Posts Tagged tour
Bowerbirds visit! Hooray! Phil and Beth are homies from Raleigh, NC (the town from which I moved to come here). They were part of a wonderful friend group who made summer 2009 the best I’ve had yet. They play in a band called Bowerbirds, and they are good. Very, very good. They were to play [...]
Seattle is one of of my favorite cities on the planet. Not that I’ve been to many places on the planet. But Seattle currently stands as a favorite regardless. In college, I would take my spring breaks and, instead of going to the beach or on a cruise like everyone else, I would go to [...]
Tour day 2. We awaken in Chico, CA, greeted by heavy freezing rain. I am quickly becoming acquainted with how lovely winter touring conditions are in the northwest. We say our goodbyes to our gracious host Sara Rose and prepare to head on our way. We take a quick tour through downtown Chico, in which [...]
Greetings from Northern California. I’m writing to you from the back seat of the tourmobile, in the middle of a heavy rainstorm, en route to Oregon. The tour posse: Mark Growden – musical mastermind/reason why all of this is happening. Alex Kelly – cello prodigy/giggler/noise maker extraordinaire. Helena Price – record label representative/doer of business-related [...]
I have spent the last two weekends tagging along with some ridiculously cute and happy couples… makes me want to barf sunshine just thinking about it. I really couldn’t ask for better people to be honorary third wheel with. First round was with Kelly and Jim. I spent last Sunday with them shooting some engagement [...]
The primary reason I came back to Raleigh so soon, other than to catch up with old friends by wandering the streets of my hometown neighborhood (as I accomplished in my last post), was a wedding. My close friends Bill and Jessica are getting married. I met Bill while packing a giant van full of [...]
If you kept up with my blogs over the summer, you know I spent a good portion of it touring the country with Tim Lytvinenko, Bowerbirds and Megafaun. It was quite an adventure. Tim and I took countless photos and recounted all of our adventures on welldonetour.com, the photo-site we created for the tour. It [...]
I took some fun photos this weekend, and would love to post them tonight, but I can’t find my camera charger or extra battery. So they are stuck within my dead camera for now. Instead, I thought I’d post my favorite photos from this summer’s phototour, as well as a couple of photos that I [...]
After randomly deciding to continue our tour over lunch in San Francisco, we are on our way back eastward, en route to the desert. We will be in Phoenix in 11 hours. These drives really don’t phase us anymore. It’s just time to edit photos, or write stories for the blog, or listen to Harry [...]
8/10/2007 – Charlotte to Columbia Columbia on my birthday. We have been fearing this for weeks. To give you an idea of what happens to us in Columbia, I will include an excerpt from my last Columbia tour log: —————— [5/20/2007] All of the friends we made at our first Columbia show were back to [...]
8/9/2007 – Wilmington to Charlotte I wake up in a mysterious female’s bed (mysterious female being gone, obviously) with a giiiiiaaaant headache. I wander out into the living room to find a bunch of greasy homeless looking people who happen to be my tour mates. After a good bathe and a trip to Bojangles, we [...]
8/8/2007 – Raleigh to Wilmington We are looking forward to our second leg of the summer tour. We’ve already played more than 25 states, driven through 39… so this is more of a replay for us, with bigger crowds, larger $$ guarantees, and a couple of new cities in the mix. All of us are [...]
6/10/07 – Chicago to Raleigh We wake up in time to go explore the city a bit. We basically tried to see and experience all of the cliché Chicago things we could.. Wrigley Stadium, beer, deep-dish pizza, the “train” (NOT the subway apparently). On the way back towards the venue, we accidentally took the wrong [...]
6/9/07 – Wichita to Chicago We arrived in Chicago early in the afternoon. Amos and Zack were still mostly nonfunctional, but BJ was absolutely giddy by this point. Chicago is one of his favorite cities, and we landed this gig last-minute (on the phone at Burger King somewhere in Idaho if I recall correctly), so [...]
6/8/2007 – Denver to Wichita I can’t say we were TOO excited about playing in Kansas. Nothing against the state, but we just weren’t expecting much of a show compared to the bigger cities/more populated states we had played in. On the plus side, we had heard that our venue, Kirby’s, was the premier venue [...]
6/7/2007 – Salt Lake City to Denver We woke up 3 hours later than intended. No surprise there. We packed up our stuff in a hurry and headed east. Another long drive ahead. We were originally going to take the slightly longer scenic route through the Rockies, but had to cut it short (down to [...]
6/6/2007 – Boise to Salt Lake City We woke up after a short late-night nap in the hotel, and soon set out to find a bite to eat. We immediately realized that we truly were in the middle of nowhere. Besides this hotel, a Subway, an Arby’s, and a gas station, there was absolutely nothing [...]
6/5/2007 – Seattle to Boise The drive from Seattle to Boise was one of the most beautiful and bizarre routes I have ever witnessed. Our route extended eastward through Washington toward Spokane, then south, back through Oregon for a second, then into Idaho. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Washington terrain – western [...]
6/4/2007 – Portland to Seattle So it felt great arriving in the northwest, but I had forgotten how much Seattle dominates any part of this region. Or.. well, I actually didn’t know for sure, since I had never really been anywhere besides Seattle, but I had a feeling it was the case. The city was [...]
[Disclaimer: The 2007 views of Helena do not necessarily reflect the current views of Helena.] 5/25/2007 – Little Rock We had a photoshoot scheduled in LR at 2:00 this afternoon. Thank god we came up the night before, because we still came close to oversleeping. Much better than oversleeping and waking up 6 hours away. [...]
5/29/2007 – From Austin. Hey people. At this point I would usually have a new batch of stories for you but I’m a bit behind on my writing. I have since been to Baton Rouge, Houston, Dallas, and now Austin. All have been absolutely great. This morning, both BJ’s dad AND my dad had [...]
[Disclaimer: The 2007 views of Helena do not necessarily reflect the current views of Helena.] 5/24/2007 – Knoxville to Starkville to Little Rock We all had agreed to wake up at 10am to get a head start to Starkville. Once again, we completely disregard the alarms we set and sleep in until 12. I steal [...]
[Disclaimer: The 2007 views of Helena do not necessarily reflect the current views of Helena.] 5/23/2007 – Asheville to Knoxville Tour has been successful thus far, but there is one little problem we collectively have (besides alcoholism) – sleeping in. Every night we plan our moderately early wake-up time, then immediately disregard it and sleep [...]
[Disclaimer: The 2007 views of Helena do not necessarily reflect the current views of Helena.] 5/22/2007 – FREE DAY at Lake Norman/Asheville We all woke up rested for once! This is a rarity.. we usually get away with 4-5 hours of sleep a night. I think I slept in later than anyone, because I woke [...]
