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Published: December 1st 2006
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Valerie
playing and singing 11/27/2006 12:47 AM
The Sanctuary in San Antonio, Texas is the shittiest place I have ever played!!!!!!!!
Just got done playing San Antonio and I don’t think I have it in me to put it all down here. Surely it would take longer than the batteries on the laptop would last. First of all when it comes to the travel blog being about tour. I try to keep names and places out of it because this is about travel foremost. However, tonight’s show nearly didn’t happen. I’m sitting at the merch booth while Attrition is on stage and the sound in here absolutely, positively sucks! It might be easier to make a list…
1. We were here at 6pm as per contract. Staff showed up at 7:45pm.
2. The sound guy (2 hours late) bitched because we were getting set up, all the while bragging how after a girl slapped him on a previous night, he kicked her in the stomach.
3. The bathrooms of the club had no lights(though you could find your way there by the cockroaches crawling under the door to eat the urine that was all over the floor from the night before)
4. 2/3
Gino
playing guitar of the speakers were removed from the stage because they were blown and the system had no subwoofers at all. The remaining 2 speakers (2 2-15”s with one horn a piece) sounded as though they were being run through an electric pencil sharpener. Apparently Skid Row played there the night before screwed everything up.
5. The contract stated that there would be 4 bands on. They pulled 3 punk bands and a guy with an acoustic guitar from another venue and tried to have us all play in the remaining time (4 hours because of the staff being late)
6. The contract states “1 vegan, 1 vegetarian and 3 regular meals would be provided” we got 3 pepperoni pizzas.
7. They didn’t want to provide us with any beer and yelled at Martin for having a beer from the bus in the club before the doors were open.
8. The owner of the club walked up behind us as we were waiting to get the sound check for nearly an hour, and told us to quit standing around and get the fuck on stage and do our sound check (never introducing himself) We explained what I’ve written previously and he
Rudy
Performing for the crew said he would pay us to fuck off.
9. We debated either kicking the owner’s fat ass around or leaving without playing
Okay I’m done. There is no way I convey how the evening passed. Looking at this list
I honestly could go on forever about how bad this place is and how much of a douche bag the owner is but I’m trying to save the anger for when he tells us that he isn’t going to pay us, as I’m sure he will. I’ve decided that overall Texas is not that bad but if I never returned I would be okay with it. The best parts thus far are the people we met at the club in Dallas and the city of Austin seems pretty cool albeit geared toward college drunkenness.
So far this tour has been really fun aside from idiots that I vent about in my blog. We have two days off coming up before we hit Arizona and with that…my laptops batteries are telling me they are nearly dead……….
11/27/2006 12:17 PM
Well…we actually got paid without hassle from anyone. We were all so happy to get out of there. Brian was
the crew
less Brian, Edward, and I exhausted and fell asleep in the bus during Attritions set. We packed up and followed Geno back to his place and parked the bus behind the building. I think we all stood around and talked until 4am. I stepped outside for a minute and saw a little lizard hanging on the wall outside the back door.
This morning I searched in vain for my toiletries bag in the bus. Every time I set something down it’s gone 10 seconds later. We are so cramped with bags that everybody just keeps moving them around until you can’t find anything. Brian is again online looking for a company that has the bags he needs to build the fuel intake filter. I’m hoping we are going to get some coffee soon.
11/27/2006 8:24 PM
So we did eventually find coffee at a taco/doughnut place. We were looking for breakfast tacos but left too late as they closed half the restaurant at 3:00. We grabbed a couple of coffees and a few doughnuts and looked for another place. The one we found had no vegan food for Martin however, so we opted for a Chinese restaurant. On the ceiling of the
Laurie
retrieving merch from the cargo bay place they had an American flag and a Texas flag in neon measuring about 8 feet across.
After brunch we started out for a military surplus store. I bought a black vest with numerous pockets that will work well for traveling and a set of really cool goggles. When we returned Martin and I walked down the street to where we saw a bunch of air plants on the ground. We gathered up a few and sat in the living room while Bizarre Musik Machine played their set for us. They were supposed to play last evening but got cut as a result of the sound check debacle. I really enjoyed them. Right now Valerie is making homemade tortillas for tacos as we hit the road for Arizona.
The search for needed bus parts here in San Antonio was a bust, but Brian did find a place in El Paso that has what he needs so we try to make it there by 4 or 5pm tomorrow.
As far as blogging, internet connections are far in between. When I do find one the signal is, more often than not, to weak to use for long.
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Some of Valerie's art work in Nashville, the morning after our first show, was Laurie’s birthday. On that morning she was brushing her teeth outside as we readied to leave. She dropped her toothbrush in the dirt next to the bus so Brian stuck it in a hole above the hood of the bus. I assume it was for a mirror or antennae at one time. Anyway, the toothbrush rode there through Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Okalahoma, and through three shows in Texas before it finally disappeared. There was no grieving or mourning period. We all knew that the toothbrush was now laying along side a Texas hiway and wouldn’t be seen again. The tour must go on without the little white brush delicately etched in gold with the name of Laurie’s dentist.
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There is a reason texas was almost its own country....