Show Journal 2006-03-11
The word for tonight was snow. Lots of it. On the way over the mountain we kept getting ominous messages from Thirty3 about icy roads and snowy lanes. Then the clincher came when they came across a fresh accident near Warm Spings. A car in the road was totaled and another had flown over the guardrail and down a several hundred foot tall cliff. They got out their “van”, looked over the rail, saw some smoke and the car at the bottom of the cliff actually exploded. Serious. They ended up getting re-routed on some back roads. When we got to the scene almost an hour later it was still a flurry of activity. (In fact they were still pulling the wreckage out on our way home almost 6 hours later!) We ended up getting to Madras in about 3 hours (usually takes 2) but unfortunately we missed Zombie Co-Pilot. The Kronkmen were up second and started to get people moving. It had been a long time since I had seen Thirty3 and I had forgotten what I had been missing. Lots of new songs tonight and they even debuted one from their new album that Dave has a cameo on. It’s fun watching Dave seem hardcore because he always reverts to finger pointing. Don’t all hardcore singers though? Anyway, even without vocals Tre Tre killed it. We had to follow that and I think we did ok. Started off a little slow but by the half way point people started going nuts. Of course the party always starts when Larry And His Flask arrives because they know how to throw down. The set was good, the people up front were awesome and we had a blast. Knowing we had a long snowy drive ahead of us we loaded out down the icy stairs and headed over to a gas station where Jon proceeded to practice his dry docking skills. We got in formation and headed up the pass. Seems it had been snowing because there was a hell of a lot more snow on the way back up. It was even hard to see a few times with the regular head lights on. It didn’t help that Dave kept wanting to try out his camera (with flash) in the sketchy conditions. In was snowing and icy all the way to Sandy which is probably the most I’ve ever seen living here. Thanks to everyone who attended the show with extra thanks to PJ, Kaylin, Stephanie and all those who helped put on, setup and clean up the show!
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