Still in Vegas

The Van's power steering pump was shot.
Were still in Vegas! Bye, bye money.

Vegas baby! Ugh.....

So In S.F. the tour van didn't start right before we were about to load to leave for Oakland. Morgan got on the horn with AAA and as I like to put it AA, as in when shit like that happens i feel like i need to call my sponsor! So her and I were waiting around for AAA/AA and I had a brain fart that goes back 4 years when Eli and I went to see a Canucks game and we got one of those deals where to eat an Monks and you get tickets and they drive you in a shuttle bus to the game. So her and I were in the shuttle bus with all these gray hairs and rich folk, when the bus wouldn't start and the guy was trying and trying, basically he flooded the engine. So Eli was like, "Give it a minuet and it'll start right up." So he did and low and behold it did, so we were off to the game (Oilers VS Canucks).
That's what I thought of in that moment and said to Morgan maybe just give it another try it might have just been flooded? And that fucking DIO it was and it fired right up!!! So we loaded and headed to Oakland. Pins of light fucking RULE! Jake is a total bro. Also Genesis climber and Flood were great as well.
We crashed with amazing girls from the Bay area booking collective and in the morning they fed us delicious bacon with fresh eggs from their chickens in the yard.

Unfortunately things have gotten a little more difficult today (last night was Santa Cruz and it was fine) we missed an exit and got a bit lost on the way to Nevada so it was a long drive. We're at an econo lodge right now and as we pulled in the power steering died in the van???????!!!!
So were up tomorrow trouble shooting the problem and then off to Denver which is 12 hours away.
I feel insecure today, it sucks. It's also hot as hell.

No sleep to brooklyn

Thursday in Portland went pretty well but it was nothing compared to Friday in San Fransisco!!!
The kids in SF love to rock n' roll. Crowd surfing, surging the stage and knocking out Morgans pedals. Ton's of FUN!!
Tonight were in Oakland with Pins of light (Jake from Hightowers other project) It'll be a different crowd from last night, more of my style of booking, a little more riff-centric support acts.
I went from Wednesday to Friday to 2:30am without sleep and other than my mouth having words come out in the wrong order it really wasn't that bad.
Today Ashley and I are going to go visit Sam Adato's drum shop and talk Vista Lights with him... and metal hair cuts.

Parenthitically a douche bag?

I jumped into Bob's (Ashley Spungin's beau) psychic feline, van, last night and headed down to their show at Holocene in PDX. They were playing with Parenthetical girls (pdx) I liked their first album when I was still down with pretentious, whiny, queer, art, music. Not so down anymore!!!

Anyways I'm walking out of the bar and who do I run into but STEVE LOUIE!! BOOSH! He was down for the night to shoot the show and we get to talking and it looks like he's going to be in Cali when P.R.E. is so we exchanged numbers and fingers crossed he can come shoot one of their bay area shows. Steve is a fantastic photographer!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevelouie/

The Purple rhinestone eagle record release is tonight at Backspace if your in town call me at 503-804-1890.

Now back to doing my laundry.

Burning

Day 3
I'm just burning and stamping disc's. Three minuet burn, stamp and repeat.
The tour kicks off in Portland tomorrow. We have a band meeting tonight, I have yet to meet the merch girl Sonrisa. Were stuffing albums as well, that'll be fun eh?! (Not)
I bought two bra's at Fred Meyers and the sales lady didn't take the security tag off of them so now I have to go back to Fred Meyers. Booooo!
A review came out in the Mercury and some other paper here in PDX of The Great Return.
They were good!

Tour diary, my dad made me do it!

DAY1: My dad is living vicariously through me. He really wanted me to do a tour diary, so i considered it and thought, "well fuck why the hell not?"
I arrived in Portland today via the Greyhound bus. I made it across the border without even a second glance in my direction which is kinda annoying since i was prepared for trouble!

The Seattle Greyhound station is disgusting!! Sorry kids but it's really gross. Try pissing with all your luggage in that washroom, not good.

But I made it safely 8 hours later and right on time for Ashley Spungin to pick me up. Ashley is the drummer for Purple Rhinestone Eagle, "Amazing drummer" I should say! Her and I have spent three months communicating via email and one skype session only. So it was a bit strange to actually chat face to face for me at first. I guess i felt nervous? I don't really know? I have been working with musicians for so long that these sorts of things don't normally make me feel nervous, but i guess because i really care about these guys..... I had shaky hands for the first five minuets.
Anyways tomorrow i get to burn C.D's and follow up on some show loose ends.

Oh ya! TWO DOLLAR TALL CANS!! And it was Morgan's B-day. Also Jenk came down and met me for a drink and gave me an American cell phone. BOOSH!

SUMMER TOUR PARTY!!

So i fell in love with Portland band, Purple rhinestone eagle last summer. I stayed in touch with them and went to Portland a few times and partied. Andrea, Morgan and Ashley are the nicest people you will meet! They also fucking shred! The listen to all the music i love, even obscure shit that i thought i only knew about. They also play the best fucking rock/psych/garage shit you'll hear!
I brought them up last weekend for two show's here in Vancouver. They killed it, everyone went nuts and had their minds blown.

I got an email on Tuesday from Andrea officially offering me the position as their Tour manager and booking agent for a month long tour in August!
I KNOW RIGHT!!???!
I'm so stoked and excited, I'm finally going to get to see New York city and everywhere in between.
Good things do happen to those who wait.

Check this shit out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZQz-Tr5myM