Show Journal 2004-10-01
Day 15 – We all woke up and agreed that was the worst night of sleep on the whole tour. This was surprising because it was one of the calm and quietest places we had stayed. Go figure. I was stoked about this morning because I had never seen the Grand Canyon. It was amazing. I walked up to the rim, camera in hand and realized pictures aren’t going to do it justice. Seriously, it was incredible. We tooled around for a bit and headed over to St. George. The drive totally sucked. It was a bumpy two-lane road with no shoulder, big hills, drop offs, lots of traffic and rainstorms. Definitely not a relaxing drive. We also got a cryptic text message that Mt. St. Helens had erupted and we were all bummed out that we missed it. (Later we found there might be more to go so all hope wasn’t lost!) We got to St. George where Dave accidentally ran the van into a burn while trying to “park”. It took a chunk of rubber the size of a soda can off the side of the tire. Whoops. We met up with two locals who took us over to some fast food place with the biggest shakes I’ve ever seen. We headed back over to the club and as soon as we could see the venue the sound guy comes running at as saying “you’re on now”. Shit. We booked it inside and had to play immediately. I was amazed to see how many people were at this show. I was told “it’ll probably be a small one” but there were well over 100 people there. At first I thought they hated us but later realized you weren’t allowed to mosh there. After our whirlwind set we hung outside with Jake and his friends in the Super Villians and just talked about whatever. I feel bad because I didn’t watch any of the other bands. I usually make a point to check each one out, but I didn’t watch one. Shame on me. After we headed over to Kyle’s house, made a run to Wal-Mart and Del Taco and hung out for a bit. I ended up crashing out early.
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