Studio Day1

Today we were lucky enough to get the opportunity to get to record at Big Rock Recording with engineer Steve Schneider; we recorded pretty much everything for Device.. minus the vocals. Also we got an alright practice in with our extra time in the studio… We’re looking forward to our first show tomorrow night at Café Racer.

News Flash... Eric got a knife pulled on him...

by two year old named Phoebe... no big deal

Anyway today we had the van blessed by Toni's mom. She's ready, now she just needs a name...

Next we met up with Toni's good friend Steve from Hawaii, he's pretty freakin rad...

Steve took us to Trading Musician to trade Toni's old amp in and get a throne and ride stand..

then he invited us to a bbq... and then took us into town to have ice cream at Molly Moon's...

and then took us to Kerry Park for an amazing view of the city.

Tomorrow we get to record at Steve's Studio... Big Rock Studio.

Shirts Man ,Shirts

Portland,,, ooooops... it wasn't until we arrived in Portland on Saturday that Grey discovered that Minus the Bear played the night before... so we made the best of it... honestly we had a rad rad time,,, we met up with our friend Austin who gave us the royal tour... taking us to a huge farmers market, then to Voodoo Donuts while kicking it with the KISS Army, then on to the Rose Festival drinking Dead Guy Ales on the waterfront and a killer little music shop... we took a break from the city with a mad game of ultimate frisbee at the park and then a walk about Portland to grab grub at Chipotle (toni's first) and then to catch some of the night life.

Overall Portland was amazing, minus the fact that no business trusts anyone to use the bathroom, we can't wait until next Wednesday. Thank you Austin and Erica!

On another note, collectively we're itching to play music... the reason we have so many prep days was because initially we were planning to go to the Sasquatch festival but the closer it got, realized that it was a bit too much money then we cared to spend at the very begining of tour... so instead of having 3 prep days and 3 festival day, we're stuck in limbo with 6 prep days,,, hopefully we'll get a quick practice tomorrow at Toni's friends place.

In other news we got pins and shirts and Luca Young agreed to master our tracks before the tour so that we have something to give some peeps. Thank you times a billion Luca!

Prep Day 5

We got our iron horse today and are now taking her for a spin to Oregon for an Absinthe Party with some subtraction bears (minus the bear)...

... the vans naming, ribbon cutting, grand opening, baptism and blessing will happen on the morning of June 1st

... also we have new shirts... pics and vids to come soon :)

Prep Day 4

Our soundtrack yesterday was:

-Mewithoutyou

-Toe

-Circa

-Minus the Bear

-Broken Social Scene

-Groundation

-Kings of Leon

We're going to pick up the shirts today :)

Prep Day 3 - VAN!

we got our van

Also we we witnessed a shooting tonight outside a club we were in... no one died

This little video is titled the day the music left

Day 2 - Prep

No van yet... round two of searching... our idea for the perfect chariot became a bit more refined by yesterday afternoon; coming across

-an orange straight 6 beast with mossy shag carpet and a captains porthole

- a grey 1989 luxury high roofed conve

rsion van

- a siiick white GMC with programable led lights and a rear bench that conve

rts into a full size bed

not finding the right van yesterday wasn't a bit disheartening, we actually got pretty lucky in that we found everything we need to play...

For Eric: a siiick drumset we named ursula

For Toni: a nice ampeg amp with wheels named Big Foot

and for Grey: a tiny tiny 200w ZT acoustic amp (which we have second feelings about)... named little wing

Today we put em to the test and go for round 2 of van shopping.. both hands fingers crossed!

Day 1 Prep-

Found 26 vans... now to shop :)... will update when we get the iron horse...

My computers keyboard/mouse is also broken... going to mac to fix it

Here's a little section where each member can say whatever they want:

Eric: "Takes a man to change... but it takes Denis Quaid not to."

Grey: "Stoked on van"

Toni: " I can't feel my face... brrrrr!"

Were here in 1 piece! Fingers crossed on van tomorrow:)

Itinerary... Thus Far

Itinerary... for those who need to know :) **

**subject to change

May 25th

- Eric arrives in Seattle 12pm

-Grey and Toni arrive in Seattle @ 4:30 PM (sorry Eric)

- Stay at Jenn's

May 26th

-Seattle, WA: Van Search

May 27th

-Seattle, WA: Drum Search

May 28th

- Seattle, WA: Fun

May 29th

- Portland, OR: Minus the Bear

- Stay at Malia's or Scott's or Austin's

May 30th

-Portland, OR: leave

- Seattle, WA: return

- Back to Jen's

May 31st

-Seattle, WA: Fun

June 1st

- Seattle, WA: play at Cafe Racer

June 2nd

-Portland, OR: play at The East End

June 3rd

- Portland, OR: Fun or Show

June 4th

- Salem, OR: play at The Space

June 5th

- Oakland, CA: play at Mamma Buzz

later that night company move to

-Walnut Creek, CA: play at Red House Studios

later that night company move to

- San Francisco, CA: Warehouse Art Show

- Stay with Noa or Ashley or Scott

June 6th

-Los Angeles, CA attend and maybe play at Cafe Hotel

-Stay with Evan

June 7th

-Fresno, CA maaaaayyyybe.... or stay in LA

June 8th

- Tucson, AZ: play at Red Room

- Stay with Paul

June 9th

- Tucson, AZ: play at Vaudeville

June 10th

- Phoenix, AZ

- Stay at Tiff's Pad

June 11th

- Prescott, AZ: maybe?

- Tiff's pad/ Campping?

June 12th

- Flagstaff, AZ: play at Monte V

- Stay at Monte V

June 13th

- Flagstaff, AZ: Fun

June 14th

- Flagstaff, AZ: Fun

June 15th

-Phoenix, AZ: Depart for Hawaii

So as of this very minute we're gearing up to play a show at Asterisk tonight @ 9:30 1939 Young st. with some of our best friends.. The Behaviorists, Persian Excursion, Narwhal, Circuit Creature and uvovu&yeda,,, not to be missed... seriously we're going to give so much that we bleed.

Also tomorrow after noon we Toni and Grey of SL will be playing some independent songs @ The Contemporary Museum around lunch... swing by... take a dip in the pool... have lunch... it's going to be rad.

Also we have a lot on our plate right now, but it's great cause we're starving but we also plan on staying that way... our stomachs are giant bottomless pits of musical ambition.

Today we ordered new shirts and buttons to take with us on tour... these will be waiting for us in Seattle... speaking of...

Tour:

On Monday, May 24th, Eric braves the trip to Seattle alone... we bought our tickets at separate times, thus we're traveling separate. He gets into Seatac @ noon on the 25th

Tuesday May 25th

Toni and Grey travel to Seattle and meet Eric at the airport @ 4p.. then the fabulous Jen will be picking us up and letting us use her truck and crash at her house while we shop for a van and gear... speaking of...

Gear:

van... this one is siiick! Once we have the van we'll focus on gear...

amp.. Grey found this cute thing today, it's a freaking 200w acoustic amp for under a grand,,, duh. also if we don't like it there's a 30 day return policy (perfect)

lights... not too shabby we think we can pick up everything we need for under 50 bucks.

then it's off to to Bear Math in Portland on the 28th before going back to Seattle to kick off our west coast tour June 1st @ Cafe Racer.

Also in other similar news it's been confirmed that the ever so talented, ever so smart, ever so sexy Mr. Keenan Kusnierczyk will be the 4th member of SL during this tour; his extracurricular time spent...manning merch tables, slamming beers, road DJ, photographer/videographer, rad guy, talking to peeps, dancing, wing manning Eric and basically kicking ass!

annnnnnd.... Go!

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