Opening Weekend, Day 2 (Chicago)
Thursday a.m. We start rolling out of floor around 9 and decide to hit up some coffee at the Grind, and get to the practice space. After the days practice we’re all starting to feel like we might not embarrass ourselves at the first show tonight at the Beat Kitchen. Maybe we will though.
We started loading up the Element when we realized we had a lot of amps and merch…and not enough room for people. My skinny ass sat on a cupholder to the gig. Jeff and Ben took the bus. They took a bus. To our first show. Classic.
The LP’s showed up in all their colored vinyl glory. They really are beautiful. Big props to Dan for the investment, and big props to Ben for putting his artistic touch all over the record.
It started snowing and didn’t stop for a long time, 11 inches of it. It hurt the turnout at the show a bit, but we kind of cared less about that than the actual performance this night. The songs still aren’t being played natural, but we avoided any major song fall outs and managed to look like we knew what we were doing (didn’t we?). This is also the day that the common cold caught up with my and my voice was all but gone. Figures, right? Good thing we have Friday off to rest and practice up some more.
- Nathan