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European Headliner Part Three

You know the saying better late than never? This post very well might be an exception to that rule for the following reasons: 1)    I lost my camera and all the photos on it. So I have to use whatever is on my phone and John and David’s photos. 2)    Since being home I have had more beer poured on my face than a corpse at an Irish wake and remember little to nothing about the last couple weeks in Europe. 3)    Compared to the road where all there is a van full of dudes that I don’t really want to talk to after a couple weeks, at home there is a couch and cable to distract me. 4)    I took no notes about said last couple weeks because: 5)    I am really lazy Wiesbaden, Germany 4/27/12 I remember this place! It was an old slaughterhouse turned venue. Those rods on the ceiling are where they would hang the carcasses.  This is going to be easy. Winterhur, Switzerland 4/28/12 I got nothi...

All Sorts O' Crap!

Okay I have a lot of ground to cover here, so I’m going to give you the CliffsNotes version of the last couple days. St. Petersburg, FL. 3/20/11 -After getting the van fixed, we miss the New Orleans show and have to drive twenty-two hours straight to make St. Petersburg. By hour fifteen the van started to smell like energy drinks and sadness. -We rolled into town with just enough time for a cannonball our blues away. -John decided that I should be in a Danzig cover band and comes up with a new genre of rock for me to start called “Bumcore.” Orlando, FL. 3/21/11 -The stage was so high off the ground that the boys had to spend a day at base camp to get acclimated, then hire a Sherpa to continue on. They almost had to leave David to die when he twisted his ankle on an empty oxygen tank that one of the previous bands had left behind. -An ex cage fighter explained to David and Bryan why the best weapon in a street is a human turd on a stick. (no joke) -In continuing with the theme of this t...