April 12, 2013

Hello, Backstagers! Russ here. Writing you from the van, heading east/northeast on I-76 in Eastern Colorado, almost to the Nebraska line. Went through a squall of rain and a bit of road construction for a while, but otherwise clear sailing… we should be right on schedule. This is our first tour with Mario, and so far no fights have broken out, so we might be okay.

We’ve got a bunch of new gear setups and a whole new run of merch for this tour, but we managed to pack the van perfectly. Everyone’s comfortable in the ‘cabin,’ and the gear looks like a perfectly stacked 83rd round Tetris level completion.

We play tonight at Doane College in Crete, Nebraska (just outside Lincoln). I think this is SoundRabbit’s 5th appearance  at Doane in the last 4 years, though some of those show were duo acoustic. Tonight we shall rock full band in a big basketball gym. Rockin’ arenas, oh ya.

So far Fred (resident DJ) has rocked about an hour of Yacht Rock… Foreigner, Chicago, and the like. We’re now grooving to SoulLive, which has us all feeling a bit less romantic but much more groovy.

Okay, just wanted to get a first post up for the trip… write you again from Crete, maybe before the show, or afterwards from the hotel. Thanks for joining us on the road!