tour 3.04
Matt - Not very good.
Carol - we drove to 4 different record stores. Matt & Zeph doing all the PR, mostly Zeph. they traded in our CD’s for other tapes or money, whatever we could get. i was on a mission to find smoothies. me & Roman went to a cappuccino place and they didn’t have any fuckin smoothies. they had really good teas. i wanted to steal mango Ceylon but i chickened out. me & Roman found an odd health food grocery store. there were lots of fat old women serving fancy food samples. i tried some cheese with mustard salmon, tamale, and portabello mushroom in teriyaki sauce. we got to El Paso around 8pm. what a shitty town! we are the only band playing tonight. earlier i woke up feeling still sick.
me & Matt got up around 8 or 9. found a breakfast place called Mrs. Hubbard’s or some name like that. i didn’t have much of an appetite and the place looked dirty. real shitty coffee, watered down oj, greasy hash brown, and half cooked eggs.there were few people at the attic, the few people in el Paso who had nothing better to do than come down to the attic on a Saturday night to hang out with some band from out of town.
there’s nothing to do in el Paso and it sucks being that band nobody knows from out of town playing alone at the attic in the middle of nowhere. anyway, we played fuckin great in that sorry ass place. we were awesome and we are never going back there again. we got paid $80 and got the hell away from el Paso headed for New Mexico. we got a room at motel 6. it really sucks when there’s nothing good on cable TV. me and Roman had to sneak in, because the room was for 2 people only. all the boys took showers for a change. I’m still feeling ill. fell asleep with the TV on. Zeph was working on the fall schedule avoiding the whole southwest altogether.
Sunday, May 26 1996 New Mexico
C - we checked out around noon. they forgot to give us our wake-up call. we are driving up north to Denver on route 25. this is a 12 hour drive. New Mexico is a strange desert state. we might see Sean in Denver. it looks like it’s gonna rain. quiet, boring day. people will live anywhere. it’s raining. that sucks. places like this are unique but they are really fuckin boring. I’m still feeling ill. the Chinese cold medicine i got in Tucson hasn’t been all that effective. shit, we got to Denver late at night. i think Roman was driving. i didn’t even leave the van all night. me & Matt slept in the van. still sick.