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More tour quotes and drunken dialogue
Another person just e-mailed me that they love The Personals’ blog. That’s so awesome! Now I just feel bad for neglecting it over the course of my move to Chicago. It’s not like I’ve run out of tour stories. Not even close! Here are some more little ones …
WICHITA: I wrote this down in Adam’s spiral notebook and I just found it today.I can’t believe I almost forgot it!
“We have to keep in mind that GWAR played here.”
These words of faux-caution came out of Adam’s mouth as we were pulling up to Kirby’s Beer Store. I don’t think I need to say any more. (I wonder, though, if Kirstie Alley was there when they played.)
MADISON: This was the most intoxicated I got on the tour. After we arrived home in TX, The Personals received a lovely myspace message from a DJ who was there, saying all kinds of nice things about the show and meeting us, including the observation that “Erin was hugging everyone.” Hmmm, I thought. I don’t remember hugging everyone. Then I got my film back from one-hour photo. I wasn’t so much hugging everyone as I was forcing strangers to take photos with me, which I did myself by putting one arm around people, stretching my other arm out as far in front as it would go and clicking my disposable Kodak, sometimes getting everyone in the shot, sometimes not (there’s one that would have been a great pic of me and the bassist from Dixie Witch, except only half of me made it in the photo). If you want to see close-ups of me sticking my tongue out and looking all drunken-rocker, boy, do I have some to show ya. Poor Adam and Toby. I would hate to be my “handler.” But whatever. It was fun. And that’s what happens when there’s a rollerderby girl working the bar and all of her rollerderby friends bring the merch girl (me, of course) too much whiskey (and really, any whiskey is too much for me … I should just hand it over to Adam as soon as the person giving it walks away, which I actually did at the Chicago show, come to think of it … perhaps I got smarter as the tour went on). But I digress. I am just glad I didn’t forget this awesome exchange between me and Curt, the super nice bassist from Dixie Witch, after our set in Madison.
ME: Thanks so much for having us on your bill tonight!
CURT: You guys rocked.
ME: Thanks! (drunken blushing)
CURT: Where did you get that bass?
ME: Austin Vintage Guitars on South Lamar. Adam saw it and told me there was a bass there with my name on it. I totally love it!
CURT: I knew it! I was going to buy that bass! I had my eye on it for two weeks and was just about to go make them an offer but it was gone when I got there!
ME: Wow! (or something like that)
Pretty cool, huh? I’m really glad Adam found my bass when he did, because it is totally MY BASS. And I’m really glad I retained that small-world moment amidst all the whiskey-induced forgetting.
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