Saturday, January 30, 2010

How it was and how it will be…

396 dennys, 30 ihops (no veggie burger), 200 village inns, 2000 convenience stores, 3 breakdowns, 2 fires, 2000 motel rooms, 100 hotel rooms…

500 floors with sleeping bags, 100 nights on the van floor (no more), 3 speeding tickets, 5 trailer tickets (I think jesse got them all), waaay too much money to oil companies, 5000 stickers in dressing rooms…

3000 free drink tickets, 10,000 bottles of water, 3 tom waits cd’s, 1 lionel richie cd and all four heads waking and bobbing gently in sync at 3am – “it’s easy like Sunday morning”…

750 late checkouts, 50,000 stolen apples from the front desk, 100 radio stations, 20 tv stations, 100,000 infomercials, 2000 earplugs (for JR and I) 2 earplugs (billy still wearing the same pair), 100 gyms, 10 farmer’s markets, 20 whole foods….

12 national parks, 15 scrapbooks, 50 disposable cameras, 200,000 phone calls, 1000 postcards, 35 bottles of makers mark (most from steve Jordan)…

300 free breakfasts and free papers, 300 sets of guitar strings, 3 vans, 2 trailers, 5 flashlights, one banjo and corbett’s temporary teeth, one map, 2 garmins, 2 iphones, west wing seasons 1-7….

2 tornados, 65 thunderstorms (all in OKC when we play), 2 roadfires, 1 ufo (well billy believes all that stuff…), 1 haunted room in flagstaff, AZ (they drained the videocam battery!!), a dozen drunk club owners, and last but not least- the greatest friends on the road any band could have.

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