Blog: Love and Hate Tour 2008 #2

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The final 2008 Tour blog.. new pictures and a ton of video including "Freak" taken at the open jam featuring 934034 guests on stage.

(Underwhelmed at Allentown, WI)

August 14th, we played Illusions in Green Bay, WI. Cool little place and nice turn out
We played a few sets.. Including covers such as “Folsom Prison Blues” and “Rebel Yell”.

One of the cool things about being on tour is all of the different types of venues/clubs we get to play. The biggie came August 15th at the Allentown Fireman's Picnic.

(Video: "Freak: Chaos Edition")

Playing alongside Fahrenheit 420 and a huge crowd, this show was the highlight of the tour. In what has become a Wisconsin tradition...  Johnny hopped on stage for “Something in Myself” and Chris joined F420 on stage for “Violet”

(Video: "Soul Medley")

On August 22nd and the 23rd we headed to South Barrington, IL to play Penny Road Pub. Last tour Penny Road’s was one of the cooler venues we played at, so we were pretty excited to be heading out there. We had a really good turn out and saw some new and familiar faces... 

(Video: Folsom Prison Blues)

The final show of the tour was in Allentown, PA at Crocodile Rocks Cafe on August 30th.. It was pretty cool to play on the same stage that bands such as Lifehouse and The Audition played on only a few weeks prior. Great way to end the tour.

So another fun tour…. of course we have to thank the following people for their hospitality and craziness which contributed to making this tour a success:

John our personal sound guy, Scott and Family thanks for the cookout, Kent for letting us crash at his house, Kathy and friends for coming out to all the shows,  JD for making us raging alcoholics and Frizz for surprising the band by coming all the way out to WI and giving us yet another handful of stories to tell everyone.

(Last Tour Photo)

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You can check out the tour photos on flickr here

So until next tour….next year

-Chad

Blog: Love and Hate Tour 2008 #1

Heyloooo from the road,

So on Monday August 4th we left New York to visit Ben Schigel at Spider Studios in Ohio. We headed out there to remix a few songs .. One song already appears on the current EP .. the other two are set to debut on the full album later this year.

(Brett the Jet)

The tour officially started on Thursday, we had two shows in two different states so  that was an interesting experience. The first show was  in the afternoon at Northwestern University in Illinois and the second show was at Milcreek out in Wisconsin. Both shows went really well and we got a  big surprise from brooklyn’s Famous Frizz. He flew all the way out to Wisconsin to surprise the band.

(Mike, Paul and Chris)

Friday we played outdoors at Woods Stock III. The Woods is one of our favorite places to play and we got to play alongside some great bands, especially our good friends Fahrenheit 420.  We had a fun time hanging out with some familiar faces as well as meeting a bunch of new people.

(Paul and Chris)

Sunday we were back at The Woods but for a open jam.. This was pretty awesome because anyone and everyone could participate.  So throughout the show random people were on stage  and there were mash ups of all different members from bands on stage. Freak  and Angel featured everyone from Johnny, Nick and Chad of F420 … while Something in Myself featured Frizz.

(Chris and Mike)

This was one of the best nights so far and I have a ton of video that will be uploaded soon.

(Frizz at The Woods)

Monday night we got to check out the Packer game with JD at Lambeau Field.

(Band with JD at Lambeau Field)

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You can check out the tour photos on flickr here

Coming up on the schedule is Open Mic night at Doubles and then a show at Illusions on Thursday

-Chad

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