WARNING: DO NOT WATCH IF YOU ARE OFFENDED BY DEAD CHICKENS.
10 years ago when I was a hard core vegetarian I would have punched Dan Romer in the face for this. Instead, I took a video and then ate it (not raw!).
4 days agoEVERYTHING BUT THE BESS SUMMER TOUR 2008
August 16, 2008
This is the snail that lives behind my house. I took an extreme amount of pictures and video of this little guy. I just couldn’t stop, he’s so cute!
4 days ago
home sweet home.
I’ve been back in Brooklyn for about two weeks now and let me tell you, things have been very exciting. Here’s a quick list of what I’ve been up to.
1. Watching episodes of Lost and 30 Rock on my computer.
2. TEMPING: the worst decision that I have ever made and I’m going to try my hardest to never do it again. But sometimes you need to make a little extra money and get treated like shit. Also I was really bored with feeling good about life, so….
3. Playing bocce ball. Yes, I am an old Italian man.
4. Observing snails.
5. Writing songs for my next record that I’ll be recording in October. It’s going to be titled, “Jazz Hands”, and will be mostly me scatting over some really “hip changes”.
I think that about sums it up.
In a few days I will be taking an aeroplane with Jenny and the band to Beirut, Lebanon, to play The Big Bang festival, which I guess is a really big event over there and also is this a run-on sentence? Anyway, I’m pretty excited to be traveling to a part of the world I have never been to. Also, Jenny has been in Europe all summer and I have missed her like the desert misses the rain. Goods things are afoot, dear reader.
4 days ago
August 3, 2008
After our last show Dave threw us a little party at the hotel he was staying at. There were shots of tequila involved and and apparently gymnastics! I’m not sure who took this picture but Allie Moss is demonstrating her balancing skills.
2 weeks ago
The inside of our Gibson bus. Note the guitar shaped table and other functional features.
2 weeks ago
I tried to take a panorama of one of the venues we played out. It’s lines up kind of shitty but you get the idea. Just a tiny intimate space.
2 weeks ago
Back home.
I don’t even know what to say about the past week of my life. I seriously want to be on tour with the Dave Matthews Band forever. I’ve never imagined myself saying that. I mean, I’m sure it would get old after a while. The crowds were not very interested in us and most of them were not there for our set (to be fair, there were always a few thousand. more than I’m used to for sure). But everything else was perfection. The sound was pristine. The crew went out of their way to shower us with praise and help us in any way we needed. The band was so sweet. Dave Matthews himself is one of the most hilarious people I’ve ever met and introduced us every night as “his new favorite band”. Gourmet free food every day. The list goes on and on
I stopped posting because I was just enjoying it so much and I didn’t want to spend time on my stupid slow ass computer. So now I’ll post some pictures and whatnot from the last few days of the tour.
2 weeks ago
July 27, 2008
We played two shows at the same venue in Indiana. The first night we were invited to follow the Dave Matthews Band police escorted convoy of buses out of the venue to an after party at their hotel. The convoy itself was sooooo much fun. Thousands of people standing on the side of the road waving and screaming and wondering “Who are the people in THAT bus?! They’re not in the Dave Matthews Band!”
The second night, things did not go quite as well. We decided to join the convoy again but for some reason the police didn’t know or just decided not to back us up. We were trailing behind the convoy and eventually got too far behind them. The security guards, not knowing that we were coming, let all the thousands of people go into the street that we were about to drive through. Robert, our bus driver, didn’t seem to think it was dangerous at all to plow through the crowd at 30 mph. At one point I put the camera down because I was genuinely concerned that we were going to run over the concert goers. The footage is above.
3 weeks ago
We got gift bags from the Mile High Festival which included these matching sweat suits! We’re thinking this should be our uniform on stage.
3 weeks ago
July 25, 2008