DAY FOUR

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Day Four...Day Four...Day Four.....you dirty little day. One that will be remembered for a LONG time. Possibly forever thanks to Zac's scar. But we'll get into that later.

Day Four started off as an unsuspecting, somewhat normal day. Although there was K's swollen arms. (Apparently he's allergic to hotel "filth" and general "uncleanliness.") At any rate, we took our time getting up, showering in a clogged bathtub with everyone's dirty water up to our knees, and then headed out the door for some breakfast. What's that you say? What fine Wilmington restaurant did we choose?

"Whitey's" of course!! Where else?



What's even weirder than Whitey's itself is that our bass player, Pat, was recognized by the the wife of his Delaware High School best friend. Kinda started to feel like a "flashback" from the tv show LOST. Or a "flash FORWARD." Oh no.....what if we start time-traveling?? And get Bloody Noses?? And have to watch Jack Shepherd pathetically avoid having sex with Kate??!

Anyway, we left to go put brand new sneakers on the SilverBlaze. (due to a slight mud-trap we had to push out of the other day :(




We were told it would take a couple hours so we passed the time in the local Mall. Ha! Reminded me of being fifteen...checking out the "chicks in the food court." We stopped by a SUPER cheap Book Store and stocked up. Notice Zac actually OPENS his while mine just stay looking pretty in the bag.



When I realized the Bag of Books wasn't helping me look distinguished for the girls in "Hot Topic," we decided to make a Jupiter One Snowglobe. The greatest investment yet...we keep it propped on the dashboard.




The place that was making all the various useless photo items had a really weird sense of "marketing." Literally EVERY shirt, mug, and hologram Christmas Ornament was "In Memory Of..." It was ALL pics of dead people! These "urban" teenagers and young fathers and stuff. The depressing little ghetto-kiosk was also RIGHT next to the Carousel...WTF??!?!?!!




We got in the van and headed towards my friend's house in Charleston, SC. There was no show, we just had the night off and wanted to see the city. We got to Sean and Jessica's house around 9pm and left for dinner downtown. We were told by the local Ghost Tour guy that a bar called Griffon House is haunted. Naturally, we headed straight there. It IS over 200 years old and covered from top to bottom by dollar bills (about $4,000 worth), but ghosts?? We didn't see any and Zac is usually the FIRST guy to start up a conversation with one.



We actually called this guy around 1am but he was asleep :(



We met a bunch of "Spring Breakers" and an hour later K was tearing Zac's shirt in half.




Feeling very happy with the evening thus far, we decided to take the fun outside to the docks over-looking the water. It was PITCH Black out there, but "things to jump over" were plentiful. We started off by jumping from one square bench to another on one foot. There were some flags thrown on the "regulation" of my jump, but in the end i think we all agreed. Heilman came out the winner of Round 1. Next was the "swinging bench hurdle." This event proved very difficult because of the elevated height. Once again, Heilman makes a clean jump. Zac took 2nd with a good jump, but didn't exactly "stick" the landing. Up next was K and Holy Sh*t....HILARIOUS! He didn't even come close and wound up straddling the bench with his legs. We're talking running jump Crotch-Plant!

We were walking back to the SilverBlaze but decided to squeeze in one more event. The "back-to-back bench hurdle." These benches were deceptively challenging. They were not elevated by chains, which means lower height, but there WAS two of them. This meant having to jump twice as FAR. Naturally, Heilman makes the jump with grace ;) On deck is Zac. Now it's important to remember that we're all drunk, it's 3am, and we can BARELY see. Zac takes a running leap and catches the top with his shin. This sends his body forward and ends in a TOTAL face-plant!!! He hit the deck with his head...HARD!!!!

He gets up, wanders in a tiny circle for a second with blood streaming down his face, and says, "One more time." In shock or a bad-ass....you decide.




We rushed him to the hospital while he held a sock to his head. ( i had bought him a pair earlier from the Exxon). You ALSO have to remember he is still wearing a powder blue t-shirt COMPLETELY ripped down the middle. K gave Zac the shirt off his back as we sped to the ER. (what a guy) I desperately tried to convince Zac he should leave the half shirt on, but no luck.
He registered with the nurse...




Always keeps his cool in any situation...





We knew Zac would need stitches but wasn't sure if he'd have anaesthesia so I made him drink A LOT of vodka. Probably not the "smartest" thing to do but made sense at the time. We waited there for 3 and a half hours with a giant hole in Zac's head until it FINALLY got stitched up around 7 am. When the doctor was putting in the stitches i couldn't believe how gross it looked. I asked Zac if it hurt and he said, "It's weird. It feels like root beer." The doctor said, "That's the vodka talking," but we all know it wasn't. That's Zac talking.

SEVEN STITCHES above his bruised and swollen Right Eye. He kinda looks like Thom Yorke now so we're psyched. If you want to give him your sympathies, send him a get well comment @ www.MySpace.com/ZacColwell

DAY THREE

We left DC for the great city of Wilmington, NC. Exactly "why" it's great we haven't figured out yet...but we're open to suggestions.

We rolled up to "The Juggling Gypsy" and discovered it's a restaurant / hooka bar created by a fire-breather.



They had a dog named Cosmo, some good food, but only ONE mic stand. Zac had to Jerry-Rig the mic over a beam.



It was good to see our friends Lauren Taylor, Jeff, Tess' crew, and Airlie coming out to party.

After the show we headed straight for a Waffle House and "covered" some hash browns.



My friend Hallie told me about the jukebox and we decided to make it a priority. Apparently, if you write a song about Waffle House, they'll put it in rotation! By this time next year, we WILL have a Jupiter One song in the Waffle House jukebox. Mark my words.


That night we found a seedy Travel Lodge and laid our heads.....Good Night Wilmington

D

DAY TWO

We woke up and decided to go to a musuem.....we found out that D.C. is home to many "sculptures" or "works of art." This is a cute "idea" and if yer not smart enough to realize that they're actually "Outer Space Machines," I suppose you can sleep a lot easier.



Here we are in our most patriotic of miming photos, ( USA ! )




We walked around the National Gallery, pet some dogs by the reflecting pool, and ate some tacos.




Zac accepted a wager of $8 to drink all the salsa on the table......if you look closely you can see his salsa-stache


Zach chugs salsa from patdougherty on Vimeo.

After Zac defended my honor by settling a score with a Mountain Dew bottle,



We began a challenge of Bench-Hurdling. As the band will tell you, I seem to have been given a bionic jumping ability. Probably due to some nuclear explosion or a rare kangaroo bite. Here you see K desperately trying to compete.....poor guy.





The biggest challenge of the day was this garbage can...proved to be no match for my winged-heels




Pat gave Zac a new silky shirt that happens to be his second "power color" next to Apricot Nectar.




We showed up to IOTA club in Arlington and had some listening sessions in the van with Dane and Erica. I was inspired by our trip to the museum so I created my own little snare drum art.




After Tim Bracken, we got on stage and played most every song we know....Andy in the front supplied some drinks and then threw the glass against the floor like it was a Greek Wedding (Opah!) I guess K was drunk cuz he managed to get through the night without a scratch. The only guy I know who hurts himself more when he's sober. Erica gave Gordon his very first kiss and we all went back to her place afterwards for some pizza and Wii Tennis.

Thanks for a great night IOTA!!!!!!!!!!!

D

DAY ONE

Ladies and Gentlemen....introducing Pat Dougherty on Bass!



We left around 11am for our 7 hour drive to Charlottesville. Everything was going smoothly until we hit VA...got tied up in some ridiculous traffic and was kinda late to the show. We saw the most disturbing/awkward public art pieces on the street. It was a completely black, wooden, 2 dimensional sculpture of a man with a GIANT headed baby???




Our friends Staionary Set were right behind us. We got to the Tea Bazaar joint and saw some old friends, Rosie & Jessica. Pat was able to capture the moment in which Zac was told the band gets ONE free drink??!?!?!!!!




We watched Stationary Set and Shapiro melt faces, and then we closed out the night. The stage was small but the vibe in there was great.




A bunch of hippies were walking around with "re-juvenating face masks" and K fell victim to peer pressure. We discovered Jake Gyllenhaal has been "moonlighting" as the guitarist in Stationary Set ...




and Zac bludgeoned the top of K's head with the headstock of his guitar :(



Thanks to Margot & Co. for coming out to Pat's first show with us :)

We drove to our friend's house in D.C. after the show that night. A long and windy road. Bulgarian Woman's Choir in the van. THoughts on trees without a name having deeper meaning and significance to the planet Earth. As we drove through this town, we realized the Gods were smiling upon "Gordon's First Kiss Tour."




When we finally got to Rich and Courtney's house around 4am we entered the house quietly and proceeded to the living room. It was in that moment that we were welcomed by a plastic nude woman of African-descent with a disturbing expression on her face, "Latisha." She was wearing lingerie made of candy...





Not long after...sleep ensued.


D

Nuts and Gum Tour '08 Vol. 1

Here's a little video ditty featuring the beginning of our uber successful Nuts and Gum Tour (together at last!). If you go to the end, you'll see a fabulous yaz flute solo by Zac.
Thanks to all the great people who came out and friended us, and an extra hug to those who let us crash.
Also a special thanks to Brent and his fam in St. Louis for lending us your house for the weekend (sorry about the DVD player).

The Great White North and Morning Warmups

Every once in a while we find ourselves driving through a snow ocean in mid February!


After this snow storm, we stayed with Uncle Doug and Kristen and feasted on his big potato balls. We played with a very cool Minneapolis band called Bukkake Dance Party (it's a temporary name I'm told).
From there we went up to Marquette, MI for the second time. Unfortunately, the only souvenir we have from Marquette is this snowflake:


We arrived at St.Louis, MO. Dave, Zac and Kellen danced with joy.




The silver arch, Jefferson national expansion memorial was shinning in the blue sky.We went up to the top riding a small capsule and glanced the beautiful land scape.

In the Beginning

In the Beginning, there was nothing.

Then there were Nuts. 

Nuts were all right for a while, but there was something missing. .. Some kind of need for balance was making itself felt.

Then there was Gum. 

Jupiter One looked at it's creation and saw that it was good and that it should spread the word as far as their van - Silver Blaze - would carry them. From within the veritable Garden of Eden that is NYC the first stop, after much deliberation, was chosen. Here is Dave singing one of the greatest staples of the 80's:

(Jupiter One's first test was a Flood of Biblical Proportions. Level 3 State of emergency. K risked his life to take some pictures of this awesome spectacle. It was very beautiful to see all those trees standing in the caramel-colored water lazily moving under the menacing downpour, and these beautiful sights were made especially for Jupiter One to see at the start of their journey. Jupiter One is often reminded of the power of nature since it seems like we can't catch a break, as far as weather, as our fans who've come out to see us in the rain or supernatural cold can attest.) 

Cleveland turned out to be a great choice. Great crowd. Learned a lot about them too! Personal stuff. 

Run Run Addington and Madison East were there. Reppin' hard. Thanks to Flo for the clothes,

Radical bar staff and Erie PA crew for making the drive. See ya soon children.

Niki is the angel of Bowling Green, Ohio. She has a wolf living in the house. It's street legal. 

Dave asked. He also made it sing. You know how you can make wolves sing? That's what he did.

We have video footage. But we also have video footage of everything. What would you like to see? Let us know. K drunk is one of my favs.

K was hilariously drunk in Kentucky. We had a day off after an EKU gig. Then we went bowling. We all won. But not before working on new music in the hotel room with K's mini amp and a band sandwich (human sandwich - on top of the tv stand). Can you guess the order of stacking? Mocha was on top of course.

[New Music Sidenote!] - We have lots... next time you come see us you'll hear it. 

Pittsburgh was a f*ck$ng blast, people. So many noisy people (who are our favorite kind of people) and lots of lyric sing-alongs which really helps K remember the words. K wore his new "Sting onesey" as Dave calls it, which is really a green jumpsuit that K is nekkid underneath so we can see his sexy brown chest above the zipper. All glistening.

Dave and I were quite drunk and dancing around the rest of the night, generally causing a scene.

We met some very sweet respectable girls who respectfully said goodnight pretty soon after Dave started stumbling around with me on his shoulders somehow also stumbling, in midair.

Enough.

Awake! Beautiful Pittsburgh house of the lovely and talented Scott and Sarah Peterson. 

Voices downstairs. 

I smell food. Lots of food. 

"Sure! thanks" now I'm holding a bloody mary.

Life's great in this house. So many new friends in such a short, pleasant time. 

And so we're back out on the road. It's windy. K struggles to keep the car straight. That's what's really happening, but in my head he's messing with me, doing it on purpose. The sky looks like some Lord of the Rings sh*t. The trees are bare and dead-looking on the hills above the strip malls. There's no time of day. I see the sun behind the clouds, but the clouds are in purgatory. They don't have anywhere to be, and they're all pretending they don't have anything in common. They're on Bedford Ave.

And so Jupiter One was tested once again- "GO TO THE POISON ROOM! IN THE HI LAND OF OH. SIN SIN ATTIC!", they though they heard in garbled shouting from those clouds that seemed not to be paying them any attention just a few moments before.

love to you,

z

Got Questions For Us??????

We'll be doing a live interview with "The Daily BS" on Friday at 1pm

If you have any questions you want to hear answered, call in at 1pm Friday and fire away :)

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or you can e-mail them questions for us at anytime:

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P.S> We're in KENTUCKY!!!!!  Drinking "Old Dan Tucker"

Bowery Ballroom SOLD OUT!

We're terribly sorry to anyone who was turned away in that harsh cold! Thanks and 'sups all around to everyone who came. We were so happy to see so many supportive friends in our biggest venue yet! Here's a gallery that our good buddy TK took:

Bowery Pics

Here's an awesome video that our comrade Megan put together from our Bowery show. Thanks Megan!

Games! Games! Games!

As many of you may already know, Jupiter One's album has been officially embraced and showcased in many of today's popular video games. You've heard us in Madden '08, FIFA '08, and NHL Hockey '08. Now EA Games has selected "Fire Away" to be used in the new crash, bash, and smash game Burnout Paradise.

To celebrate this new release, we've been featured on several online gaming magazines. Please check out these very unique interviews. These articles are probably the best Q&A's we've done yet!

Gaming Today interview click here

Game Chronicles interview click here

Game Zone interview click here

New pics from Great Scott's in Boston

Check out this photo album from our show in Boston in December. This was from a wild drunken night @ the Pill party thingy they have there in Boston every Friday. Photos were taken by Hannah Thiem from Copal. Thanks Hannah!

"Platform Moon" in a new Mazda6 TV commercial

In case you haven't heard, Jupiter One's song "Platform Moon" has been featured in a european Mazda tv campaign for the new Mazda6. From what we know, the Mazda ad or advert (as it`s being called over there) has been airing in the UK, Ireland, Russia, and Isreal so far. If you've seen it, then let us know!
Here it is below. zoom zoom.

A couple of clips

Here's a clip from our Mercury Lounge show. Look at K go!

Here's us in Spokane singing an AHA song...

Wrong Line Montage

Meghan had some free time and used this song for her video diary. Check out the choreography at 1 minute.

GUESS WHAT?!?!?!!!!

We're not going to Yellowstone National Park. Turns out they put it in some ridiculously out-of-the-way place. Maybe that's why it's such a big deal. Cause, who do you know that's even been there? That's what I thought.

Wow there's crazy mist in the mountains here in Washington. Wonder what state we'll pass through next on our journey back to beautiful New York City... Do you think it'll have WATERFALLS? Like THIS?


(Oregon)

By the way, I was asked to be on a panel of judges in a college battle of the bands. They asked me to be mean, like the guy on the karaoke TV show on Fox. I said No. The bands were good though. Very young. I felt old. And embarrassed, since I'm sure I don't have the authority to judge other bands.


(Celebrity Judge Zac Colwell)

Thanks Gonzaga University for having us. You rule Dominique.

Wish us safe travels folks. It's rainy out here in Washington.

x0

Pacific NorthWHAT!!!

Let me catch y'all up on what J1 has been doing lately. First, pull out your copies of the new Chromeo and Datarock albums, cause you're gonna want to hear that while I tell this. It's what we hear in the van.
We drove across the country. ALLL the way across, people. No kidding. New York to LA Bitch. (That's what we learned there in LA: you say "bitch" after whatever it is you said, bitch.)
The scenery was indescribable, so I won't. If you've done it then you know.
We played an awesome show at Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles (that's spanish for The Angeles). Thanks for everyone coming and making it an unforgettable first west coast show.
On and on we drove playing shows. A NACA conference in Spokane, a show in portland. In between there was a gig in Seattle at Skylark. Very cool bands there that we played with. Thanks Denelian and Wimbleweather for kicking ass and making us feel like part of a special community. Then we HAD to find sushi. We did. Rude hostess. Cool waitress. You know the deal.
Ok here's the best part: There Are Tunnels Underneath The City Of Portland Where They Used To Take People and Sell Them To Ship Captains!!!! It was called Shanhaing and at it's peak 3000 men a year disappeared between 1850 and 1941. We took a rad tour given by the SAME GUY Kellen saw on the History Channel. Sweet! There were definitely ghosts around. As I sit and type we are approaching Spokane once again to play at Gonzaga University... I think we were asked to judge a battle of the bands or something... um... before we play... I decide now - Everybody Wins!!! This will be our last show before we start the long drive back home... however, I think we may stop at Yellowstone, so I'll have the sure-to-be-bursting-with-excitement Dave Heilman write one more post about that :)
Gentlemen,
Good Evening.
Ladies,
Good Morning

Featured artist on EA TRAX!

Here's an article on Jupiter One on EA's main music page!

Album Review and Interview

Here's an album review by Jen Cray of INK 19
and The Daily Rockasked me a few questions....here's the answers :)


~Dave

MOJO Interview

Remember that Girl`s Gone Wild type film crew that showed up at our Mercury Lounge show?

Here`s the interview with some live footage.

WHAT HAS 39 FINGERS AND STALKS THE STREETS OF CINCINNATI??

Shortly after writing that last post, I stepped away from the hotel desk to find Zac jumping on the bed. His sudden burst of energy inspired me to grab his legs and engage him in the manliest of gladiator-like sports.....a "Tickle Fight." What I didn't know was that this act would send Zac into a state of regression, conjuring up childhood fears and past memories of tickle tragedies. The expression on his face changed to a vacuous, yet insane forest creature preparing for berserk mode.

Something like this:




In a blaze of tickle fury I had my right index finger kicked in and yanked while still grasping his jeans.....resulting in an injury called, "Jersey Finger." How amazing is that?!?!?! Apparently it happens to football players a lot....From this Howard's Club show till the end of the tour I was forced to play with 9 fingers AND in a drunken haze. Most people know that's usually not my move, but in order to bear the pain....drinks were extremely necessary. I apologize to everyone who met me beyond October 1st.....

Cookies help me feel better the next day.




The Bowling Green show was fun, despite the digit loss, and we played with some great guys who hung with us in Toledo the following night. (Nathan, Dave, Iron Mailen, and The Belles). We ate some tacos with Brock , Molly, and Linda, played with Earwig, then headed to Michigan the next morning. A SUPER long drive to the Upper Peninsula (practically Canada) but great views along the way. WE stopped at some giant lakes and tree-filled mountain ranges for frisbee drills.



No better place to be in the Fall than Michigan.



We got to Marquette and played UPFRONT & Co. for 2 nights. This place had a nice big stage, a great staff (Kendra, Kate, Stacey, Amanda, Lee, Seth), and the greatest crowds yet. They came to party....so did we. We spent a day there playing frisbee on the fringe of Lake Superior and walked half a mile along a rock jetty straight into the lake. We got to the end and climbed up a pedestal to a small lighthouse. There was a sign bolted on it that read: "KEEP 50 FEET AWAY WHEN ALARM SOUNDS." What good is that sign when you're 2 inches away?!?!?! You couldn't put that sign up BEFORE we climbed a ladder and are suddenly at risk of becoming deaf?!?!?! We fancied it a clever government practical joke...(as we bolted out of there).

Next stop was Cincinnati. Along the way K discovered a never-before-heard-of snack, "Beef Jerky Chew." Makes sense. I mean Hey, we ALL love Chewing Tobacco and we all love Beef Jerky....it was only a matter of time!





When we got Cincinnati our manager, Ryan, was waiting for us...excited as ever to join the tour. He just couldn't wait to share small hotel rooms and sleep with another guy in his bed....finally!




We got to The Poison Room, did a sound check with Tom, and walked around Main street meeting the natives. We spent hours leading a fruitless search for the studio of WKRP, but got to meet some interesting people. We found 2 daughters and their Mom changing clothes for "Adventure Day," a couple of nice girls headed to bars and some other baby-boomers headed to a Kid Rock concert? Really??!! Nice meeting you Leah, Sarah, Jill, Janie, Donna, Chelsea...hope to see you next time.
Wendy hooked us up at the bar, poor Mart and Anna got their car towed (hope that worked out buddy!), and Stacey, Matt, and Phil were hanging all night. Wendy did SUCH a good job that Zac and I re-enacted the "Jake E Lee Shreds" clip from YouTube. I supplied all of Ozzie's ridiculous hand claps while Zac "melted faces." If you haven't seen this yet, go check it out...high comedy.
Thanks to Halos Were Seen Landing There for playing some great music that night.

Our last and final show of the tour was in CLEVELAND! On the way to the club poor Brewy got busted by THE MAN! Speeding ticket for Jupiter One :(



Larry, Johnnie, and Cesar helped us close the tour out at Peabody's....the night started of with a great band called Run, Run, Addington and the small army of Madison East took the stage next. We got to play a really fun show (with the help of all their girlfriends) and Zac was so excited he gave K a swift headbutt during Platform Moon...K retaliated with a chest blow....I was hoping for an all out BRAWL, but the music just kept on going. One injured member is enough for now I suppose.......we're coming back home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BRING THE ILLINOISE

We rolled into town around 2 am. Although we were disappointed that we missed Robot Chicken, we managed to find plenty of entertainment through the ridiculous accent provided by Kate Beckinsale in "Van Helsing." After an hour of that we passed out and drove another 3 hours to Davenport, Iowa the next morning.

We recorded some of Mocha's keyboards into a sampler (she's in Japan for a couple days) and then left to play RIBCO in Rock Island. A good place for music and a great place to get drunk (giving the band a case). My family came out from MN to hang with us and Minus 6 closed down the place. Apparently they have a sax player in the band, Matt, who could be my body double. (He's 6'2" so he's actually more of a head double). K and Ben both mistook him for me about 6 times that night.


I met a local who taught me about the "Angry Pirate" after I educated him on the process of a "Tony Danza." We also got to hang with the infamous Jimmy Vaughn.....

The next night was in Bloomington, Normal, IL. Downtown baby! NV Ultra Lounge had a great bartender (thanks Dan!) and Harry was on point. Not many townies around, but Audrey and Sam were in it for the long haul...when that placed closed down we ran up to "Levi's" for some spontaneous music making, also known as "pickin'" by the Auburn natives. These guys have an apartment across the street filled with instruments and beer that is ALWAYS open. Apparently anyone can just walk in and start playing.....so we did.

Today we drove through Indianna, picked up the latest Shins, VHS or BETA, and Otis Redding for the van, and now we're gonna play Howard's Club in Ohio......