Kansas - Pontiac
Posted 11/4/2007 by Vagrant_Admin
I am sorry to have been out of touch this week guys, but the reason is a good one. I have been writing songs! While I apologize for my absence from the board, I have to let you know that I MUST drop all other hobbies and responsibilities to chase these creative moments. I know you understand.
So, a quick recap. Since we last spoke I have visited Kansas City, St. Cloud MN. Chicago, Toronto, and last night in Pontiac Michigan.
Kansas was great. I had a nice conversation with a girl named Kate who brought me something nice, I visited with some friends who used the show as a birthday party (fun idea) and I jumped on stage with John Ralston during his set and I think I scarred the life out of Dustin.
St Cloud. We had a nice day off in the sleepy town of St. Cloud. I found a guitar shop a comic book store that stayed open even though we tried to walk in at closing time, and a place for a haircut. What more do you want on a day off!?! I invited the girls from the hair saloon to come to the show the next day. They were lovely and gave me tons of ideas of what kind of trouble I could get into in a town like that on the Sat before Halloween. I left their names on the list, but I don’t think they came to the show. If you read this girls, thanks for the tip about The Red Carpet, we had to carry one of my friends out of there by the end of the night!
Chicago was Chicago. It is almost like a second home to me and the audiences there feel like old friends. The kids I met out side were fun to chat with and one even made me a care package of cold weather gear to help kick this darn cold away once and for all (it still lingers).
Toronto was a fine display of the Canadian spirit. If you haven’t been to Canada you have been depriving yourself of some of the kindest and most interesting people in the world. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the government gives grants to artists there in Canada that causes a ration of creative and intriguing people there, or maybe it is in the water. Either way, the scene there is of no small inspiration to me.
Pontiac: This is how much we love the Detroit area: We started our tour there over a month ago and booked another one there near the end of it. The first one was at Meadowbrook Amphitheatre in Rochester. That was the tone setter for this whole tour. Last nights show in Pontiac was like a house party! Loud, hot, and without restraints. It was if the parents were away on vacation and we had the basement to ourselves. The only drag was that I had thought that I had kicked this sore throat, but it keeps coming back. Because of that I couldn’t really speak to the kids that I met after the show. I was glad that they understood and I found it funny that they kind of whispered when they spoke to me, as if it was they too who were fighting a sore throat. Thanks for the empathy guys! Thanks as well to the girl (the robitussin has caused me to be unable to remember details such as her name) with the Sunnydale High School t-shirt (so jealous!) who brought me the latest Buffy season 8 book. It is nice of you guys to bring me things, (though not necessary!) but when you bring me things like this I feel like you really know me.
So that’s it for now. I am working on another entry that I think you will find very insightful but I need to take my time with it because it is something I am really interested in. It has to do with the evolution of a song from demo to record and how most of the time it improves the song but how in at least one case it may not have. This song of mine that I am referring to is not a song that you have heard any other stage than the end result album version. Therefore it is taking me a while to pull it all together. But that is for later.
Be good.
Chris
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