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Science Faction (2006)
10 days of madness promoting our latest release in the NW and California. Partially documented by Damon Ristau.
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TOUR IS....
So, in the style of those cute seventies cartoons with the naked
eight-year-olds telling you what "Love is...", we bring you,
Volumen-1's "Tour is..."
1) Tour is, trying to enjoy piping hot herbal "throat coat" tea with a
hall's lozenge resting on your thoroughly burned tongue. All of
this to remedy your aching throat and Kathleen Turner "man voice".
2) Jockeying for the best seat in the ambulance, without having to ride
shotgun or drive. Or, rather, jockeying to avoid the "death
seat". NOTE: The "death seat" is the one seat in the ambulance
where the seat belt constantly retracts, slow crushing your bowels into
your backbone.
3) Sleep deprived fits of hysterical laughing prompted by an event that you can't recall 3 minutes later.
4) Trying to find the least disease ridden toilet in the nation's gas stations.
5) Waiting... waiting... waiting... to play.
6) Making conversation with the dozen or so strangers that you were
just introduced to without using their full names, which you forgot
before they finished telling them to you. (Not on purpose, mind
you, but I can barely remember my Mom's birthday and I've had 32 years
of practice).
7) Listening to an Ipod pumped through two tiny speakers by a 4 AA
battery powered amp. The end result being that you can almost
just make out what song is being played over the roar of wind and
shouted conversation in the ambulance.
8) The roller coaster ride of scratch tickets and (more importantly)
the parlaying of said scratch ticket winnings into more scratch tickets
(or, more often) nothing.
9) Talking about the excitement of your next meal with a the first
mouthful of the meal you just finished talking about just passing your
teeth. NOTE: We can't freakin' quit talking about food.
10) The search for the nation's best novelty food items. On this
current tour, that list is topped by Spokane's "Spudnut". In past
tours it included such things as ham and corn pizza (in Lithuania),
Reindeer sausage in Finland and Pannacoeks <sp> in Canada.
11) Waiting to hear what "Baby Otter" (Volumen^2, or Bryan) is going to say next.
12) Desperatly fighting off sleep at 4am (with giggled conversation and
acoustic guitar), all the while bitching about how early we have to get
up and drive the next day.
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