This is Matt Steinke...I not so secretly hate him...we met a million years ago when I was trying to date Tim from Sugarcult (not something I'm proud of ) I am however, proud to call him my tech friend...er, when he's on the good stuff!
We are reaching the end of our Social D tour...I'm sooooo fucking thankful to be where I'm at...I'm gunna be truthful and admit that I'm a little bit fried right now, ha ha...I mean, I've been out here for about a month and a half and I'm NOT tired, just so deep into tour I'm sure my "come down" is gunna be knarly....I am lucky that I get to do my tour detox in Texas...I'm gunna need a serious vacation to come down from my ultimate "rock" vacation!
I've got some awesome pics from our night out in Edmonton seeing Eagles of Death Metal...I'll be sure to post those in the next one! I got a little bored with the show by show format, so here's what you get, a motherfucking curve ball:
THE GOOD...THE BAD....THE UGLY!
The Good: Best shows had to be the headliner we did at the Distillery in Calgary after our social d show got last minute cancelled (this show was the STUFF OF LEGENDS) we actually got to the next show and people were TALKING about this one!/ The last 4 or 5 shows killed it....including Vermont/ Montreal/ Milwaukee etc....all the shows started getting sooooo good we just called it a "Turkey" er, or after 3 good shows in a row we just decided we won the game! There was a dance invented!
Good = Stalking Dahmer in hidden tunnels and sightings of children playing at the best show of the tour, The super haunted Eagles Ballroom in Milwaukee....it was good to come back, although we're convinced we took something away with us....
Nicknames! Liza Smash- the Guz- Suzi Showrecker- Titties Tytell...it just NEVER ended....the boss- wild turkey- etc...etc...."is there something going on here?"
The Bad: Me, chasing my homies in Final Summation out to their van begging to be taken back towards the West Coast with them while giving a big schpeal about why NOT to become a slave to the music industry...ha ha...ahhh! Sorry guys...it had been a LONG day and you are the only band from "back in the day" that NEVER got weird on us when we got successful...props for that! Love you!
Bad would also be my FIRST time at a strip club, in Canada, no doubt....a first with a first I guess...it was scary to say the least, they have different rules out there, like there is full nudity AND alcohol (scary canadian beaver!)....there were also a TON of people from the show there as well, so it was extra mortifying being rock-agnized that night....I was like "I swear this is my first time"...the response to that one was "sure...it's my first time too!" no one believed me and I was being mocked....ugh!
I think that seeing the River City Rebels in Vermont counts as bad, as in Bad ASS....ha ha...there's soooo much history there...Bopper (aka THE RIVER CITY REBELS) and I just had a really great time slagging all the dirty exes and talking about the good ol' days, like the VERY FIRST real tour we did with them and the DP Gunfight out to TX in 05
The Ugly:
Ugly was the casino show, so ugly that I unfairly yelled at my sisters bf DAVE (also in the opening band the Strangers) yelled at him to change her string on the gretsch....to which Craig (social d's tour manager) leaned over to him and said "you better get scared, that's gunna be your sister in law...ha ha" in his ridiculously thick accent.....great I'm the future nightmare sister in law... - the night was saved ONLY by my immense ROULETTE winnings as well as my SWEEP of the BLACK JACK table....
Also ugly was also our tech....getting caught with his hand in the cookie jar and trying to stir up the van by making people question their loyalty and friendships...you know how you stop that? you send that shit home, and that's just what I did...it was fun while it lasted, but not everyone can handle the van with us!
Oh you know what is really really ugly? All of the dumb motherfuckers the are on the civet "rejects" list....lets just say we had a really UGLY listening party and laughed heartily at your expense....Wait? Was this done on garageband?
I'm not gunna name names, but SOMEONE wears a leather jacket with NO SHIRT underneath and needs to be stopped...ha ha....he knows who he is....for shame!!
The ugly also involves Dave from the Strangers trying to fight our friend David from Simple Plan tonight in Montreal....gentlemen, there's plenty of civet to go around...let's not get all barbaric! It was good seeing David, cept he knows THE TRUTH...that Suzi was in the "Shut Up" video....sweet!
GOOD MOTHER FUCKIN' TIMES!!!!!
hey i youtubed that simple plan video to look for suzi didn't see her or was that a joke haha
ReplyDeleteLol...I have a feeling my band is in Civet's reject list..lol
ReplyDeleteOh haunted Eagles Ballroom. Fuckin love that place and sorry I couldn't make it up to the show, had an event of my own scheduled or I definitely would've.
ReplyDeleteYour Canadian strip club experience sounds scary and classic, haha. My first strip club was in new orleans and there were dudes too but it was awful, they were all junkies with no teeth. *shudders*
Damn you do look like the coolest mom ever in that pic, lol! Lucas is adorable!