Friday, September 7, 2007

Detroit, Toronto, Niagra, NYC!!

Hey!

I have a ton o' pics on this one! First let's cover D-Town. We played St. Andrews Hall in the basement. This is known as the Shelter. One may see this venue in the movie 8 Mile with Eminem. It's where B Rabbit battles rap stylie.

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Here we were waiting outside as usual for a promoter to show his happy ass up!

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As we were setting up The Expendables and The Supervillains we're practicing a joint session together. The Expendables kill it with horns added.

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There was a cool Jazz fest goin' on, you can see the stage in the back of this pic...

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There were also some cool edifices in D-town too...

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From Detroit we headed into Toronto. There was some crazy stuff going on!! There was an air show and an Italian Feira! Good gawd what a day!

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After we got through the traffic... we waited for another promoter.

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We were waiting to get into The Mod Club...

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After that nonsense... I explored the Italian fest. The weird thing was, was that we were right smack dab in the middle of Little Portugal and Little Italy. I heard Portugues, Italiano, English, French... etc. It was really crazy.

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I found an awesome fresh fruit stand and ate a mango right on the street...

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DJ partook of the corn as well...

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After walking around for awhile Bry, Deege and I had to hit up the al aire libre. I had some doppios and they had some brews...

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I saw a mom, dad and baby an missed my little one a lot... :( It was nice to see so many families enjoying themselves. Here she is trying to walk...

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After our break, we walked some more...
These guys were playing guitar and lute. The traditional Italian movie made me think of a Coppola flick...

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This dude was taking a break too...

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We continued on to the end of the block where there was a Latvian House that caught my eye. It was definitely Freemason. Sure as shit...

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Notice the AL and AD calanders and the G.

After all the walking, we played. There were six people there... nice!!! We decided to switch it up. One song was played soley by Jason, Jim and Bry. I took this cool pic which looked liked the band Nirvana to me...

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After we played I strolled through the streets again. The fest went until the wee hours and they fired up the grill for lamb skewers...

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We finally head toward The US.


We decided to hit up one of my favorite sites, NIAGRA!! It's truely breath taking!

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Here's a pic right at the edge on the Canadian side...

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I even caught a rainbow as I looked to the US side. It must have been a good omen...

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Here's a view from the Canadian side looking toward the fall and city skyline...

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The Canadians actually harness some of the fall's power through hydro electric... crafty bastards! ;)

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Here I am in front of a Spaniard's poem describing the power of the fall and man's insignificance. I responded with a hammy flex!!! hehehe

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It must be my Irish-German roots... us Celts and Barnarian's know that the we and the fall are one in the same entity. hahaha!! MEN MEN MEN!! Tiocfaidh ar la!!


After my febile attempt at virility we proceeded to AMERICA!! Here we are travesing the Rainbow Bridge...

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We headed to hang out with Pete and Reggie on our day off in Rochester. We spent the day off of Lake Erie at Marge's. It used to be a speakeasy back in the day. They used to run the rum right over the massive lake from Canada...

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I drank a Redbull on the beach while the boys did their booze thing...

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I saw a boat out on the lake and immagined the rum runners of the 20's and 30's...

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The funny thing was, was that there was a sherriff in the cookie jar that lived on the same beach with his meager paycheck. Straight Capone stylie!! He lived over here, west of the venue...

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I broke away from the barflies and had to partake of the famous Rochester garbage plate!

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Damn that's good... Two Cheeseburger patties on mac salad and home fries and smothered in spicy meat sauce!

After I had my fill, I rounded up the troops and it was off to NYC baby!! When we arrived I had to get my Sopranos look goin'. Cigar and all hehehe

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I hooked up an interview at Sirius Radio with our buddy Shannon and invited our hommies in The Expendables to come help us to promote our tour! It was cool. Over in uptown Mathattan.

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After the show my buddy hank made it in from LAX. He took us to an invite only party. I guess the band is headed by one of New York's biggest socialites.

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It was nuts!!

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DJ didn't know what to make of it...

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hehehehe!!

After the after party it's the after the after party, party... We headed to an even more elite event. Adrian was there from Entourage. The guys being from AZ weren't used to The NYC booze codes... no beer o' clock!!

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HAHAHAHA!!

Needless to say, hell of a couple days!! AWESOME!!

Cheers!
Bill

P.S. I opted not to use spell checker, I'm sure there are some horendous spellings.

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