Coz's Tour Highlights

So we just finished a three day Columbia, Burlington, St. Louis run for Halloween that was one of the most refreshing mini tours we have done up to this point in our lives. We played with our friends from St. Louis called the Fundamental Elements who are way fonky as well really cool dudes. To kick off the trip i realize about 8 hrs up the road that I forgot my clothes so Russ, from the Fundamental Elements, was so kind as to give me his Ben Wallace startup kit to wear for the weekend as I did for two of the shows. I never imagined how comfortable it feels to dress like Ben Wallace. For those who haven’t seen an FE and DWB show we usually do a big collaboration where both bands get on stage and perform a couple of tunes. Before the show on Thursday night a couple of members from DWB as well as FE approach me to give me the good news that we were gonna work up a version of Ghost Busters for our Halloween show. Yes I just said that, Ghostbusters. So we get up Saturday and chill for a little bit at Luke and Mark’s (drummer and bass player from FE) parents where we spent the night. By the way I believe I should side track just to talk a little bit about how we almost died on the way from Columbia to Burlington. We decided it would be easier to drive three hours to Burlington after the Columbia show on Thursday so we could chill on Friday and work up the Ghostbusters theme song. As we are driving through the night we constantly keep seeing deer wondering around on the side of the interstate. I didn’t have a good feeling about that. Eventually we enter the last leg of the trip and you can imagine how exhausted we were. At this point Mark DeJaynes (Bass player for FE) has taken the last shift to drive and I’m in the copilot seat where I usually am. We were spacing out talking bout something that was probably mindless then all of a sudden a huge deer appears on the road in front of us and we were driving at a steady pace of 70 mph. I was like hear we go boys we re about to eat venison all weekend, but we missed that thing by an inch. Kudos on the trailer breaks Davis, which if he hadn’t decided to put them on the day before we left it would’ve been over for all of us. We continued our conversation about loose meat sandwiches with cheese whiz because we were too tired to wrap our minds around the fact that we almost ran over a massive gorilla deer. Yes it was part gorilla part deer and it was flipping us off as it was running across the interstate. Wait a minute, I think I just blacked out. Back to the blog. After we ate some breakfast we go check out the DeJaynes’ home studio which was off the chain. We set up and jammed for a little bit then we (DWB and FE) started to work up this Ghostbusters collaboration. IT WAS NAAAASTY!!!! After we got done with that we went inside to eat about 10 pounds of chili and head to the Halloween show. It went over so well that we decided to play it the next night in St. Louis which was also a great idea. People were freakin out cuz how many times have you seen a band that breaks out Ghostbusters. I had so much fun I wore my Halloween costume at that show as well. Or wait a minute, I think I wore my costume cuz that’s all I had to wear all weekend. Thanks for loaning me some clothes Russ. From now on we have made a pact to always do Ghostbusters every time we play together.