" Bright Red Paper Tour Diary" Archive
Bright Red Paper: Sweet Pea Festival, Bozeman, Montana
2 CommentsPosted on Sunday, August 6th, 2006
We have decided that we should play for 3,000 people every day and be put up in Hilton Hotels every night. There is just no other way to live. What a great grand finale to our tour. They brought us to the stage in shuttles as if we were Guns ‘N’ Roses or something.This Hilton […]
Bright Red Paper: En Route to Bozeman, MT
4 CommentsPosted on Friday, August 4th, 2006
Driving into the sunset, headed west, coming home. We have two shows left of this debacle of a tour, on which we have lost such things as:
Four toothbrushes (all lost by Doug)
An ATM card (Dan)
A cell phone (Dan)
A power steering unit (Bunbury)
A transmission (Bunbury)
And almost our lives, numerous times.
It’s nice having a night not performing […]
Bright Red Paper: Chicago Again…
1 CommentPosted on Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006
It was five degrees hotter today in Chicago than it was in Death Valley. The heat index has hit 110+ over the past two days. The AC where the rest of the band was staying last night went out. (I’m still at The 1900’s’s house, which is nice and cool. I’d imagine everyone is staying […]
South Union Arts Center, Chicago, IL
0 CommentsPosted on Monday, July 31st, 2006
Dan and Arcellus are swimming in a pool in Delafield, Wisconsin right now. (It’s 1:15am.) Eben’s reading. I’m getting eaten by mosquitoes while writing to Portland. Whiskey has been consumed. Tomorrow we are spending our slow Sunday playing a pool party and a retirement home.
Seriously – that’s not the whiskey talking. I actually didn’t drink […]
Ridin’ The Train in the Quad Cities
6 CommentsPosted on Friday, July 28th, 2006
I was humbled today to learn that The Quad Cities of Iowa and Illinois are indeed not the home of the Quad City DJs. As we pulled into town, Arcellus was happily singing the “ride the train / c’mon it’s a choo-choo train,” song; but my cousin informed me that they are from a different […]
Cello Solidarity in Minneapolis
3 CommentsPosted on Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
“Cello solidarity” has become a buzz-phrase in my life this year. We cellists need to stick together. Why isn’t the cello more popular than the guitar? I really think it’s time for a paradigm shift in the music world. What other instrument can you dance with? What other instrument allows you such a huge range […]
The Mars Cafe in Des Moines, IA
3 CommentsPosted on Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Nobody is coming up to talk to me tonight, so I’m kind of bored, and too shy to go talk to anyone. Although there is no shortage of beautiful women here to talk to, I’m going to hide in my computer and write to Portland. We just rocked a packed Mars Café here in Des […]
Talking Fashion in Kansas City, MO
1 CommentPosted on Monday, July 24th, 2006
Tonight in KC the most fashionable woman at the show came up to me and asked me where my intensity comes from – “I’m not sure from what depths all of that intensity comes, but I really like it,” she said.
She was wearing all blue, clearly nearly-priceless pointed heels, jewels in her ears and around […]
Rolling on in Laramie, Wyoming, July 21
1 CommentPosted on Friday, July 21st, 2006
When we were originally agreed to do this tour diary for Local Cut we were going to take a sort of fictional angle, acting like we were hitchhiking with all of our gear for our entire three-week tour. A couple of days ago we came frighteningly close to actually having to hitchhike with all of […]
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