ok, Friday morning, north of Seattle on our way to Vancouver, cold and wet, sweeet, later
and now I'm back in the real world doing eight to fiver with the rest of the stiffs
, it was awesome awesome awesome as usual, both the trip and the shows, when crossing Canadian borde never say that you have 2 engineers and a chemist in the car or they take you to the side for further questioning, that's all I have to say about that, while in Vancouver
got a chance to meet T and her cool hubby, it's been a pleasure, we shall see again, first trip to Vancouver which although wet and cold looked to be like an awesome city, more euro than american style where you can actually see people walking the sidewalks, not to mention the beatiful surroundings, the venue in Vancouver could have been better but I'll take the 1200 that showed up with space to spare than 700 something in Seattle with no room to breath, the crowed in Vancouver seemed to be very aggressing, lots of assholes pushing through without saying fuckin' excuse me, my bro saw a dude with a pencil and paper in his hand headbanging and writing the songs in between, funny stuff from a dedicated guy, the sound system was very weak and you had to be in a good spot to trully get the full enjoyment of the live performance, the set list was the same as in other cities with cool presentation of Golden Disc or something rather for DVD sales of WoN in Canada, the awards were handed to AA guys between the songs by local vikings courtesy of T, very cool I thought, I got really good buzz going from all the banging and yet without drinking, getting back to States at 7:00am to avoid lines of canadians going down south was a lot smoother, this time the 3 in the car were a teaching assistant and a manufacturing plat employees, while in Seattle did some more touristy things such as the Space Needle where we almost got blown off and my bro got nearly punched by a camera man for taking a picture, found a cool motel/hotel within walking distance of downtown and the venue, lucky for that as there is nowhere to park and getting back on foot at 3:00am was probably much safer for me and others, the venue in Seattle has a good feel to it with some history behind it although 700 peeps that showed up were few too many for that joint, can't complain as the drinks were on band and the house
, got hammered, good thing I did the old puke before you sleep trick as things would have been a lot worse next morning, Oli must have been suffering next day, Ted & JH took it easier, probably due to toll from last night, Fred was so beat/exhausted from beating the skins in 120F temperature that he must of gone resting as I don't remeber seeing/talking much, JS just said WTF you doing here, shook hands and went to sleep
, bro found once again something interesting at/after the show, a bullet, good thing the guyes played the wright songs, otherwise who knows, set list, same, again, once again, the place was so packed that you couldn't headbang, forget any kind of running like an idiot, ok, I think I'm confussing here myself with all this giberish with no commas or any kind of structure
anyway, the tour looks to be a great sucess and we shall see you again
Capilano Suspension bridge area, huge trees I like very much
Vancouver crew, before the show
Vancouver, drink break, which btw they didn't do in Seattle due to no drinking allowed anywhere but bar, orange juice did the trick though
award
damn tourists
