August 2008

I’m about to hit the rack, but I wanted to update the Road Journal to thank the kind friends, fans, and new friends/fans whose company we enjoyed on Saturday night up in Fort Collins. We played in the backyard of a home on the Colorado State University campus, and got a good recording of the set, which has now been tracked and uploaded here to the Backstage (under “Music” > “Live Tracks”). The police came and killed the concert after 5 songs, but we had a ball up until that point and got in a decent set of tunes. It was a great way to kick off a busy week for us (along with the CU show on Friday night)…

It’s just a bookshelf…

…NO…it’s the coolest bathroom door ever made!

Tuesday and Wednesday we’ll be up at Little Bear in the mountains, for two 3-hour shows that we should get a very good recording of for y’all to download later in the week. Hope the weekend treated you all well… more later from Evergreen in 36 hours!

Well, we had a great show last night at the University of Colorado here in Boulder. We headlined their “WelcomeFest” event, with The Heyday supporting. Those guys are great guys and they’re touring all over the place, so check them out and if you dig the sound, go to a show or three and buy some merch to help cover their gas! Here’s how the setlist panned out:

ZED
Story Of…
Hazel
Obey –>
Life During Wartime
View From Way Up Here
Marula Binge
Don
Nightlite Jesus
Heat
Eoghan, Late Saturday
Park
Emil
Turn My Egg

The mix was a bit weird in the room… vocals were distorted among a few other things… but the recording came out decently, so we’ve posted a bunch of it to the “live music” section of the Backstage for your listening pleasure. You’ll have to excuse some vocal pitchy-ness, as we were basically unable to hear ourselves on stage. Gotta love nights like that. Anywho, we met some great folks after the show, who left with CD’s and t-shirts to help spread the word to the CU student population. Woo-hoo. Tonight we head up to Fort Collins, CO to play a Colorado State University “welcome back” party. Some of our favorite friends and fans are hosting it, so we’re really excited to go enjoy their company and share some music for an evening. We’ll post the setlists here for both shows some time tomorrow. This is a great week – 5 shows, concluding with the big Democratic Nat’l Convention show on Friday… and then two weeks later, our first show at Red Rocks Ampitheatre! Thanks to all of you who are helping make all of this great stuff happen… more later!

Hello from the mountains of Wyoming. Russ here, spending the weekend up where the mercury rides a bit lower… approximately 15 degrees lower, to be precise. On an already chilly weekend (highs in the 50’s tonight in Denver), I’m enjoying the wintry crisp air in the Snowy Range. This will be a quick update, as I’m going to post in my blog in a moment… but I wanted to let you Road Journal readers know that our October tour is coming together very nicely, with some great rooms that we’ll be rockin’. The Road Journal will be full of new notes, as we’ll be taking the southerly route (I-70) to the East Coast this time, rather than the I-80 route we’ve taken in the past. I’m looking forward to checking out the truck stops of Kansas, writing to all of you from Nashville, and snapping some new “RBT” photos from landmarks from D.C. to the Canadian border. Woo-hoo. Thanks for reading and for all of the emails you send us on the road. We appreciate it more than you know… more later from the road!