Indianapolis, Indiana.

Greetings from I-70. We’re en route from Ohio to Lake Latawana, Missouri. The weather is actually quite nice right now, blue skies with some clouds and sun, and dry roads. Woo hoo. We woke up at 8am on the nose this morning and we were pulling out of town by 8:30am, so we’re making good time to hopefully be able to relax a little bit before the show tonight.

It’s incredible how many windfarm machinery delivery trucks we’ve seen on the interstates on this trip – giant trucks moving giant pieces of machinery (usually blades from the wind turbines). We drove through a huge wind farm up near the Canadian border in Vermont, probably 100 turbines covering 300-400 acres of farmland. Just drove past three more trucks with blades as I was writing this sentence. Pretty neat. Hopefully the technological challenges of transporting the energy from the windmills will be figured out in this decade.

We just read the “Best of Boulder” list of winners from the Boulder Weekly magazine online, and the winner is an acapella group called “Face.” It was nice to see a talented group win it… the guys can definitely sing (and beat box). The down side is that they do 100% cover songs… so we’re back to the same issue again – making a successful career doing original music is damn tough. Form a cover band or play other people’s music from a laptop and you’ll fill venues. At one of the clubs we played this week, I was talking to the owner and he was saying that they’ve been forced to do live music only 3 days a week due to lack of people wanting to see live music, and that two of the nights are cover bands, and the other is a DJ (playing top 40 stuff)… and that he hates it. “It’s all the same shite,” he said. Amen, brother.

We’re cruising towards Indianapolis… just coming into the East side of the city. I’ll post another update later… hope you’re all enjoying your Saturday.