Did I mention when we received our gold plaques there was one engraved to
"The new guitar player" and in parenthesis it said "even though you haven't
done much yet". I thought that was pretty amusing. So our work was done and
it was time to go home. Jack Black the comedian/musician/actor (known for his
group "Tenacious D") was on our flight home and being a fan and all I
decided not to be a big pu*sy this time and talk to a celeb. He was really
cool and said..."hey aren't you the guys I saw in my hotel lobby
yesterday flashing hundreds of your own fans" and proudly I said yes.
We were home again for what seemed like two days...well it was two days, but
anyway we rehearsed the whole time with Dino and got ready to embark on
this here tour. Our first few shows were all outdoor fair type dates that
started in the small town of Clio, Michigan. It was a little nerve racking fo-
r us and Dino since it was our first show with him and all, but he's got big
vegetarian balls and went out there and rocked.
A really sweet fan who's an aspiring musician sent us the most amazing gifts.
They were personalized jackets that were hand painted and came in this
giant box. Thank you so much for those and all your sweet words. Nate wore
his on stage that night. Peoria, IL and Lansing, MI were both a lot of fun.
It was nice to go back to Cincinnati and play Bogarts as a headlining band.
Ireceived by far the weirdest fan gift that night. An aspiring porn author
wrote multiple dirty stories all starring me! The scarier thing was that
she was a really good writer, but I was how you say a little taken back.
Well, we finally made it to Cleveland the next day! After what, like two or
three cancellations? Thanks guys for not hating us and still showing up and
giving us support! I almost died on stage from how frikkin' hot it was that
night. My pants were literally sliding off me. That was by far the hottest show
I've ever played. Our bus's generator broke that night and we had to drive all
night in the complete darkness with no power whatsoever....no playstation! Oh
it was sad. It was on to another stop in Ohio at a little town called Bucyrus.
Now here's where things got interesting. A huge storm all the sudden broke
through right when we were pulling into town and a van smashed right into the
bus flinging all us skinny little bi*ches around like hockey pucks. Luckily
nobody was hurt too bad, but it reminded me of fall last year when our bus
driver drove into a tunnel that was too low at full speed sandwiching our bus
and causing a three car pileup. Ah, good times. All the locals started coming
out of their little stores surveying this very untypical scene in the middle of
their main intersection.
The weather died down and we headed into the fair. Right when we were entering
there was this huge hand drawn sign that said "Tonight THE CALLING from Los
Angeles!"and there was this horrible drawing of me with my shirt totally
unbuttoned exposing a really overgrown hairy chest! I was like what the hell?
They obviously aren't too familiar with me! Because of the rain there was
major mud like everywhere that day so we thought it was a good time to break
out our baseball bat and tennis balls to play. I got so insanely muddy and
after my first pitch Aaron hit the ball right at me by mistake and hit
the crap out of my arm throwing me to the ground...that ended that.
Later that night the guys got racing pig hats and wore them on stage.
Billy had to sacrifice not wearing his hunting hat he hadn't taken off since
he bought it a week before at a truck stop.
I took off to Milwaukee, Wisconsin next with a crashed up, no power bus,
and a big muddy bruised arm, but in good spirits. Almost a year ago now,
which is amazing to think how time has flown by, we started our first big
tour in Milwaukee with LifeHouse and Michelle Branch on September 10th.
All my memories of the tragedies of the 11th took place right there in
Milwaukee during the 4 days we were stuck in the hotel, so it felt strange
going back to play The Rave. But now we could go there in a much better
light and we played one of the best shows we've ever done. A really really
great crowd took us over that night and will be locked in my memory forever.
Some of our most dedicated group of fans that have been to so many shows gave
me this HUGE banner that has little signed notes and messages all over it from
fans across the US...F*cking awesome gift! Thank you guys!
Yesterday's outdoor show takes the melting cake for the hottest experience of
my life, way hotter than Cleveland...110 degrees to be precise. It was even too
hot to wear a jacket, duh. The show was with LifeHouse of all bands which was
strange knowing Sean was there, but all was good and we watched each other's
shows from the side of the stage. I swear I thought I was going to drop dead
30 minutes into our set because of the stupid heat. At the last second of our
closing song I literally dropped my mic, ran like hell back to our
air conditioned bus while ripping my clothes off, pored water over my head,
quickly punched in the code to our bus which is: ....I'm not giving you the
combo! What do you think I'm nuts? O.K. O.K. I am, but no way! Anywho, I
threw the door open and seriously fell to my hot sticky death on the still
muddy tour bus floor. I laid there for an hour or two or three and well, here
we are. So now your all up to date. This tour has been a blast so far and I'm
excited to keep it going.
We've got our third video shoot coming up for the next single which is going to
be "Could it be Any Harder", so you'll hopefully start hearing it on the radio
next month. I'm really excited about that! Well, I hope we win an award at the
Teen Choice Awards...you guys did a great job voting no matter what happens so
I owe you all big time. If you see Dino at a show, give him a hamburger. Until
next time!
Love, Peace, and signatures no matter how f*cking tired I am,
Alex Bandinski
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