17th Apr 2008
tour day 22
After a lovely afternoon filled with snacks, naps, and Mexican food for dinner we stopped at Guitar Center before our show. Katie and I stayed in the van, but the boys shared their experience with us. After trying to convince the guy at the register that Joe was not the Joe O from Salt Lake City (they have a database that keeps track of what you buy) they were praised for their purchase by the guy at the door. “Every real musician needs a Monster Cable.” (Monster Cables are overpriced instrument cables that are supposed to last forever). The highlight, however, was that the door guy’s greeting/goodbye was “Rock and roll!” Naturally, a discussion arose over whether or not it’s required to be a moron to work there, or if it’s just a product of the environment once the person is hired. Although I think it’s a little of both, my theory is that the employees are so caught up in the constant noodling on the overpriced instruments that they aren’t physically unable to tell you anything useful. I’ve known a few intelligent GC employees, but more often than not you’ll leave with a good anecdote of the lameness encountered.
The show was at The Cavern in Dallas ,TX. Our new friend Tania from The Ramonalisas was really nice to set up the show for us.
It was a pretty cool place, but the majority crowd was kind of weird. We started playing to a full room and then suddenly everybody disappeared except for the people at the tables and bar. After finishing our second song I think a whole two people clapped out of the 15 or so in the room. It was so weird because they didn’t even clap for the the band after us who most of the people were clearly there to see. So I guess it wasn’t that they didn’t enjoy the music, they just didn’t care to express their appreciation? It was a prime example of lame-o hipsters that are too cool to clap. Fortunately, one of Wyatt’s friends came to see us as well a nice lady that we met at our first Dallas show on this tour. Although we only got paid $10, it still wasn’t the lowest profiting show because we sold some CDs.
We are sad to announce that our we got two nicks in our windshield from stupid trucks. One of them happened in New Mexico on the way to Oklahoma.
We have also massacred a significant portion of the bug population in several cities as suggested by the disgusting front of our van.
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