day 15

Charlotte, NC. AGAIN! Only this time it's a big place - Amos'. Wow, only took a week for the word to spread from the Evening Muse to get us into a huge place, huh?
We played with a really good band called The Young Sons, and later shot over to the 'Muse and caught the end of Trances Arc. They are really bad ass.

So, as usual, lots of time to kill results in lots of lessons from Dave on democracy to Roscoe the dog on eating from the table (he's into Tocqeuville for some reason),


while i just watch K, enthralled with his vest and hair






Let's not forget the Happy Panda!


Ladies, introducing the Carolina Gentleman


Dave tearin' it up on the Fender Mexico


Even Pat seems surprised to find an old high school friend in LITERALLY every city we go to! Thanks for coming out, Matt


Trash Talkin'. R.I.P. guitar case


Bye bye Charlotte. Thank you Donnie and Laurie. See you soon.

Day 14

Greenville, SC has no pictures. Also, nothing noteworthy happened. Except that the country doctor was carried 10 miles through a blizzard by unknown horses the likes of which he'd never seen.
Thanks to Felipe and Luke and the crew for the after hang!! Special thanks to Nicole for the sandwiches. I'm sorry we forgot to pay for them. We owe you, with interest.

z

Day 13

Well, here we are again in Nashville. Last time we were here at the Basement was a rad time. This time we played at some place called the Mercy Lounge where you need to actually buy tickets to get in...
So we jerked around backstage where the real party was at. JABE, Beau, and Rachel came to hear us. That's vodka in that potato chip bag. Dave's ingenious cloak for the magic clear liquid went undetected up until he got scolded for drinking it onstage. Sometimes I wonder if Dave thinks he's invisible when he's not.


Dave got down


And downer


Somebody ate Pat's snack. "Where's my snack?"


There's always tomorrow, though... I seem to forget that sometimes. I'm reading all the reminders I texted myself the night before that I forgot to do. Now it's too late.


Thanks so much again to Beau and Rachel for putting us up again and for being part of our very exclusive fan base!
Kudos to Rachel for keeping up the jump suit. I wish we got a pic of you and K in your J-suits together.

z

Day 12

Still goin strong y'all.
Hattiesburg Mississippi.
Rolled in and got right to it








Dave wrote a Christmas song about Waffle House that he hopes to get played on their jukebox there.
I'm not kidding.


Mugshot's was the place we pulled up to and were assigned to play at. They had a claw machine game that had the stuffed animals taken out and lobsters put in. If you catch one, they'll cook it, a sign declares. I thought I heard them begging to be caught. Ian from People in Planes definitely wanted to get one of those bastards.


The gig was pretty rowdy with people dancing on the speakers and shit. College types.
Thanks to Kasey and Melinda's sorority for putting us up for the night. I don't think they cleared it with the board.
Very sweet girls, those two. Just look at that smile



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Day 11

Baton Rouge.
I'll say it again: This place was named after the French enterprisers there saw stakes with heads on them, staining the stick red, which marked territory for a local Native community (no one in the 'Rouge has been able to cite the name of the tribe).

We met up with People In Planes here. They'd just come from Austin which I know very well is a long drive. Of course we celebrated their successful drive by kickin back a few.


Mike runs Click's Bar there and was totally awesome. It was motherfuckinsaintpatty'sday so we did some irish car bombs next door.

We had a lot of time to hang at Click's so we played some darts and stuff. I kicked Happy Panda's ass at air hockey.






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DAY 10!

New Orleans hell yeah!
Mamma don't allow no music-playin round here
Mamma don't allow no music-playin round here
Well I don't care what mamma don't allow
Gonna play that music anyhow
Mamma don't allow no music-playin round here

Skunk in the barnyard -peeyew
Somebody ate it -that's you
How did it taste? . . . just right.
When did you eat it? -

ok nevermind that. what was i - OH YEah New Orleans.



Just call us Ocean's 4

Dave had never been to the Crescent City before so to celebrate we started drinking at noon, gave each other new names and did whatever we wanted, like trespassing:


Yeah we love taking pictures in or near other peoples' vehicles...
Guess what? The city even knew we were bringing our very own Happy Panda!



I had a great time at Maple Leaf last time I was in town, so after we yucked it up on Bourbon St. for a few, I typed the old 'Leaf into the GPS and it turned out it was right by Circle Bar, where we'd be playing. My point is that this proximity basically DEMANDED that we dedicate the rest of the evening to drinking at the Maple Leaf. We met a sweet man there who told us stories and a sweet bartender, Tracey, who got us feelin' good. Then back to the back patio where we met some other out of towners who were extremely generous and us very receptive.

We tickled Happy Panda for our own amusement




Circle bar was under renovation, so they brought in a little P.A. system and we played in the bar. No Problem. You want Rock. You got it. Thanks to The Teenage Prayers for kickin ass there and Justin for runnin' a cool room and hooking us up. Special thanks to Dave for bringing us to town! See y'all soon.


z

day 9

Apparently we went to a town called Montgomery which we knew precious little about outside of one of the saddest moments of the 20th century.
Apparently we played at a club called Off the Wagon.
These are facts and all I'd care to share.

z

dDay 808

Got another day to hang in Atlanta. Got a gig tonight. Hey guys what do you want to do.
SHOPPING!!!
I got those jeans I wanted. Dave and Pat got some sexy shirts. For some reason we don't have any pictures of the Little Five Points hang, but it was very cool. Some good vintage shops and I finally replaced my lost copy of Donny Hathaway Live (Orig not the other one from the same performances, fffft).
For some reason we don't have many pics of ATL at all. Did it happen. It's hard to tell.
Here's what we know.
We walked on stage dURING that badass tornado that tore up ATLANTA.
Course we didn't know it was a tornado till the next day.


Here's more of what we know definitely happened:

A bold kitty was rewarded for his boldness with dunkin donuts crumbs, which he washed down with puddle water,


we played a really fun show at 10 high club,


partied with some WILD locals. (There's Ryan and Sam again!)


And, apparently, i sang karaoke with the live karaoke band there after we played. I don't recall that, but it's hard to argue with a digital camera


hmmmmm. I wonder where we're going next


z

Day 7

HotLanta Bitchezzz!!!!



We came into GA to play a college conference. All was well until Zac started saying something about my Mom....



We took a walk so K could follow up on his stocks....



...scolded some local artwork...



Gave our best "Bad-AssLanta" look (except for K)



...bought a Nerf football named Jimothy (Kyle for short).



After Zac "dressed' his bench-hurdling wound, i had him "go long" and then threw a swift one to his front snack.







that's for Mom.

We had all day to do nothing and by the time our performance came up, we were.....well......this:




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Day 6

So we woke up on Ryan's floor, Pat did one of his famous hang-over runs around the foreign neighborhood, we packed the Blaze, and headed out to Charlotte, NC. We played at Evening Muse with a really cool band called The Stellas. Thanks triple S for hooking that up...




We met a Saint by the name of Donnie. He invited the whole band to stay the night and the lovely Laurie hooked us up with Plenty 'O' Top Snacks.




Their Dog Rosco liked some of us more than others....



...we watched My Morning Jacket DVDs all night (Donnie's bro is the keyboardist), took family portraits in the kitchen...



...Zac and I snuggled up in the living room...



...and woke up to an amazing pancake breakfast. How Rad is Don and Laurie?!?!?!

Thanks guys!

D

Day 5

This was the day before the sixth day. The sixth day has already come and gone. We're a day behind. In blog form you'll read this after you read day 6. For that matter, disregard this first part. Now regard:

Pat ALSO looks cool while driving!




......to.........

COLUMBUS, GA
This was an interesting town. The bar was very cool, but was located in the 'burbs in a kind of strip mall. Great sound system and an enthusiastic crowd. Lisa hooked us up with some booze and laughs. THANKS TIGER.



Pat and Zac are Happy Pandas in this panda series installment.



Ryan showed up and brought the NOISE. Then he brought us to his house in Atlanta. Thanks so much Rob and Ryan for the hospitality. We had a blast.



That seemed like a short day, huh?

z