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Goin South!

If you’ve never heard that song by Lag Wagon on the album “Trashed” you should take a listen… its an amazing song and also one hell of an amazing album!
Well to continue on our journey from yesterday we are now headed out of Arkansas and down to Texas… Last night was interesting to say the least haha. For those of you who follow my twitter updates you already know a little about what was going on cause i was posting as the night went on but for those of you who don’t you can read about it here.

So I will say that when we got to the venue yesterday we all thought ok this place seems pretty cool. Typical small bar/restaurant type place. So we load in and get ready for a sound check, which i might add we almost didn’t get.. i actually had to tell them how we were going to do the setup/soundcheck, so that was interesting. So we do our sound check basically to find out that we can’t hear shit on stage and we’ll just have to go with it… This is fine though, at least we know ahead of time that we can’t hear shit so were not suprised on stage later on. Jeremy starts checking in with people asking about food and drinks and such. They inform us that we’ll get a couple of pizzas from the resturant and we’ll need to see the door guy about wrist bands and drink tickets. We all head over to the door guy and he’s like “how man in the band” i said “4″, he says “how many in the crew” i said “1″, then he says, “ok well we only give the performers hospitality not the crew”. “I’m like ummm ooook”. What the fuck is that shit? I mean who does that? What our crew isn’t good enough to have a beer? So lame! Needless to say we just gave Justin beers when he wanted one so F them anyway…. It honestly felt like this venue didn’t give a shit about any of us at all. Not that were a big deal or anything but instead of a hey guys nice to have you at our club it was more like, ya fuck you guys play your set and get the hell out hahaha!! The night goes on the first 2 bands are “interesting” i’m not sure how to describe them otherwise sorry haha. We hang out have a few beers, watch Left Alone and then VGS takes the stage. Killing it as always I enjoyed there set until all of the sudden they got cut like 7 songs short… we were all saying what the hell? Ok well i guess its time for us to go on now. So we get up there, do a line check (not that it was needed) and start going, so about 6 songs in the promoter comes up on stage, asks Jason for the mic and proceeds to tell everyone in the place that the restaurant us closed and that they’ll have to use the side door when they leave, we all kind of look at each other weird but blow it off and start a new song. Then after that song the sound guy looks at us and says “last song” we’re like really?? ummm ok well i guess instead of a 1 hour plus set we’ll just do 30 minutes… weird. So we go into Super Bitch and no shit they actually turned on the lights like we weren’t even on stage performing anymore hahaha it was nuts! I remember waaaaay back in the day Donnie used to do this to us at the fish pub but it was when we would be playing at 1:00 in the morning and the only people there to see us was him and the door guy hahah! Good times back then!!! So we proceeded to finish Superbitch and go straight into Siempre Loco and call it a night. What a show… what a venue really ahaha. Regardless, of all this the kids were great! Some people even drove hours to come see us so that was super RAD!! I’m sure we’ll be back around at some point but I will say that I really hope we don’t have to play that place again…

On a side I got to hang out with my friend chris and a few of his buddies all night and that was cool. He brought me this fuckin rad cowboy hat that i’m fully rockin now for the rest of the tour! THANKS CHRIS!!

Cheers!
JIM

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