On the Road 1: Tucson

Packed up the kids (not literal) in the new benzo and headed down to Tucson today for a show with LMFAO and Shwayze. Things were heated from the jump when we were all arguing in the parking lot, Carnegie yelling he was too sick to come and me telling him he has no option then everyone was taking prescription Ibuprofin and it worked out fine. Checked in at the venue in the afternoon then ate at The Grill, which is always amazing. The food is bomb (I cleaned my plate, a rarity recently) and the whole staff is hipsters with strange attitudes and mismatched tattoos and I think I’m in love with the place. Their menu is like breakfast, premium pastas and gourmet sandwiches, which is a pretty strange combination.

The Grill is also the location of the inspiration for Carnegies Land Lord tattoo (across his knuckles) from a sticker in the bathroom, about as random as it gets. We did a quick sound check at the Rialto after eating, and I convinced the light woman to do the alien space ship thing from the lights during camera. The show itself went well, about 800 kids including screaming girls who had seen us previous and we’re amazing in their ludicrous cheering every time we did anything of note. Chilly tossed out Bobby Fresh gear, and we changed the show five minutes before (we have to stop doing that) and did a bunch of wrong versions but it worked out fine.

It has been determined our fanbase is girls 12-18 (one girl was shaking so bad to talk to me she could barely buy a cd) and that being sober is definetly a good thing (or else people stop asking how old people are), and Chilly is useful to have around and LMFAO are fucking awesome in concert and Shwayze suck and we need merch.

LMFAO have it pretty platinum, they have perhaps the baddest girl I’ve ever seen as their dancer, and a posse of their homies just jumping around on stage with bottles of grey goose, and everyone has matching shirts and coordinated dance moves and their beats are amazing. Their new song was wack, but god their live show is good. Shwayze have no business still being in the music industry, their cd was a guilty pleasure for me but their show is like watching paint dry especially after LMFAO.

We drove back because we were sober and I rather drive four hours than six to Havasu and I’m so happy I have a car that functions for road trips now… Day one on the road, and no drinking/drugs/sex/fights/randomness yet, thank god. Tomorrow we go on to Party Mecca.

Since we don’t get paid until nighttime or maybe Sunday for Thursday’s show, we went from plan A (pick up cases of liquor from nightclubs) to plan B: Sell our clothes at Buffalo Exchange and pick up cases of liquor in plastic bottles (Canadian Club?). Jesus.

Our back up plan in case Asher Roth cancels the show (which is the rumour) is to do “I Love College” ourselves as the headliners, fuck it. God that song is going to go over well… Like this:

I Love College! AYYY
I Love Drinking! AYYY
I Love Women! AYYY
I Love College! AYYY

That’s the best second half of a chorus ever for this kind of show… Asher Roth has officially made the best Spring Break song ever, beating out Doo Doo Brown, Baby Got Back and other classics…

We’re at the Hilton downgrade (Hamilton Inn?) not the LB Resort now, which is a good thing because the posse can live off the Continental Breakfast the whole weekend, and I won’t have a 1200 hold on my credit cards…


Shady camera phone picture of the crowd.