Coz and Kevin Bacon

So I guess it’s my turn to blog so hold on to yo butts. Anyway, I’ve been sick the last few days so I decided ta take a shot and a half of the quill (Nyquil that is) and write a bunch of random thoughts that I can remember from the last couple of weeks so here it goes.
Robby touched on this in his last blog but I’m gonna elaborate about the Milligan college show. To start it off, the conditions for traveling were not too great considering that our oil refineries were getting pounded by hurricane ike so therefore everyone in America stocks up on gas making the gas prices raise to 5 dollars a gallon. Awesome right?!! Well, the show must go on so we head up to Elizabethton/Mayberry Tennessee to a little place called Milligan College. The campus was small and very clean and neat. Everything looked uniform as far as the landscaping and building décor goes which is usually how the vibe is on a small private campus. Anyway, we pull up to the building that we are performing in and find out that its about as big as a decent size living room and has couches set up everywhere. Uuuuhhh, this tells me they have never heard DWB considering our gear alone filled up half of the room. As I was meeting some of the folks there it gave me the vibe of the movie footloose starring Kevin Bacon. Do you remember that town that banned dancing? So I think you know where I’m goin with this ladies and gentlemen. This place was used to having one dude with an acoustic guitar and they’re about ta get there faces blown off. As it got closer to showtime I examine the room a little more. They pretty much make it a coffee house vibe. The tables were covered with sheets of brown construction paper and lit candles. Crayons were also given out so while people were chillin they could melt the crayons and draw on the table. I guess that’s pretty cool for a time killer. So now its time to go up so we get the not so big introduction followed by the softest golf claps ever heard. It’s getting better and better by the minute. I wish I had a camera for when we hit the first note. It was as if we were from another planet. Eyes got huge, people were whispering to each other, and there were confused looks on most their faces as if they weren’t allowed to like this kind of music. There were maybe 10 people that were diggin it off the get go though. Slowly but surely people are starting to loosen up and move a little except for these three people that sat at the very front and colored the whole time. I said it was good for a time killer, not to do while someone is 3 feet in front of you performing. They didn’t clap; they didn’t even look at us hardly. At first I thought they might have been def, but they were definitely talking to each other. Anyway, you all are lucky you left when you did cuz I wuz gonna call you up on stage so next time watch out. So back to the show, about 4 or 5 songs into it we finally got em as much as we were gonna get em. If anyone has seen dishwater you will notice that we really feed off the crowd so these signs of life were reviving for us. People are starting to get up and dance so now we’ve won them over. There were two girls that sat at the other front table that were into the show the whole time. One of the girls wuz in a wheel chair, but that didn’t stop her from dancing, noooooo. While she was really getting into it that made us get into it and Davis really got into it so he got into so much that he decided he was going to jump off the stage then up on top of a chair which was on a slick floor that caused the chair to slide out from under him and launch right into the girls lap. YEEESS!! Right when we are winning them over Davis decides it’s a good idea to launch a heavy metal chair at one of our biggest fans there, the girl in the wheelchair. Anyway, it turned out to be an awesome move she just ran with it like she was born to rock and we thank her for her cooperation. We tend to get outta hand sometimes. So you remember when I told you it was a “Footloose” situation, well it was. We were like Kevin Bacon saving the small town from being fonkless zombies, so thank you Kevin Bacon for inspiring us to dance.