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12.20.09 - Day 3: Amarillo, Texas and the Great Spaghetti Feast

After waking up from that dreadful sleep the night before, everyone made their restroom rounds and got ready to head to Amarillo. The drive for that round was around 6 hours, if I remember correctly.

The most eventful thing about that drive was that, while finishing up the Jim Gafagin album, Balmore all of a sudden asked for us to pull over. I thought he had to piss but when he insisted we pull over soon, I knew what was gonna happen.

That’s Balmore throwing up! Haha! Something he ate messed him up pretty bad. He blamed it on the tuna he had gotten yesterday at Subway, but me, Conan, and Mario had some of it and we were feeling fine. So, we had no clue why he was feeling awful. It was pretty hilarious, though.

We got to the venue pretty early and waited for the show’s promoter to get there to let us in. Really, really cool lady. She greeted us all very nicely and chatted with us for a bit before we actually started the show stuff. We then unloaded everything. I restocked and laid out the merch. Then the feast began! Jessica, the before mentioned promoter lady, had cooked us a heap of spaghetti for us to grub on. All of us had our fill of the yummy pasta! With our tummies full, we got ready for the show. Sadly, the turn out wasn’t that great. But we did the best we could to make it an alright show. There was this band, Good News for the Oppressors, that were pretty hardcore. Towards the end of their set, the singer said something along these lines: “We love Jesus. And this next song is gonna knock Satan on his ass!” At first I thought they were joking around and the song would pick up. But no. They were drop dead serious. AND ON LORD (pun intended) IT WAS HILARIOUS! The song basically consisted of the lyrics “Jesus we love you” over and over. It was priceless. David was laughing so hard he was crying. It was great. We sold a few things, too, that night. Not a lot, but enough to make some dough.

Both bands finished up their sets and we got ready to take off once again. And as I was opening the trailer to start loading shit in, I noticed something rather odd about the door. One of those fag ass hardcore kids from the show straight tagged “straight edge” on our f’n trailer. And it they didn’t even do a good job. Shit looks wack. But none of really cared all that much. Haha. We didn’t really mind.

Well, we loaded everything in and hit the road once more after a quick stop at Taco Bell.

We only ended up driving for about an hour or so and pulled over in one of the nicest rest areas ever! Shit looked like a giant mall! It was pretty sweet! I didn’t get to check it out until the following morning though. More on that later, gater!

Quote of the day: “Don’t try to run away from us. I mean. The BEARS!” - Jim Gafagin





		TOURS DATES \| DIARIES \| PHOTOS \| VIDEOS DANIEL'S WINTER MAYHEM TOUR DIARY ------------------------------------PREVIOUS \| NEXT 12.20.09 - Day 3: Amarillo, Texas and the Great Spaghetti Feast After waking up from that dreadful sleep the night before, everyone made their restroom rounds and got ready to head to Amarillo. The drive for that round was around 6 hours, if I remember correctly. The most eventful thing about that drive was that, while finishing up the Jim Gafagin album, Balmore all of a sudden asked for us to pull over. I thought he had to piss but when he insisted we pull over soon, I knew what was gonna happen. That’s Balmore throwing up! Haha! Something he ate messed him up pretty bad. He blamed it on the tuna he had gotten yesterday at Subway, but me, Conan, and Mario had some of it and we were feeling fine. So, we had no clue why he was feeling awful. It was pretty hilarious, though. We got to the venue pretty early and waited for the show’s promoter to get there to let us in. Really, really cool lady. She greeted us all very nicely and chatted with us for a bit before we actually started the show stuff. We then unloaded everything. I restocked and laid out the merch. Then the feast began! Jessica, the before mentioned promoter lady, had cooked us a heap of spaghetti for us to grub on. All of us had our fill of the yummy pasta! With our tummies full, we got ready for the show. Sadly, the turn out wasn’t that great. But we did the best we could to make it an alright show. There was this band, Good News for the Oppressors, that were pretty hardcore. Towards the end of their set, the singer said something along these lines: “We love Jesus. And this next song is gonna knock Satan on his ass!” At first I thought they were joking around and the song would pick up. But no. They were drop dead serious. AND ON LORD (pun intended) IT WAS HILARIOUS! The song basically consisted of the lyrics “Jesus we love you” over and over. It was priceless. David was laughing so hard he was crying. It was great. We sold a few things, too, that night. Not a lot, but enough to make some dough. Both bands finished up their sets and we got ready to take off once again. And as I was opening the trailer to start loading shit in, I noticed something rather odd about the door. One of those fag ass hardcore kids from the show straight tagged “straight edge” on our f’n trailer. And it they didn’t even do a good job. Shit looks wack. But none of really cared all that much. Haha. We didn’t really mind. Well, we loaded everything in and hit the road once more after a quick stop at Taco Bell. We only ended up driving for about an hour or so and pulled over in one of the nicest rest areas ever! Shit looked like a giant mall! It was pretty sweet! I didn’t get to check it out until the following morning though. More on that later, gater! Quote of the day: “Don’t try to run away from us. I mean. The BEARS!” - Jim Gafagin