- Are you unable to sleep in your own bed tonight?
- Is the van breaking down?
- Has anyone in your touring party stopped for a half hour and just stared at the drink refrigerator at a truck stop?
If you answered 'yes' to any of those questions, it's a good chance you're on tour.
Arriving at the show in Boston, there was a show just letting out from the secondary room at the venue. It was preventing us from parking the van, so we idled at the corner of the block and waited for them to disperse...and then hilarity ensued.
We noticed that 90% of the people standing outside didn't look over the age of 16, and the majority of the 'fans' fawning over band dudes loading vans were little scenester girls. One pair of girls went so much as to walk across the street to ask their mom if they could stay a little while longer to hangout with the bands. She apparently obliged, because they came back over looking excited.
The great moment, however, was when one of the bands announced they would perform an impromptu acoustic show at their van. So, next thing we knew, 3 skinny-jeaned, quaffed hair, prepubescents were strumming a guitar, and singing in bad three-part harmonies at their van, while now surrounded by scantily dressed, toothpick sized scenester girls.
Once they had finally packed up and moved on, we could finally park and get some food. The place is called the 'Middle East' and had some pretty awesome looking food. Armine had a veggie burger, Dave and Matt got regular burgers, and I got the chicken shawarma. Before this moment, I didn't exactly know what shawarma was (after hearing it in the avengers movie). Now I know, and it is delicious.
We have a long drive to Syracuse tonight. We're playing at a music store that is owned by the brothers from the band Engineer.
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