Sunday was the day of the first show.
We'd stayed the night in Joliet, but ended up having to head into
Chicago to find Junior a new fedora, and some costume stuff for Kim.
We got really lucky and found this
awesome hat shop that carried a
ton of different hats, and they were cheaper than what Junior
usually pays. Mike even ended up going back and getting a hat. It
was also just down the road from an AWESOME costume shop.
Fantasy Costume has just about everything. There's full costumes,
accessories, costumes for rent, wigs, make-up, props, etc etc etc.
They even carry foam display heads, which I had been looking into
getting, but Kim said she had 3 and I could have/borrow one :) Kim
used her birthday money from fans to get a bunch of stuff for tour.
We bought so much stuff the girl gave us a discount, and even gave us
free hats with their logo on it. There were 5 of us but only 4 hats
left, so she let Paulo have the kitty ears he was going to buy for
his daughter for free as his “hat.” You can order online and
they ship anywhere, so you should definitely check them out!
After our shopping trip we needed to
get to the venue for the first show. It was at MoJo's in Joliet
where they played with Otep on the last tour. It was a really good
crowd for a Sunday night. They played an unreleased song, as well as
UFO which I've never seen live before. We also had 13
VIPS!!!!! Many of them were repeat VIPs, and many we'll be seeing
at other shows. Allie who followed us around for 6 shows last tour
was back, as well as her better half, Jaye this time :) We had the
regular VIP party at Denny's because there were so many, but after we
had a flan after party in the parking lot. We were seriously there
for at least another hour hanging out in the parking lot. VIP
Mike was teaching roadie Mike some juggling tricks. We decided that
there should be a super hero that shoots flan from his wrist like
Spiderman shoots web, except he'd hold his had like an “f” in
sign language. We ran around the parking lot “flanning” each
other like that. I think a few people have video, and there's even
video of people taking the video. You'll have to check the One-Eyed
Doll facebook page to see if anyone posts them. It was a super fun
night despite going to bed exhausted at 4am.
We stayed at our hotel room again that
night since the drive to St. Joseph, MI wasn't that far. On the
way, we stopped at the coffee shop and Italian/Greek restaurant/store
in Merrillville, IN that we went to 3 times last tour. It was as delicious
as we remembered :) We were hoping to stop again on our way to St.
Louis, but it was a little bit out of the way, and we were running
behind, as usual :(
Second show was even better than the
first! Even though One-Eyed Doll had never played in St. Joseph
before, I think over half the crowd was OED fans!!! Mardie from last tour (as well as my second show ever years ago),
was there, as well as 4 of our VIPs from the night
before. This show they played Recipe 4 success and PAO!, both of
which I'd never seen live before, as well as UFO again. It's fun
being on a different style tour because I get to see different songs
and different interaction with the crowd. During one song Kim even
gave a shout out to Allie and Jaye! :D We only had the 5 VIPs that
night, Brad from the night before and last tour didn't make it :( so
we just rode around in the van and listened to a few unreleased
songs. It was a good time, as we got back to our hotel room early
since we had a long drive the next day. The hotel was actually
booked for us by the venue! This never happened last tour and I
didn't realize it was a thing! The Super 8 was pretty nice too!
Thanks
Czars in St. Joseph! Before we settled in for
the night we drove around for a bit looking for a little something to
eat, when we passed a Meijer. For those of you not from the area,
it's like a Wal-Mart but awesomer. I've said/thought so many times
since moving to CA that I miss Meijer. They're 24 hours, carry just
about everything, you can run there in the middle of the night to
pick something up, I know exactly what section to find most things
in, it's fairly cheap, and they're everywhere. There's no place open
late in my city and no place that carries everything. Plus, I can
never seem to find what I want half the time and go to 3 different
stores trying to find it. But anyway... we stopped into Meijer, got
a variety of food and a few things we needed before heading to our
nice hotel room to get a few hours of sleep before our drive.
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All the fans there to see One-Eyed Doll |
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Grainy because I was so far away :( |
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The awesome rainbow alarm clock at our hotel |
Funny side story from the show that
night, and yet another reason I'm glad I'm not addicted to my phone.
Mike was texting on his phone and accidentally went into the women's
restroom because he wasn't paying attention :P
Gaahh been working too much and not paying attention... I missed the tour. Sigh..
ReplyDeleteGlad somebodys documenting it for us play by play!!!
Cool.