It's been a long day. I'm riding shotgun in the van right now and Tyler is our captain for the evening. The others are sleeping right now. Ty and I took the first shift. It's 2:05 AM.
We started the day around 6AM yesterday morning because we had to be in Killen, AL at 2PM for a pep rally at Brooks High School. I know, sounds weird, but it was actually amazing. We had a blast. We haven't really played the area but the radio station, WMSR STAR94, in Tuscumbia, AL has been playing us in heavy rotation. So the kids at the pep rally were extremely welcoming and quite excited that we were there. We met Fat Guy (yes that's his name. I'm not just being mean and calling him fat). He's a DJ at Star94 and a great guy. He introduced us to the crowd and we went out to the middle of a roaring gym full of students with just my acoustic guitar and a mic. They didn't have a mic stand so Zach had to hold my mic the whole time haha. We performed "Seventeen at Three in the Morning." I asked all the cheerleaders to come out to the middle of the gym with us and help with the stomps and claps. They followed Taylor's lead and the rest of the gym followed them. It was really cool. They knew the song and sang along and stomped their feet and clapped their hands... It was kind of like living out our music video. A pretty neat experience to say the least.
After the pep rally, we went over to the radio station and recorded a hilarious, inappropriate, and mostly unusable interview haha But Fat Guy pieced something together and aired it later that night.
We tried to rest for a while after that because we knew we had a long night ahead of us. Unfortunately, we couldn't really sleep so we headed over to this little diner called "Southland" I think. We try to eat at every little "mom and pop" type diner we can find on our journeys. They're so much more interesting than chain restaurants. The staff, the customers, the history of the restaurant. And the menus are usually rather interesting. We all loaded up on some good ol Alabama country cookin. As usual, we scared most of the other customers away shortly after we arrived and we drove our waitress crazy... but she was pretty amused by us.
By then, it was almost time to load in at the club. We played at Old Town Tavern. It was the cd release show for a band called "Firewood." They were really nice guys and we had a great time with them. Check them out on myspace. Hopefully we'll have some Van-Cam Footage for you guys soon.
That pretty much catches us up to now... The long and winding road home. We'll probably get home around 7AM, hit the sack for a few hours, and then get up and drive to Charlotte, NC. We're playing a show with our friends Hot Vegas at The Evening Muse. All in a day's work...
Wish us luck!
-Luke
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