Day 5 Off

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Jul 042009
 

Woke up to see vast empty valleys and mountain ranges and guess that I was some where in Nevada or Arazona. Stoped by wall mart to pick up a fan and some gun muffs. Stepped off the bus (wich is kept at a perpetual 65deg) and got hit by 97 deg heat. Tommy the crew chief went grocery shopping and outfitted the bus with a major stash of food and snacks. I’m guessing that that will prove invaluable later on. And then we got to the hotel where everyone split up into their rooms. I took a nap then went to hang out by the pool. Taked some and found a great bbq going. Hung out some more then went to plan out with Kyle how we are going to set up our digital boards tommorow.

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Day 4 Ventura

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Jul 042009
 

Day two of having a stage overlooking the water. Going to definitely miss this later on. This day was windy and surprisingly cold. Ran into a bunch of old program board friends which was great. Got all my bands setteled and dialed in pretty quickly too, figures that its my last day mixing on a Midas Sienna. At the next show I’ll have a digital board and have to start all over again.

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Day 3 San Francisco

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Jul 042009
 

Back home!

Oh man, day 3 and I’m allready back.

Woke up to find the bus was parked out on a pier over the bay in the very familiar city of San Francisco. Also found the bus was parked next to catering, which was very nice. Grabbed some food and set off in search of my stage. I was a little worried about timing, since I had two days to get ready at Pomona, and this day I only had the morning. Worked out alright though, first band surprised me and started at 10:15. Had to finish mic’ing the drums as they were playing their first song. A new band was added called Shooter Jennings, giving me ten total.

Weather was perfect, warm, sunny, nice breeze, not like San Francisco at all. Had a view of the whole bay behind me. Lots of people came out to see the show and everyone seemed to have a good time. People didn’t even throw stuff. Met up with the parents afterward and grabed a beer and more food.

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Got back to the bus, handed out the food my mom brought from home and went to sleep rolling back south.

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Day 2 Pomona

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Jul 042009
 

After an interesting experience sleeping on a bus with 13 guys and one girl (yes there are only 12 beds, Taka and Neal got stuck sleeping in the lounges), I got up at the decent hour of 7am and walked over to catering. After standing in line for a bitI discovered that sound doesnt have the time for that sort of thing and we have to just cut to the front, grab some food and go. I got to my stage early and contuined labeling and organizing things. Bands showed up around 10 and the first one started at 11:15. The band line up went: Atack Atack, Ivy Leauge, The Aka’s, Brokenside, Therefore I Am, The Architects, Shad, TV / TV, and Interparty System. I’ll write more about them later. During one act a beer bottle thrown from the crowd hit the corner of my console and broken shards went flying past me.

For a console I’ve got a midas sienna. The doghouse was packed solid.

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Got back to the bus, showered, and went scrounging around for food. When I went to sleep we were rolling up North.

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Day 1 Pomona

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Jul 042009
 

Bummed a ride accross LA to pomona and got to the venue around noon. Found a whole fleet of busses parked and waiting and a little sign where the rat sound bus was supposed to be. Got settled, picked up some cool swag, then went out to the smartpunk stage, which was out with all the others in the middle of a horse racing track. I realized later that the trick each morning would be finding my stage. There are six stages total and a ton of vendor and band tents.

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Mostly things look like big empty fields we come in and build stuff.

Finshed setting up and came back to find our bus waiting for us.

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Day 0

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Jun 242009
 

36 hours till launch.
I’m not packed yet.
Working on getting google latitude to track me.

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