tour 6.04
Tuesday, October 29 1997 Moscow ID John’s Alley
Zeph - We got to the show and it was fucked. No PA, no nothing. The promoter just completely fucked us. We spent about ten minutes there and headed for Seattle.
Carol - the best thing about this one was just being in moscow, in Idaho. there actually was a building that resembled the kremlin. fascinating! i mean, this is idaho, USA. it just reminded me that this country was truly founded by immigrants. the show was a no go. no show. just as well. we drove to seattle and over to simon’s sister’s. she lives with charice, a girl matt used to work with at the co-op. then we drove around in crazy circles in the seattle night rain looking for Simon’s little brother’s apt.
Wednesday, October 30 1997 Seattle WA OK Hotel
Z - Our last show here had been a big disappointment so we were expecting what we got this time. We stayed at Simon’s younger brother’s apartment and aside from the show, had an ok time.
C - ok sucked! i never wanna come back to this place again. Chris the soundguy was playing booker t. and the mg’s and it cheered me up a little. Simon was there and his sister and Katherine were there. we went back to Simon’s brother’s.
Thursday, October 31 1997 Portland OR Halloween party
Z - The first day without Simon. We’d gotten very used him. We were all feeling beat down. The show was in the basement of a big old house and they had put a lot of time into decorating it. There were a couple other bands playing. Christopher set it up for us and he also gave me some mushrooms which I ate before we played. This kid was passing around his bottle of Knob Creek and by the time we started I was feeling ok and it all went very well. It was about as good a show as we had with this line-up.
C - said good-bye to Simon. i was depressed and i wasn’t in the holloween mood and i didn’t want to be at a holloween party where i didn’t know anybody and i didn’t want to play. but i guess i had an ok time, better than last night anyway. i met a girl who came dressed as peggy bundy. her real name was Debbie.
Friday, November 1 1997 San Francisco CA Chameleon
Z - This night was just so bleak. A horrible Stooges tribute band played an early show and then we played with these noise guys who were bad too. About 5 people there. Tom from Mens Club came down and we went to his place afterwards to smoke some weed before we left town.
C - i always get the jitters on the way to sf. when we are driving over the bridge it all comes back and i get fuckin’ sentimental about this place. but the show was really depressing. we were so hungry that the first thing we did as soon as we got out of the van was hitting the tacqueria on 18th and mission. we chowed down on the big fat burritos that were so good! i even found $5 in the bathroom. and i managed to hook up with Daniel and Yoriko. it was incredible to see them. they were the same and different since the last time i saw them. we hung out downstairs trying to get drunk on bad beer. the show sucked but Daniel said it was his favorite chevy heston show. but he’s only seen us maybe twice. we lost Daniel on our way to Tom from men’s club’s house. it was kinda weird hanging out there cuz we had to be quiet and stuff.