Tour day 4, West Palm Beach Florida.. 8/25
First off ... to those of you who were actually looking forward to read this i would like to say sorry for 2 things....
1. Ive been lazy and didnt feel like writing really long rants and raves about nothing
2. It's not going to be all that interesting ..at all
Soooo we leave naples Florida at around 3ish or something like that.. We really wanted to have breakfast at ihop with our new friends but time didnt permit this... time is a fucking bitch ass sometimes... but we all knew that.
We decided to take ...route 80?? shit i dont know... alllll the way across florida to get into west palm beach... which i suppose turned out to be just fine... but it was funny because it felt like i was driving thru farmish suburbs the whole time.. which took a long ass time... but it was a nice change from just highways ... but ill have you know that ALL farm land looks the same EXACTLY where you are... kinda like when mike dirnt from green day said " you dont have to go on tour, cuz i did it for you... and it all looks like hockey arenas.... now i can have a similar quote... but i dont really have to say that quote anymore.. cuz you can gather what it might be...
So backing up a bit... i was on Makeoutclub and came across this chick who looked awfully purdy... and she listed Mtx and i dunno... lets say green day for the sake of the argument... so naturally im interested in talking to her... attractive girls mixed with mtx are good good things... So we get to talking and i guess i mustve mentioned that my band was going on tour and we wanted to play down there... so she got me in touch with Matt who ended up booking the show... more on that later...
but nora... yeah... hmm...good girl... really fun.. seemed very vibrant and nice.. and again...very cute :). Talked to her on the phone a couple times we actually made our way down to florida.. so i was excited to meet her... but i was also very nervous.. mostly because i have zero self asteem... but hey... whatever.
The whole way into west palm beach i was already regretting what the first meeting would be like.... hey wait a second... this doesnt sound like a tour journal at all hahahahaha.... ok ok... i know all you kids want the inside dirt on your favorite rock stars... so i suggest watching vh1... haha! that was a joke!! get it??? cuz its sarcasm bu.....ahem.... alright listen....
i was nervous ok?
We got into west palm beach at sometime... im forgetting... but i know it was light out.. so well say..... 7? sure 7. And there she was... i believe it was griffin who first said "uh oh guys.. she's hot" hahahaha!! I stumbled out of the car and tried my best to make it seem like i didnt really care and that i wasnt half as nervous as i really was... did it work? probably not.... we hugged.. and insert all the really awkward stuff that follows after that...
up comes matt... apparently he didnt even know we were still coming because i hadnt emailed him back... but i didnt know that it was an email i had to reply too cuz all it really said was the details of the show... but ok... seems like a cool guy with a teen idols shirt.. I believe that griffin now refers to him as "teen idols"... score dude...? he also tells us that some ska band was playing who decided to add themselves to the show... pick it up! pick it up!
After that some people park near us and it turns out be markybipolar!! haha nice... he says judy couldnt make it and i ask why and he said they broke up and stuff... crud :( but he was nice and i met eric from the come ons and his girlfriend.... who also said we could crash at their place that night... score.
we start loading in the stuff and settling in... this is the first show on the tour that has been in an actual bar/club place... and it was a nice change... bars arent my bag at all to hang out in... but when it comes to playing at them... its a different story.. i like how dark and mysterious some places can be... and its always fun to play... then again its fun to play anywhere.
its a little blurry now but ill try to remember as much as possible... i know i was in the backroom with the pool tables and stuff and nora came near me and tugged at my shirt and said she wanted it... ( the shirt!... sicko's!!!!) So... i was feeling less stressed about the whole meeting thingy... then she came out of the other room... and we sat at the couches together and just chatted about a whole lot of nothing.. but it was nice.... then she said she was going to the front... so she did... and i stayed sitting at the couch like an idiot for a little while... cuz looking like an idiot is better then looking like a desperate follower..... but eventually (1 minute) i did...
the ska band played and they sucked... sorry guys...im not into ska bands where the singer really tries to like........sing. its annoying... and the guitar player wanted to have the biggest nuts in the whole place by playing guitar solo's up the asshole... but i mean i dunno... blah...
then the ridicules played... ben weasel would be proud of these kids... real kick ass punk pop n roll type stuff. Good tunes and a good vibe... not to mention Matts really funny glam rock wig.... ( was this to help differentiate himself from the come ons? ) In pop punk of this vein... its VERY easy to suck at it... and its not that easy to be good at it... thankfully these guys pulled it off well.... then i notice the bass player
i KNOW i know who she is... but im thinking.... " what are you talking about self?... you live in Ny self.... this girl obviously lives in Florida and there is no chance that you know her ..." then i said to myself " you're right ,self" so i just came to the conclusion that i couldnt know her but that she just looks really familiar... but this girls got a green day sticker on her bass which gives her extra points....
Then we go on. the keyboard was giving us all sorts of problems... so that killed our set for a while... but then we get everything working and the sound guy says we can play 5 songs... im like... " thats like 10 mins"... " oh " he says..... " then 6 songs" hahahahaha
so we blast thru some of the hits that were requested that night by some of the kids at the show who knew them.... rock!! we opened with sweater and after that i have no idea what we played... but i think we sounded good....who knows... after we got off we actually sold some t shirts which was really rad...
After our set i went to the bathroom and changed my shirt cuz i was all sweaty and i HATE being sweaty... oh well.. so i wash up and get myself together and go back out....
ok this is the fuzzy part... i dont really remember anything here... prolly lots of chit chat, and people saying " you were good" and lying... but hey!! :) ok...
Then the come ons finally get going... apparently Eric had been drinking quite a bit... hehe.... they get on and they rock the house with snotty punk rock in a pop sort of veign.... but it was in your face and full of energy.... i cant compare it to anything... but this is the only time ive seen them so i will say that eric puts on a great show drunk... haha... and it was nancy and matt from the ridicules too... and i forgot the drummers name.... in both bands actually... sorry... but the point is.. they rocked
Then Billy Bolibi or something like that came on... apparently some of them had been in the Mute- Ants... who ive also never heard... but heard of... didnt they have a mutant pop short run or 7 inch or something? i dunno.... they were............fun? i dunno... the tunes werent there but the funniness and live show was there.... the showmanship was stellar... but they just didnt have good songs at all.... sorry!!!
we went to erics house after the show but not before getting some taco bell! whoo hoo!!! and at erics house it finally dawns on me that nancy is nancy from the green zine... this zine that her and this girl i used to talk to a lot named christy used to do together.... so i asked her if she knew what green zine was... or maybe i asked her if she knew who christy was.... i dont know... but yeah... shes like YES!! WHOA!! YOU'RE CHRIS STEFOS!!! hahahaha YOU'RE A REAL PERSON!!... sooooooo funny... me and nancy had talked on the phone like.. a bajillion years before .... weird!! but cool
some people drank, some people smoked, but most people just played darts.... oh i forgot to mention that nora told me to call her in the morning and that we were going to hang out ... cool... so i set chris's phone to wake me up at 11? was it? i dunno... but it didnt... i woke up like a half hour later and his ID said she called... so i went online and she was online and she said shed come and pick me up... rad...
she gets there and she gives me the west palm tour... it was nice ... i had a good time but i was also very very nervous ..... again.. and i dont know why really.... but whatever....
moving a long........West Palm was a great show, and great times... and we made some new friends which is fucking awesome......
we now had a 17 hour drive to Arkansas... or was it 22 hours? fucked if i knew or remember.... hahahaha
til next time.