gotta say it's been nice to be home. weather has been wonderful, the cubs have the best record in baseball, we got a new record deal, and the band is playing well. the rev/nashville tour was a great time. good people. can't wait to get back out there with them in dec. anyway, here's what we've been up to...
a few days after returning home we shot out to davenport to play the redstone room. such a nice place. it's in the upstairs of the river city music experience museum which is basically a shrine to music. little listening stations with photographs and information about different cities in the US and the kinds of music that came from those areas. good stuff. the show was fun and we want to thank our friends Jim the Mule for opening up.
drove home the next day and had a night off. matt and tim and nick went back out to chillicothe to see and hang with our friends Clutch and said those guys rocked the way they always do. hope to catch them next time they're around. pure rock fury. we had our own set out there at summercamp on sunday at 1pm. last year i think we played the same time and the same stage, if i'm not mistaken. the difference was that last year we played in san diego the night before and flew home after the gig in a drunken state to IL to play our summercamp set and had to play on rented gear while nick drove our stuff home from the west coast. we had been out with clutch for at least a month at that point and were exhausted by the time we made it to chillicothe. this time we were fairly rested and got to play our own gear and i had a great time. lots of folks for an early set. band played well. hung around for a few hours after and checked out our friends Phonograph from NYC. good to see and hear them.
and then last sat. we played in bloomington (which is kind of a rarity these days) at paulies and had a nice turnout. thanks to Pokey Lafarge and the Tractor Kings for opening. this was kind of our first night with our friend R Fish Carpenter helping out on guitar and vocals and some keys. we'll be working in Fish over the summer and bringing him out with us in the fall for The Places We Lived tour. the new record (like most of our studio stuff) is involved and has many differnt musical parts in the arrangements. having a fourth player will help us try to recreate what we did in the studio. anyway, he did a nice job and has already learned a shit ton of material. we learned the Kinks tune Victoria the day before and soundchecked it and played it toward the end of the night and it was a blast. hung out at Rob O.'s place until the wee hours and woke up the next afternoon and watched the cubbies win again and again and hopefully again tonight out on the west coast!
hope hilliary and heff had a relatively painless move to NYC this weekend; you'll be missed in the windy city. that's all i got. see you at a show sometime soon...
cheers,
ed
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I made it to the end!
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