Show Journal 2004-09-23
Day 7 – I barely slept with all the truck traffic going in and out of the truck stop. I had this irrational fear that a truck is going to run into us. Weird. I got up early and paid $7 for a shower in the truck stop. A bit much but there wasn’t anything else to do with everyone else asleep. Speaking of the shower thank god I remembered my flip flops. I headed over to Denny’s and everyone else followed in as they woke up. We headed over to 101 and got to Salinas really early. We decided to take a side trip to Monterey to see the ocean. We were originally all stoked on seeing the aquarium but since everyone was still in a rotten mood from the night before we split up and wandered for a while. I just took a long walk along the coast in the sun, made a few calls and sat in a park for a while. Back to the van and onto Salinas. We knew the show was a house show but I never suspected the show was a “farm house” show. We kept driving and driving further into the countryside and eventually plodded 1/4 mile down a dirt road to the house. I honestly thought Jim was going to blow a gasket when he realized this was the location. I knew it would be cool since we were playing with The Rivals and the house was owned by the singer of Bound to Break, both of which we had played with in Hillsboro last month. People started to filter in and everyone was super nice and friendly. The show freaking rocked and I had a blast. Mike had another birthday tonight – his third in 5 days. Chris from Thirty3 had to go and upstage our set by accidentally hitting his head on his guitar and splitting it open. He played one more song with blood running down his face and was later carted to the hospital where we got 8 stitches. It was gnarly. Apparently Dave got some pictures in the ER but I don’t ever want to see them. Thanks again to the kids that missed the show to drive Chris to the hospital. After The Rivals crazy set we headed on the Brian’s house in San Jose. On the way we stopped at In N Out Burger for the 3rd time this trip. This is also where Dave said one of the meanest things I’ve ever heard. We get our food and just past the window there is a homeless guy asking for food. Dave looks at him and says “Dude, there’s food in there” and points to the restaurant. I don’t think it was intentional but damn it was funny.
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