We’re a good week into this tour with Bobby Bare Jr. Thusfar we’ve all got about 8 hours sleep combined. It’s mobile insanity, like a freaky Partridge Family episode, but stinkier and louder. All in all, lots of fun meeting cool new people, playing our songs for them and then doing it again the next day.
So there’s some new things going on with us, thought I’d share:
A) New Face.
Dave Depper has bowed out of his duties on bass guitar & on this tour we’ve been breaking in the new blood W.C.Beck. We did a ’soft announce’ that he’d be with us on tour, but now since we’ve discovered he’s no bed wetter, felt safe in announcing atop the mountain summit that he is, in fact, our guy. We’re happy to have him aboard & aside from being a dear friend and smoking musician, are glad to share the stage each night with the finest silky strands of moustache you’ll ever see.
B) New Place.
Our tunes are showing up on new radio stations across America. Please call yer local station and request “Blue Sunshine”. Especially in Minneapolis, KCMP has the tune as the song of the day today!
C) New Space.
We’ve been reading some crazy stuff on this tour. I bought David Icke’s new book “Human Race”, and it’s been a daily topic in the van. Entertaining and horrifying, I’d recommend checking it out. Okay, so this isn’t really new space – but we were braced for a space encounter in Marfa, but all we got was a free stay in an 1800’s whorehouse and an all night rager with the locals singing Charlie Walker til the sun came up. Probably as close to an alien encounter as I’ll ever get.
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ON THE PLAYER IN THE VAN:
1) Damien Jurado – Saint Bartlett (I just can’t get enough of this record! It is amazing)
2) Duover – 1st untitled cd burned record
3) The Cure – Disintegration
4) Ages & Ages (final mixes of yet unreleased debut)
5) Built To Spill – There is No Enemy
