got to see our good buddies from Egypt Central again, and shared the stage with Shadows Fall and Avenged Sevenfold. Amazing show!
Moments later we found ourselves in Cleveland, OH, where Tony was trying to bribe a squirrel with crackers to get the squirrel to tell him where the pigeon went...
The squirrel just took the crackers and ran.
Video to follow in TourVid #5. Stay tuned to youtube for that! http://www.youtube.com/PopEvilMusic
We have a new mirror on our bus after the Rev Theory incident. It's fabulous being able to see cars on the passenger side of the bus again.
Thursday is the Allegan County Fair show with Daughtry, we'll see if he remembers us!
Also, it's finally confirmed! We will be on tour with Tesla for the entire month of October! We will be visiting some of the places we saw with Puddle of Mudd, as well as heading out west as far as Salt Lake City.
Tell your friends!!!

The Morning After... (Part 2?)

So almost moments after I put up that last post last night, our bus was hit.
Now this isn't one of those "crazy driver on the highway" stories, this one is much more ironic, and fitting of our history with this bus.
The place where we played last night was in the center of an old strip mall, so all 4 buses were parked in the loading area around back. It was kind of a big inlet, and the building came out on both sides, so facing the building, from left to right it went wall, Rev Theory's bus, our bus, space, Puddle of Mudd's bus, and Saving Abel's bus. Both Saving Abel and Puddle of Mudd had pulled their buses around front after the show for some reason or another, and the party was moving up to the front. Leigh, myself, Matt, and Dave were on our bus along with a couple Saving Abel guys, and the Rev Theory guys had just left our bus because they were about to move their's to the front. So we're chilling in here watching Super Troopers, as well as random Youtube videos, and suddenly we hear a loud crunch, and our entire bus jolted to the side. We look out the window to see Rev Theory's bus almost in T-Bone position with ours, and starting to back up.
So it seems that our huge bus that had been parked in exactly the same spot all day long, which also had exterior lights on on that side, was completely invisible until point of impact.
Hey, I don't know.
Everything got worked out though, and as an upside, the convex mirror on that side was broken already, so it was hard to see traffic on that side, so yay! That will be fixed at some point, whenever we get time to get the bus in the shop again.

On a side note, before this all went down, we were ust chillin on our bus when Wes from Puddle just barged right in with arms full saying, "Hey, you guys want any plates of burgers and fries??"
He has to be one of the most random guys I almost know.

That's all for now...

Sorry Everyone!

Hey everyone, we're in Albany NY right now getting things set up for
the show tonight.
Hopefully later tonight, or possibly tomorrow I'll get some pictures
up as well as all the crazies stories from the last week or so!

Almost Finished

Hey everyone, we had a pretty successful weekend here in Grand Rapids. We had a sold out show at The Intersection Friday night, which, might I add, was fantastic. Shot the video for Hero with director Jason Honeycutt, who shot the video for Somebody Like You. The footage is amazing, you guys are going to flip when you see it! Along with this fun-filled weekend, there was certainly no sleep to be had. Tonight we have a show at FYE in Rivertown Mall at 8:30, you guys can get copies of the new CD, Lipstick on the Mirror before anyone else! There will be posters, the band will be signing things, it's going to be a great time.

Wednesday we are headed on the road once again to the great state of Kentucky for the KEntucky State Fair where we will be playing with P.O.D. I'm pretty excited about that, and then after that show, we'll hit the road with Puddle of Mudd, Saving Abel, and Rev Theory for the remainder of the month. Hopefully there will be some sleep during that.

Stay tuned, there are more big things to come!