There were problems the day before we left. The van we were supposed to take was nowhere to be found. The plan was to leave on friday night to arrive at Utah on time. We spent 10 hours on the net, phone, and yellow pages looking for a van to rent for cheap. At 8am on Saturday, Kris woke me up (from my break time nap) and said "dude, we found a cheap van, let's go pick it up".
11am and we just threw all the shit in the van. There was no time to fix and organize all of our grear, food, backpacks, merch, etc.. Everything was just thrown in cause we were running waaaay late. We hit the road and drove as fast as we could.
Nevada was fucking hot! But we drove through it very quick. Kris was going over 90mph in Utah so I began telling the dudes of a story that happened while on the AVERSIóN/KONTRAATTAQUE tour a few years ago. If you wanna know that story, email me. Anyway, as soon as I finished telling them that story, we had a flat tire! I was a bit scared but Kris took good control of the mini-van (that's right, a soccer mom mini van).
The show was almost over and we got there on the dot (around 10:30pm)! A few people had left but a few still hung around. Did our set and it was fun. The only thing that sucked was missing all the bands. Sorry brudes.
Jon, the super cool dude who helped us out a crapload, let us stay at his house that night. The first thing we did when we got to his house was hit the bathroom. Moi went last and one of us said "there's no more toilet paper" but Moi didn't know that, So he took a loooooong ass time in there. He finally came out and we were laughing. We asked how he wiped his ass, hahahaha!!!!! Wanna know how? E-mail him and ask, Moy36@yahoo,com.... ask how he wiped his ass in Utah,,
The next morning was ok. We had to organize everything in the van and get the tire fixed. The next destination was Denver, CO. The drive was hot but nice. Nice scenery, nice lake, nice weather. It was around 5pm when we got to Denver and damn, it was ghost town. No one was on the street. Completely lonely, maybe the people were all in church or something. Who knows? But anyway, the show was at this super big warehouse looking venue. Not many people showed up but we made new friends. The show ended early and we didn't have a place to crash so it was decided to drive 1/2 way to Kansas and sleep at a rest stop. But before we left Denver, we hit the Denver skate park and man, this must be the biggest, most brutalest park in the U.S!!! This spot had evreything, it was a skaters wet dream come true. The only bad thing was that it closed at 11pm and the cops kicked us out. So bye, bye it was.
Before we hit the road, we stopped by a market to buy some food to cook. The groceries were bought and on the way we were. Our feast was held at a rest area either in Colorado or the entering part of Kansas. That's where we slept too.
The drive through Kansas was extremely boring and hot. Plains and fields is all we saw. But I guess the boring scenery was entertaining cause a cop pulled us over for speeding. Good thing is that he let us off with a warning. The cop dude was nice and he even told us of a swimable lake about an hour ahead from where we were. The lake kicked ass! All of us skinny dipped and It wasdeep, cool, and overwheling. It was 3pm, and time to hit Lawrence, or Topeka.
The show was supposed to be at a park but it didn't happen. We spent the night at a skate park and then at the house where we slept.
Tuesday, a long drive was ahead of us to Chicago. I don't remember the way but I kinda do. We went by Wyoming, Missouri and maybe Idaho. I'm not sure but I do remember crossing some states we didn't even know we were gonna pass. Well, that was super cool cause we got to see more of the U.S than we expected.
The Chicago show started early and the same happened as in Utah. We arrived as soon as the last band was finishing their set. We played and people seemed to like it. Extremely fun show it was!
The night was spent at the dudes from REACCIóN (ex-Sin Orden vato) house. Manny, Carlos and Megan cooked us some brutal ass food and showed us basketball videos (they loooove basketball). It was passed 1am and I was very, very tired. It was time to hit the hay. The dudes told us that one of us had to sleep in the van (to take care of our stuff) cause the neighborhood wasn't a hood we can trust. Moi and I slept in the van.
Manny, Carlos and Megan gave us a small tour of Chicago and then took us to a killer Mexican food place. The food was cool and we wished we could have stayed longer but there was a lot of road ahead of us. It was good bye time.
It was hard booking the Oklahoma show so we had that day off. I think we just spent it driving and stopping at the cool spots and scenes we saw on the road, Much didn't happen on Wednesday. I don't remember what else happned. But we had a show the next day in Texas and we found out (3 hours before the show) that it was gonna be an 18+ show. We're an anti-agist band so it would go against what we stand for and believe in if we played this show. So we had a day to kill. We were in Albuquerque a day early and we wanted to camp out. I called Roger (the dude who helped book the show in NM) and told us of a spot about an hour north from Albuquerque, So then we were off to that place.
The camping thing is a long story. We drove the whole night looking for a swimmable lake or river but they all sucked. We slept in the woods in the mountains and it was kinda fucking scary. The next morning also kinda sucked cause we still didn't find a river or lake to swim. So we just headed back to Abq. Roger invited us over his house (or we invited ourselves) so we cooked and had a brutal meal! It was 7pm and time to hit the show.
All the bands that played that night were these big, MetalBlade bands. So we opened up and we fucking sucked shit! Although some people liked us, I thought we did a horrible set and the band would agree with me on that. The night was over and it was off to Rogers house. There was drinking and more. But i was too tired to stay awake so I knocked out.
So there is the first half of the tour. I'm tired of typing and I promise that i'll finish this summary and the Shake Yer Bon-Bon diary this week. Check back!
Here are the spots we played.
-Fri 7/11 - No Show :(
10 hours looking for a van!!!
-Sat 7/12 - Salt Lake City, UT
@ Uprok - 342 State St, w/ The Attack, Scabies, Princess Die
-Sun 7/13 - Denver, CO
@ Garageland - 2721 Walnut Ave, w/ Beneath The Ashes
-Mon 7/14 - Lawrence, Kansas
@ Burchum Park
-Tue 7/15 - Chicago, IL
@ 3259 S. Union, w/ 14 to Fight, Eske, Reacción
-Wed 7/16 - Oklahoma City, OK
-Thur 7/17 - El Paso, TX
@ WE CANCELLED!
-Fri 7/18 - Albuquerque, NM
@ PoetryTV Studio,
w/ Himsa, The Agony Scene, Haste, Noisear
-Sat 7/19 - Phoenix, AZ
@ 6841 N 29th Ave, w/ George Moshington, Coughing up Blood, The Kyds vs Columbus
-Sun 7/20 - Bell, CA
@ the Hall of Mirrors,
w/ Bad Reaction (ex-Fields of Fire), Divided Lines, Anti-Genocide, Degrading Humanity, Out of Vogue
-Mon 7/21 - Talent, OR
@ Wiggleys Garage w/ The Squints, Hobis
-Tue 7/22 - Portland, OR
@ Murray's Pizza w/Order of the Volture
-Wed 7/23 - Seattle, WA
@ 2nd Ave. Pizza w/ Cut The Shit, The Rites, Cold Sweat, Last Waltz
-Thur 7/24 - Olympia, WA
@ The Midnight Sun - w/ Cut The Shit, The Rites, Deconditioned, Vindication, Friday Night Youth Service
-Fri 7/25 - Berkeley, CA
@ Gilman St w/WHN?, Artimus Pyle, The Rites, Cut The Shit, Funeral Chock
-Sat 7/26 - Chino Hills, CA
@ El Taco Nazo,
w/ WHN?, Conga Fury, Chainsaw, Voetsek, Cut the Shit, The Rites, RunaMucks
