Waxa Tour Diary - Day Whatever

Hey folks, sorry I dropped off, but it's a little harder to write every day. I don't have the cozy comfort of the bus to wake up to and am spending many hours in the less cozy back seat of a sprinter van. It's cool though, and I do have lots of time backstage when the other bands are on, and I'll try to get more of these up during those hours.

It's been fun! The show at the Treehouse in Deerfield, MA was a little slice of heaven. It was outdoors, behind the Treehouse Brewery where they had nice, comfortable rooms for all of us to hang out in. They pride themselves on brewing some of the finest IPAs in the Northeast. Unfortunately my pallet doesn't give a shit about that and thinks that all IPAs take like ASS. But they had some fantastic pizzas and everyone was very nice and accommodating.

The band and I were warmed up from Central Park, but I was nervous to be playing for Waxahatchee's audience. But I received a warm welcome... and I think I won most everyone over. My jokes got laughs, and I got people movin' and groovin'. It was a great relief to know this wasn't a disastrous idea.

Right off the bat, I spotted an old friend in the crowd. I knew they were coming, but I didn't except to see him right there in front of me. Tom Gorman had been one of my best friends from first grade until we both left town for college. We lost touch over a girl (nothing terribly dramatic but enough I guess to drop off... and in the days before social media that was pretty easy to do) I spotted him right away because he was wearing our old band The Pulsating Libidos t-shirt! Holy shit. It nearly knocked me out to see it. He was there with his parents who I knew and knew me since I was 7... I got Tom backstage right after the set and we had a very warm reunion. Tom is an emergency room doctor and an artist on the side and I immediately had a strong desire to have him back in my life. We had an easy time, catching up and joking around. I spent some more time catching up with his parents "how's your sister? what's new with your kids, etc etc..." and left to rest my voice, but exchanged numbers with Tom and promised to keep in touch.

It was off to Portland Maine next where we played inside at the State Theater. Not as nice backstage accommodations with a maze of dangerous steps and underground passage ways to get in and out.  

I was up first (me and Snail Mail seem to be alternating who gets up there first) But there was already a pretty packed house in their seats and standing up in the well and again we were met with a really nice and warm reception... jokes clicked, band boogied and I think I'm winning hearts and minds.

This post in reference to our song "Nothing" gave me hope that there's some logic in doing this little run:

before the show Ellie, Connor and Matt had a fabulous lunch at Rose Foods, a jewish deli, smoked fish, bagel sorta deal which was extremely wha I needed. Oof, it was good. I even bought a shirt. that's my move on this tour, gonna try and stock up on some good local t-shirts to pander to the crowd a hip up my wardrobe.

Ellie went to the Waxa soundcheck and the rest of us strolled Portland. A pretty day, with sunshine and mild temps she was... I got hoodwinked into buying a donut at a place called The Holy Donut... as it beckoned us: A Potato Donut! A potato donut? what's that? that sounds unique and interesting and something I have to try even though I just had a bagel and matzo ball soup... Well, it turns out a potato donut is just a plain old shitty donut. who gives a shit?

up early and on the road to Accord, NY (and you know I'm making a Honda Accord joke tonight!)

BTW, glad to see you all diggin the Unplugged Ep this week. Lots of fun to just sit around and clown with ma boyz.

More soon...

P&L, T