daveontour

End

2009-07-31T17:46:11Z

It seems that tour is finally over. I walked outside yesterday and just stared at my backyard I was so bored.

Marina left to fly back home to Albuquerque. Ramsey is driving up to Arcadia to visit his mom. And Jonathon left a few days ago back to Portland. So everyone went back to were they came from.

Tour ended kinda weirdly, half of us went home right after the last show. The rest of us took the bus back home the next morning. Except Chris stayed at Dean's to hang out for a while.

All in all I am positive that it was the most fun I have ever had in my entire life and I would do it again in a heartbeat.

P.S. I hope to embed photos into all of the entries, but I don't know how quick I will be about it.

Home

2009-07-30T18:55:44Z

We used the money from the van to pay for bus tickets home. We took the Vietnamese bus home. Apparently a bus runs from Irvine to San Jose Monday through Sunday. It's forty dollars and you get a sandwich, a water and a vietnamese newspaper.

The trip back was pretty uneventful. We got one stop and I got some taco bell. We held up the bus because we spent too much time inside the truck stop. The rest of the time I spent watching the Vietnamese version of American Idol that they were playing inside the bus.

Once we got to San Jose we walked a block to a Starbuck's and I called my grandparents to come get us. It was Sean, Nick, Jonathan, Marina and I. They old had a Saturn Vue to fit five of us in. I gave them directions on how to get to where we were but they managed to lost. Eventually they got here and we all cramed into the car.

We came to my house and everybody got to see my room. And my Nana was all excited about everything. Then we went and had a big happy to be home party at Sean's house. We had a sick BBQ with all my friends and lots of beer and it was tons of fun.

Nerdvine

2009-07-29T20:23:18Z

The next day we spent the whole day getting the van ready for death. We had to take everything out and put it into the trailer. Then it had to be truly cleaned out. I guess it broke down twice on the way to the car graveyard. And we only got $200 for it, $100 less then the guy said we were going to get for it.

Ramsey had to run back to San Pedro and pick up his truck so that we could get the trailer to the show in Fontana. Most of us just hung out at Dean's house all day. He bought us pizza and we got Taco Bell later for lunch. Then Delora, Dean's great girlfriend let us take her car to the show that was very far form Irvine.

She had an ipod full of really good music and I was in shotgun so I got to DJ. After a couple of wrong turns we finally made it to the show.
Boyz 4 Men played a bunch of new songs. We got some beer for a good price. But the show was some random person's house and it was some girls birthday.

Religious Girls played next and it was a good if tired set. We all danced but it seemed like nobody else knew what to do. But after they played cops came and we had to shut down the show. I slept all the way back to Dean's. Then when I got back someone passed me a pipe full of pot and I smoked it and went to sleep. But not after I stayed up till 3 in the morning drinking Cisco with Dean and Delora.

Death of a Friend

2009-07-29T20:11:01Z

The van finally broke down in thousand oaks. At least it stopped working in the parking lot of a mall. I cleaned it all out while Ramsey called AAA. The van was free to tow but the trailer cost $150 dollars to tow. We had the van towed to Irvine to Dean's house. The band and Jonathan were able to ride in the truck with the towsmen.

Ramsey called a bunch of friends, but ended up having his dad come all the was from San Pedro to get us. Then four of us cramed in the back and Ramsey forced his dad to let him drive. He drives like a crazy old grandma on crack. Or like any other girl from LA. But he got us to his house very quickly. We dropped his dad off, went in and changed and then we sped off to Irvine, supposedly an hour away. We got there in 45 minutes.

We ran around UC Irvine trying to find the show. Instead we found a giant Asian dance party in the quad. But we didn't have time to stop and party. We ran the other way and found them playing in a trailer and we ran in and started dancing. We only caught about 1/3 of the show but we raged the entire time. Also the trailer had no AC so it was about 110 degreez inside.

Finally we went back to Dean's house and got food and beer and had a good time with his roomates.

Santa Berbra

2009-07-29T19:54:20Z

Rachel and company had to leave early to drive back to Santa Barbara because they had school. Alex followed us to Jiffy Lube so we could get our car worked on. Alex and I were starving so we ran into Subway and got some food. When we came out, Nick told us that Jiffy Lube wouldn't work on our car because we were smoking too much. So Nick decided that he would have to do the oil change himself.

As fun as it sounded to wait around three hours, I decided to go to Santa Barbara with Alex instead. Then the plan was to meet up with everyone in LA for the show. Alex and I pulled into SB and walked around State Street did some stuff. Alex got one of those Dia Bola's. Then we got a call from Sean saying that the show got canceled and the van was overheating so they were heading for Rachel's house in SB.

By this time Rachel was off school, so we decided to go get Habit Burger (my favorite and really reasonably priced) for lunch. At around four we met up with all the guys in front of a really big beach. Almost everyone in the van was on acid. The van was overheating and being crazy. Finally we got it started and took the long way to Rachel's house so as to avoid the freeway.

We rolled into Rachel's house and 10 out of 12 of us were on acid I think. I was really bored being sober, so I decided to smoke some pot out of a bong (something I haven't done since last summer) and I got really high, just like I knew I would. We all decided to go to the beach. Most of us walked but I drove Sean and Chris in Alex's car. We hung out at the beach for a while. Everybody on acid was stoked on the beach but I was pretty bored. Eventually I drove back to Rachel's house by myself and stopped off to get some tall cans. I drank half of one and went to sleep.

The next morning I woke up drank my other two tall cans quickly and got super drunk. I also watched grind which nobody else thought was funny, but I thought it was hilarious. Then we headed off for Irvine.

SLO

2009-07-28T23:09:27Z

We lost our show that we were supposed to play in Hollywood. But luckily Sean Basalyga helped get us on the bill for a sweet show in San Louis Obispo. After that nice people let us stay at there house. It had a pool table so I was playing pool all night. It also had the sickest shower of any place I have ever seen. You had to like step down into the shower and the tile was like native american style red, blue and yellow, it was so sick.

Also Rachel and some of her roomates came to the show/ stayed for the after party. Much later Alex and Jessicanz arrived. It was great to be back around people we knew!

Albuquerque Part Deux

2009-07-28T22:47:16Z

We pretty much just woke up in Denver and left. The drive to ABQ was like six and a half hours. On the way we encountered the biggest storm that we had been through on tour. Most of us got into seats and buckeled in. Lightning bolts were shooting off on either side of the road. Also we were in a hurry to make our show that we had booked last minute at some coffee shop. We totally missed it. But we went to frontier's a really good place to eat that we ate at a total of three times on this trip.

Then we Marina got dropped off at frontier's. We were all stocked to see her again. Also she brought a big bag of fancy food and some alcohol. But we had a 20 hour drive ahead of us so we decided that we needed to get really drunk so we stopped off at a grocery store and I got some wine and Dylan got ingredients for lizard dick.

As we pulled away Guy wasn't gonna stop for any bathroom breaks when we all got drunk. But sure enough we all got really drunk and had to pee but Guy was nice enough to stop (we said it was cuz Marina had to go). Then after that we drank some more and put on music and got real rowdy and had tons of fun before it was time for bed.

Denver

2009-07-26T00:56:36Z

Kansas city sucked. Everybody there was really sketchy and on drugs. But we made some good money. But we decided it was best to just head straight for Denver. So after the show was over, we packed all our stuff up and headed to a stake n' shake. Then Nick and I got red Bulls and everyone else went to sleep. Nick was driving and I was co-pilot. But I was a terrible co-pilot. All I did was stay awake as long as I had red bull, smoke a cigarette and then fall asleep. Then I woke up at every gas station, stumbled in for more red bull smoked another cigarette while I waited for the gas to finish being pumped. But I did stay awake long enough to see some really awesome thunder storms.

We got to Denver at about 1 or 2 in the afternoon. Dylan and I got money from Wells Fargo. Then we all went and got pizza. DJ the guy we picked up in Michigan lived in Denver for 6 months and knew his way around town. Our van kept breaking down all over town which sucked. So it took about two hours to get back to Rhinceropolis.

Everybody in Denver were really pumped up about Religious Girls. During their set I noticed an attractive half asian girl dancing. I didn't really think to much about her cuz right after the set I went and worked the merch table which was hella busy that night. After it had calmed down a little bit, I sat down to drink a beer and chill out. The next band started playing and they sounded alright but I wasn't really paying attention and it was kinda far away. Then Dylan runs in and says i gotta go watch that band play and that they were fucking awesome.

I run into the next room and the music is really good. I push my way to the front and who should I see but the hot girl from earlier. Only now she was in a blue sequenced dress and was the lead singer and bass player of the band. She got like 200% more hotter and I got tons of boners.

Anyways after that we all stayed up late and made arts and crafts and and had dance parties and some of us made put with crusty punks. Some of us got beds and and they brought down a bunch of matts to sleep on. I feel asleep on a couch that was about three feet to short for me. All in all Denver kicked ass.

Chicago/Kasas City

2009-07-26T00:44:34Z

We pulled into Chicago and then we dropped off all of the band stuff at bitchpork where we were playing. After that Dylan, Sean, Nick and I went downtown to try and find a Wells Fargo for Dylan and I to get money. We used my iphone and it took us to Wells Fargo corporate headquarters not to far from the Sears tower. When Dylan and I wandered inside and asked the guy at the desk where the ATM is he looked at us like we were complete idiots. Apparently the only Wells Fargo ATM's were in Indiana.

After that we were driving through the Chicago loop and I spotted Lou Manalti's pizza. My family, boss and ex girlfriend all talked about how this place had the best deep dish pizza in all Chicago. We decided to stop and get some. Dylan was about to die of starvation when we walked in the door and the wait was like 40 minutes. But we made it and got some awesome pepperoni and mushroom deep dish pizza that was totally worth the wait,

When we got back to the warehouse it was still about four hours till Religious Girls went on. So Chris, Sean and I decided to set off all of my illegal New Mexican fireworks in the middle of the street. Then afterwards we drank a bunch of whiskey. I got really drunk and then Emma went and got us all a bunch of beer and I got more drunk.

I went upstairs and at least 200 people had shown up. Some crazy stand up comedian was on. After him some girls told a weird story with an overhead projector. By this time it was time for me to go to so I went and curled up in the backseat of the band and slept through the rest of the show.

In the morning we went and met up with Sean's older sister at a Starbuck's because she was in Chicago. It was really weird seeing her so far away from home. Then we left for a long day's drive through IOWA which sucked. Ramsey left his backpack in a Kum n'Go gas station in the middle of Iowa and we went back for it. So by the time we got to Kansas City all we did was load in and play.

Ann Arbor with a side of Lansing

2009-07-18T23:32:16Z

We woke up at Kerry's house again after another wild night of partying. Then we drove about 20 minutes towards Lansing to Kerry's hometown Brighton Michigan.

In Brighton we took the van to get some new breaks. After we dropped the van off we walked a mile to Kerry's house. It was a very cool house sorta in the woods. I took a giant nap. Everyone else hung out in his cool backyard. Nick got bitten by a wasp. When I woke up pizza was at the house whch was awesome because we were all near starvation. After the pizza I took more nap and everyone continued hanging out.

When I woke up we were about ready to go. So I hopped in the van and we left. Lansing was about 45 minutes away so it wasn't too bad.

We played at a rented giant photography place. It was really nice. The crowd wasn't that big, but not bad for a small town that we didn't know anybody in. Also the guy that booked the show got everybody pizza. (Pizza is pretty much the staple of my diet on this trip)

After the show we stayed at a nice girls house that we met at the show. I stayed up way to late. I also had to get rid of a creepy asian guy who was trying to get with one of her roomates. But the girl was freaked out by him.

We left about 11 o'clock and headed for Chi town. We pulled into town and I dragged Nick Chris and Sean to go to Lou Manalt's the number deep dish pizza place is Chicago. Now I am waiting for ze show to begin. Apparetly it is going to be a very long night since it is a music festival in a warehouse.

daveontour

End

Home

Nerdvine

Death of a Friend

Santa Berbra

SLO

Albuquerque Part Deux

Denver

Chicago/Kasas City

Ann Arbor with a side of Lansing

Ann Arbor Michigan

Buffalo

Boston

Providence

Even more Brooklyn

Brooklyn Day 2

Brooklyn

Jacksonville/Atlanta/Greenville

Austin/Houston/New Orleans

Leaving Albequerque

Albequerque

Tucson

San Diego

L.A.

daveontour @ 2009-06-17T19:57:00