Show Journal 2001-08-24
Day 1 – The beginning of tour #4 . This time we are bringing along Kevin … our good friend from Seattle as our roadie/merch person. God bless him for wanting to spend countless hours with us in the van and embark on this potentially ugly journey. New for this year we have added a 3 foot roof extension to our van which sleeps three. Now we can sleep in truck stops with comfort and style. No more sharing a bench seat! We were excited to hit the road in our newly modified ride and get going to Tri-Cities but we ended up having to move all of Jim’s apartment into a storage unit. Boo. Nothing quite like heavy lifting before a show. After two hours (!) of moving Jim’s possessions we hit the road. We quickly realized that the only thing we forgot was a way to secure the baggage. I learned this first after being smacked in the head by a flying backpack on the way to pick up Justin. Tonights show was our long awaited return to Tri-Cities and the show tonight totally rocked. At one point Dave proclaimed himself the mayor of Tri-Cities. People advised him against his newly appointed title. Poor Dave … once he was the King of Tri-Cities and now he can’t even be the Mayor. No respect. It was good to see The Creeps again and SK and the PAB sounded better than ever before. Very cool show to attend. After the show we drove through the night back to Portland to pick up a few forgotten items … most importantly our list of directions and phone numbers. Oops. We finally pulled over to sleep around 8:00 A.M. outside of Eugene.
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