Tour Journal: Days 3 - 6

Synthesis Editorial Director Daniel Taylor is out on the road as part of the Tooth and Nail Acoustic Tour, and will be blogging about his travels

Though technically four human complete human days, days three through six of the tour all bled together to form one epic-ly hellish van ride, interrupted occasionally by a show or thrilling game of croquet. After a 30 hour nonstop drive from Salt Lake City, Utah to South Bend, Indiana we met up with with the lovely Emery lads and our new homies in Ruth for the first official night of the tour. As expected, Emery acoustic is one of the best things ever. They played a few cuts from their forthcoming record, as well as some of their classic jams. They also took Q and A from the audience, and answered the question “Will there be more screaming on the next record?” about 30 times (the answer was, “there’s about the same amount as the last record, if not more”).

After the show we reluctantly returned to the van for the nine-hour drive to lovely Nashville, TN where former Chico legend, now Nashville legend, Trevor Sellers offered us safe hardbor for the day. I had my first experience of likely many, many Waffle House experiences mere minutes after our arrival. For those not blessed with living in the South, Waffle House is a chain of diners offering criminally cheap, disgustingly greasy and amazingly delicious breakfasts. A chocolate chip waffle and a double order of covered, peppered, and sliced Hash Browns and I was good to go. Tonight we play at Rocketown which is where I’m currently penning this entry. Thank God(s) for the internet. I don’t know how people got through touring before it’s invention. Maybe they actually practiced their instruments, or maintained their equipment or even, GASP, wrote songs during the 23 hours a day not spent on stage. Nowadays we don’t have to worry with any of those trivial things. We can just chat on AIM and LOL at cats and get sweet comments from wifey on Myspace. Oh yeah and play croquet…and fuck with dogs.