San Francisco & the Record Shop

Our San Francisco show at Grant & Green will be one to remember for some time. We played our set and right before our buddies in Matt Masih & The Messengers were about to play something very, very strange happened. I started coughing. And there was a strange taste in my mouth/feeling in my lungs. I look up. And everyone around me is coughing. Most of the people rush outside of the venue. It turns out, thanks to the knowledge of my friend Glenn Miller, what we experienced in the place last Friday the 13th had been tear gas. Why someone choose to set off tear gas is completely beyond me but it sure makes for one hell of a story.

Before the show we spent some time poking around a record store that was around the corner from the venue. Viewing these record covers really reminded us how ridiculous some album covers can be. Here are a couple of our favorite covers:





next week we play in Santa Clara, San Luis Obispo and Sacramento. Here are some details:

Santa Clara University
9pm : at the Bronco : free

San Luis Obispo : 2 shows
UU Hour at Cal Poly : 11 am : Free
&
Farmer's Market : 6:30pm : Chorro St.

Sacramento at Marilyn's on K
9pm : +21 : $8
with Matt Masih and Still Time

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Thanks for your continued support!

-Andrew

Oregon & Washington Highlights

(look how much room there is in Brutus, though Jonathan and I missed Kellen and Jason on the Pacific Northwest leg)

- Thanks to my good friend Brian “Daz” Dezzani, we played at the University of Portland and met lots of cool kids. A couple of which were the founders of a t-shirt company called Norjack. They outfitted us with a whole bunch of T-Shirts that we proudly wear.

- Our second Portland show turned into a Sugarloaf reunion/dance party.

- We played a really cool venue in Seattle (technically it was in Ballard) called Egan’s Jam House. They usually do jazz shows there – but from time to time they do Singer/songwriters. It had a really cool intimate vibe.

- I believe in the barter system and I wish more people did. Who needs money when you can just exchange goods for services? In Silverdale, WA : I exchanged our new Paradise Sessions for a shirt of one of the gals in the audience. This shirt reads “I love Activities Committee.” If anyone would love to trade me anything for a Paradise Sessions, I am open to almost any suggestions.


- Whilst staying in Bremerton, WA with the Wallen’s. I got a chance to go kayaking out on the Puget Sound.

- Coming back thru Eugene, I took advantage of the Free Grand Slam Breakfast at Denny’s.

The touring is over for the time being and I have to thank all the people who have gone out of their way to make this last tour possible:

Rob Bean, Brian Dezzani, Bill Scheuner, Jill & John Wallen, Alison “Mom” McFarlane, Jeff Wilson, The Garcia Family, The Papathakis Family, Brennan Maloney-Krips, Eric Frank, Robbie Arnett and all the gentlemen of Links, Dan Byers, Spencer Williams, Jakob Martin, Matt Masih, Helen Chance, Caitlin Fanning, Mari Venturino, Kyle Holmes, Marlana Sheetz, Megan Rabone…gosh I am sure I forgot someone. I can not thank all of you enough for helping out in all the ways you do.

Thank you to all the bookers who consistently give us rooms to house our music and fans. Lastly, Thank you to all the people who came out and supported our shows and said hi to us on the road.

I have realized how important community is as a human and how important it is to feel like you fit into a community. It has been a beautiful experience over the last couple of months to realize that my community spans from San Diego to Seattle.