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Straight from his tour diary lol

tuesday march 2, 2004

The spring is coming and that means it is only a matter of time before truck-a-saurus is back in town and the smells of elephant ears and tahitian treat whip through the warm air. Speaking of smells it also mean that all of the rotten coffee stains in our practice space will be summons to life once again and fill our lungs with black mold. I guess I am going to pick up some Febreeze so it smells more like spring. I wonder why no one makes an air freshener that smells like fall? (actually i think they might make something like that cuz every old women has a can of it next to her toilet.)

We just got back from Boulder on Sunday after playing a show there on Saturday night. The show was fun and the crowd was excellent but it was kind of rough, for me anyways cuz we got a backline (i.e. rented equipment) since it is so expensive to fly amps and drums. Anyway the kit i got was a really nice, 50's gretch kit, and it completely fell apart on stage. I should have let the promoter know how strong I am. I once auditioned for Danzig and they turned me down cuz I out bench pressed every last one of those sacks of shit. I mean I am a beast. Strongman competions are for lazy fat asses. I mean who can't pull a train that is on wheels? When I do that kinda shit I snipe like three elephants with some real strong tranq' darts then tie them together with their tails and drag them up hill and stack'em up on top of each other. The best part is I am confident enough in my self that I don't let people videotape me doing it cuz I don't want those poser ass tough guys to feel bad about themselves.

i wish pat still blogged. seems bands will do anything to get noticed early on, and then they pull back as they get their breaks. fear of being "over exposed" or maybe just newly time poor

Thanks for that link, tspina4. I read Dan's tour diary over my morning coffee. He used "shizzle". Twice. Freaking adorable.

Mike Watt, legendary bass player for the Minutemen, still keeps a tour diary after all these years. As a matter of fact, he just posted his diaries from his recent time on the road with Iggy and the Stooges. But then, Watt has always been in a class by himself. Hell of a guy, still jamming econo.

archive.org then at the top is the "Wayback machine" , you can look at old websites on it. just type in theblackkeys.com and search around , im not sure which date i found the on.

apologies for the topic hijack.
just re-posted (see the blog side of the site) some of dan's old tour diaries cause it was painful trying to get archive.org to work consistently and read the posts in order.
those diaries are so awesome, and were previously public.
hopefully dan and pat don't mind them being re-posted. ahh well, we'll see