Tour Day 2 Recap: Rhino's (Bloomington, IN) 2/26/2011

 
It's day three and we are riding in the van right now on the way to Nashville. The Garmin is taking us on a VERY scenic route. We haven’t seen a human being in 1.5 hours. Lots of dogs and cows and a sign for a place called Cox's Smokes. Not sure who owns these animals or awesomely named smoke shops…but they're here and they are pretty fun to look at.

Last night in Bloomington at Rhino’s was the balls, the kind you hope you’ll never forget. I got hit with my first pair of panties on stage and they smelled like sweet promise that brought tears to my eyes. THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR BLOOMINGTON "VERONA FREDS" who came to see us, especially to those of you who came out two nights in a row!

We played with an awesome band called Hard Candy Hearts. Their sound reminded me of getting hit by an old rusty locomotive made of swampy rock and roll sunshine.

Originally we decided it would be a good idea to take it easy and call it an early night since we had a place to crash…maybe some Parcheesi if we were feeling dangerous.

But even the best laid plans eventually go awry.

We have lots more pics and vids that I need to steal from other people's cameras/Facebook accounts... can't wait to see them...these really don't do justice the happenings of the night.

Thank you Jeania, Wendy and Heather for putting us up and feeding us!

Tonight we’ll be at The Basement in Nashville. This is actually my first time in Nashville, so I’m especially pumped to be here tonight. My phone is semi-working now (apparently at Sprint they can give you a new phone but not a new battery to go with it?)…so there is a chance there could be pics posted on the fly….otherwise you’ll just have to wait until tomorrow.

Nacho Dip Mouth Orgasm in Bloomington

So I realized something this weekend.  Verona Red played it's first house party in a number of years... and I'm starting to think we should just do full on house party tours from this point forward.

• Reason number 1. the nacho dip we ate at Wendy's birthday party, I don't know what it was but it was cheesy/spicy and better than any nacho dip we've ever gotten at a venue or anywhere for that matter.  It was the dip to end all dips, if there were a dip Olympics they could probably just cancel them.
• Reason number 2. the breakfast we ate the next morning after Wendy's party, again never happens at venues.
• Reason number 3. Education. I learned the actual definition of the word savory...realized I've misused it for years, can't remember the last time I learned anything of value at a bar.
• Reason number 4. all the great people we met at Wendy's party, OK well we meet cool people at venues too but this still needs to be taken into consideration.
• Reason number 5 crowd participation, I would have never had the chance to hear someone in the crowd come up and sing a song about their favorite kind of sexy panties had this show been in a traditional setting.

So maybe its presumptuous to assume all house parties would have these things..I imagine others may fall short and an entire tour of house parties could be a let down...but it might be worth looking into.

Here's some pics

Playing

Dancing

Posing upside down

Eating the shit out of some amazing nacho dip

Listening to the greatest American rock and roll song ever penned on the topic of sexy panties

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WENDY!

 

Big thanks to Wendy, Clint, Kris, and Marissa!