Dude seriously..... OK I live in Phoenix, AZ and ya its pretty f-n hot there but holy shit! Last night was a sweat factory! Earlier in the night we were just sitting in the dressing room, not doing anything but sitting and we were sweating our asses off. It was at that moment that I realized, the show would be insane. I think we had about 750 people last night and the ceiling was dripping! After the show I was at merch and my glasses were slipping off my face all night. HOT-lanta! REHAB I don't know how you guys do it man. OK well that is all I just wanted to whine about how hot it was last night hahahhah! Over all the show ROCKED and we had a blast as usual!
Until next time~
CHEERS!
Friday, May 23, 2008
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
30 hours later
We land in Atlanta. We left yesterday morning and trucked it straight on through to Atlanta to meet back up with the PW tour. We are pretty stoked about now cause bill used priceline to hook up hotels and for the rest of this run we are staying at 3 star hotels for only 50 a night! Tonight is just relax and watch tv... soak in the silence before the tour begins again tomorrow...
CHEERS!
JIM
CHEERS!
JIM
Saturday, May 17, 2008
.... where to begin
So ya, I've really been slacking on the blog hahah! With the launch of the new Ransom shirt and all that has been put into getting Ransom's site the way I want it I've really neglected my blog and I have to apologize for that. Authority Zero.com is also consuming my time. Trying to fix cross browser bugs is a real pain in my butt but hey that's why I don't do web design for a living! I find it much easier to beat on things and make noise! :)
So the Pennywise tour has been cruising along and we've had plenty of fun times and stories so far. Every day seems to have a new adventure in store for us!
OK lets see.... hold on while i check out some photos to refresh my memory........
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Alright so we'll go back to Texas. Somewhere between Houston and Austin Strung Outs van threw a rod. (engine blew up) We got the call right when we got to the venue in Austin so our merch guy Brian opted to drop the trailer and go get Strung Out and there gear and bring them back. So 4 hours later we are on stage trying to keep songs going because they are still not here and we need to fill in time. Finally we do our last song and about 5 minutes later they come running in with there guitar. Jumping up on stage to play all they can in about 30 minutes about 2 or 3 songs in a beer bottle flies up to the stage and hits Jake (guitar) in the face! Not only the face but right at his eye. He runs off stage holding his eye and they take him to the hospital. Luckily there was no severe damage, he was stitched with 3 or so stitches and sent on his was. The rest of the band had no idea what happened till they where done, so they finished there set and the show went off! I'm now trying to find Jake a pirate eye patch! If any of you out there are coming out to a show between now and the end of the tour please find me an eye patch with a skull and cross swords on it so we can dress Jake up in some proper ransom gear! ahahah!
To continue.... The show finishes up with Pw killing it as usual and we all get loaded up. Most of the band members end up in the back bar hanging out and talking about the day until bus call comes at 1. A few of Strung Out heads for the Pw bus and the others opt to ride with us for the next day. Although bus call for Pw was at 1 Randy and Jim from Pw came off the bus cause they we're going to fly home the next day (day off). So now it's Jason, Brian, Bryan, Jim, Randy and I all hanging out in the back bar getting hammered and at some point in time Jim bought us all Emo's T-shirts (venue we played at). Now I'm not sure when compelled him to do this but hey I'm not going to complain cause they have rad shirts hahah! Finally Emo's kicks us out at about 2:30 or so and we head down the street for some slices of pizza. Hanging out at the pizza shop an homeless dude comes up with a guitar and naturally we all start requesting songs. This guy is totally schooled on his punk rock. He started playing Black Flag, Bad Religion and the Descendants. At some point in time during all the song request our merch guy (wasted) says "do you know any Pennywise songs?". The guy looks at us and says, "Pennywise is just a bunch of Black Flag rip offs!". We are all amazed and laughing out asses off at this but the best part was that Jim turns, looks at us, and shrugs like "yea, pretty much". I thought that was really cool. Those bands influenced Pennywise like Pennywise influenced us and its cool to see that he just agreed even though that's not entirely true. I'm sure he was just agreeing kind of like paying respect to the bands that helped mold them, but thats just a guess from me.
So 3 slices of pizza and 10 punk rock songs later this night finally comes to a halt. We hailed a couple cabs to get us back to the hotel, I'm not sure but i think i passed out before my head hit the bed that night, lord knows i had plenty of help from the Whiskey.
The next day was a day off and we drove from Austin, TX to Albuquerque NM. Now the cool part is we have Bob and Chris from Strung Out with us so there is fresh faces and fresh stories to be shared along this loooong boring drive! Along this drive at some point in time we stopped to pee and Chris told Bob to climb on top of this water tower to pee, so he did. Next thing you know Chris come running out yelling "Bob you f!@#$# peed on me!" hhahaha I got some of this on video so you'll be able to watch it soon. We kept going on our journey and low and behold we find CHUY'S! Now this isn't the normal Chuy's you find all over the nation this one is in the middle of no where off the highway and somehow we run into this place on accident. This was the 3rd time we've hit this place on our travels and we are stoked! What's cool about this place is that its the home
of the John Madden hall of fame! I guess the short story goes that he was on a drive looking for a place to watch the game and he ran into this place. He enjoyed it so much that he started mentioning it in magazines and interview so he really put them on the map, (we don't own that map hahah). I have to say this place is kick ass! The food is great the people are great and you just cant go wrong with good ol John Madden hahahahhah! We had a great meal and finished up our journey to Albuquerque NM.
The following day we headed to the radio station to talk about the show and I have to say it was all out antics! I really don't want to give it away cause i have it on video but I'll say that it involves a tazer and our merch guy..... good times.
OK well i think that's all for now!
cheers!
OH! p.s. i also got our bassist doing some really crazy things with the tazer in the van.... video.... soon....
So the Pennywise tour has been cruising along and we've had plenty of fun times and stories so far. Every day seems to have a new adventure in store for us!
OK lets see.... hold on while i check out some photos to refresh my memory........
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.
Alright so we'll go back to Texas. Somewhere between Houston and Austin Strung Outs van threw a rod. (engine blew up) We got the call right when we got to the venue in Austin so our merch guy Brian opted to drop the trailer and go get Strung Out and there gear and bring them back. So 4 hours later we are on stage trying to keep songs going because they are still not here and we need to fill in time. Finally we do our last song and about 5 minutes later they come running in with there guitar. Jumping up on stage to play all they can in about 30 minutes about 2 or 3 songs in a beer bottle flies up to the stage and hits Jake (guitar) in the face! Not only the face but right at his eye. He runs off stage holding his eye and they take him to the hospital. Luckily there was no severe damage, he was stitched with 3 or so stitches and sent on his was. The rest of the band had no idea what happened till they where done, so they finished there set and the show went off! I'm now trying to find Jake a pirate eye patch! If any of you out there are coming out to a show between now and the end of the tour please find me an eye patch with a skull and cross swords on it so we can dress Jake up in some proper ransom gear! ahahah!
To continue.... The show finishes up with Pw killing it as usual and we all get loaded up. Most of the band members end up in the back bar hanging out and talking about the day until bus call comes at 1. A few of Strung Out heads for the Pw bus and the others opt to ride with us for the next day. Although bus call for Pw was at 1 Randy and Jim from Pw came off the bus cause they we're going to fly home the next day (day off). So now it's Jason, Brian, Bryan, Jim, Randy and I all hanging out in the back bar getting hammered and at some point in time Jim bought us all Emo's T-shirts (venue we played at). Now I'm not sure when compelled him to do this but hey I'm not going to complain cause they have rad shirts hahah! Finally Emo's kicks us out at about 2:30 or so and we head down the street for some slices of pizza. Hanging out at the pizza shop an homeless dude comes up with a guitar and naturally we all start requesting songs. This guy is totally schooled on his punk rock. He started playing Black Flag, Bad Religion and the Descendants. At some point in time during all the song request our merch guy (wasted) says "do you know any Pennywise songs?". The guy looks at us and says, "Pennywise is just a bunch of Black Flag rip offs!". We are all amazed and laughing out asses off at this but the best part was that Jim turns, looks at us, and shrugs like "yea, pretty much". I thought that was really cool. Those bands influenced Pennywise like Pennywise influenced us and its cool to see that he just agreed even though that's not entirely true. I'm sure he was just agreeing kind of like paying respect to the bands that helped mold them, but thats just a guess from me.
So 3 slices of pizza and 10 punk rock songs later this night finally comes to a halt. We hailed a couple cabs to get us back to the hotel, I'm not sure but i think i passed out before my head hit the bed that night, lord knows i had plenty of help from the Whiskey.
The next day was a day off and we drove from Austin, TX to Albuquerque NM. Now the cool part is we have Bob and Chris from Strung Out with us so there is fresh faces and fresh stories to be shared along this loooong boring drive! Along this drive at some point in time we stopped to pee and Chris told Bob to climb on top of this water tower to pee, so he did. Next thing you know Chris come running out yelling "Bob you f!@#$# peed on me!" hhahaha I got some of this on video so you'll be able to watch it soon. We kept going on our journey and low and behold we find CHUY'S! Now this isn't the normal Chuy's you find all over the nation this one is in the middle of no where off the highway and somehow we run into this place on accident. This was the 3rd time we've hit this place on our travels and we are stoked! What's cool about this place is that its the home
of the John Madden hall of fame! I guess the short story goes that he was on a drive looking for a place to watch the game and he ran into this place. He enjoyed it so much that he started mentioning it in magazines and interview so he really put them on the map, (we don't own that map hahah). I have to say this place is kick ass! The food is great the people are great and you just cant go wrong with good ol John Madden hahahahhah! We had a great meal and finished up our journey to Albuquerque NM.The following day we headed to the radio station to talk about the show and I have to say it was all out antics! I really don't want to give it away cause i have it on video but I'll say that it involves a tazer and our merch guy..... good times.
OK well i think that's all for now!
cheers!
OH! p.s. i also got our bassist doing some really crazy things with the tazer in the van.... video.... soon....
Thursday, May 8, 2008
PW Tour update
Ok ok so I know its been a while since my last post... don't hold it against me I've been quite the busy bee for the last week. I've got quite a bit to catch up on so here goes....
Tour has been great so far! We started in California doing a few headlining shows warming up for the Pennywise tour. The Headlining shows were great! I particularly liked the show we did in Hermosa Beach. We played a place called St. Rocke. I guess this place once was a major punk dive bar but new owners moved in or something and remodeled the place. Its beautiful! We had dinner at the venue and let me tell you it was fantastic! That night I got to hang out with a super old and dear friend Mandy and her boy Mark. We had a blast hanging out at the bar and it was super good to see the 2 of them again.
The next day we headed down to south Sandiego for a show with Hot Water Music, The Vandals, and Unwritten Law. We played an out door venue at a casino and the show went off! i think total attendance was 1600 people and it was a great crowd. I got to talk to the guys from Hot Water Music for a while and they are some really great people! We hung out for the night, watched all the bands play and then headed to our hotel.
So the next few shows went by and they were all good, nothing to freak out over though. Day 1 of PW tour started in Utah. We rolled up to the venue which looked like a sultans castle and the place was HUGE! Although the venue was surrounded by absolutely nothing i managed to get a pretty cool shot of the sunset over the salt lake.....
That night we knocked out our 30 minute set and just killed it! We are super stoked to be out with these guys and have the chance to get our crowd to the next level.
Last night was Denver (soon to be my home city). Last night was unbelievable! We played at the Filmore Theater, the last time we played this place we had an incident we came to know as "The Denver Massacre", for those of you who know, you know what I'm talking about. for those of you who don't, don't worry we didn't murder anyone hahah.... ask me sometime in person and I'll clue you in. The show was solid last night. We played 40 minutes and played a new set list that D.J wrote. I must say D.J. really knows how to write a set! It was perfect! After the show we hung out with some friends from the area and had a good time. Bill, D.j., and I ended up at the Denver Diner for a late night snack before hitting the hotel, and then we crashed out. All in all the run so far has been fantastic! Thanks for reading and if you want to see more photos you can check out my gallery online. Click here or use the PW Tour link at the top of the page.
Cheers!
JIM
Tour has been great so far! We started in California doing a few headlining shows warming up for the Pennywise tour. The Headlining shows were great! I particularly liked the show we did in Hermosa Beach. We played a place called St. Rocke. I guess this place once was a major punk dive bar but new owners moved in or something and remodeled the place. Its beautiful! We had dinner at the venue and let me tell you it was fantastic! That night I got to hang out with a super old and dear friend Mandy and her boy Mark. We had a blast hanging out at the bar and it was super good to see the 2 of them again.
The next day we headed down to south Sandiego for a show with Hot Water Music, The Vandals, and Unwritten Law. We played an out door venue at a casino and the show went off! i think total attendance was 1600 people and it was a great crowd. I got to talk to the guys from Hot Water Music for a while and they are some really great people! We hung out for the night, watched all the bands play and then headed to our hotel.
So the next few shows went by and they were all good, nothing to freak out over though. Day 1 of PW tour started in Utah. We rolled up to the venue which looked like a sultans castle and the place was HUGE! Although the venue was surrounded by absolutely nothing i managed to get a pretty cool shot of the sunset over the salt lake.....
That night we knocked out our 30 minute set and just killed it! We are super stoked to be out with these guys and have the chance to get our crowd to the next level.
Last night was Denver (soon to be my home city). Last night was unbelievable! We played at the Filmore Theater, the last time we played this place we had an incident we came to know as "The Denver Massacre", for those of you who know, you know what I'm talking about. for those of you who don't, don't worry we didn't murder anyone hahah.... ask me sometime in person and I'll clue you in. The show was solid last night. We played 40 minutes and played a new set list that D.J wrote. I must say D.J. really knows how to write a set! It was perfect! After the show we hung out with some friends from the area and had a good time. Bill, D.j., and I ended up at the Denver Diner for a late night snack before hitting the hotel, and then we crashed out. All in all the run so far has been fantastic! Thanks for reading and if you want to see more photos you can check out my gallery online. Click here or use the PW Tour link at the top of the page.
Cheers!
JIM
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Back In The Van!
Well here we are again, headed for California and then off on yet another run across the U.S. This tour is a bit more exciting for us than a normal tour cause we are headed out with PENNYWISE! We are super stoked to be able to hit the road with a band that we have looked up to since we were all just kids with skateboards and dream. While at home for the last 2 weeks i did purchase my self a new digital camera so i'll have plenty of great photos for everyone to see from this tour! I'll do my best to keep the blog updated on a daily basis so keep your eyes out for the new post!
CHEERS!
CHEERS!
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