Stevenson's 2001 US
Tour Diary (page 2)
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FRI
9/7: ATLANTA GA - Dye Slaughter House
OK, get lost for a sec, but find the house and the Fleshies!
(first of ten gigs with them) Whoo Hoo! Great to see them.
The show is a house party and it's a fucking blast! Afterwards
me, and an equally drunk Jon Fleshie get into a car in search
of swimming pools. The girl driving hands us a box of fireworks.
(Bad move!) The first one, we get out the window. The second
one goes off in the car, burning the shit out of Jon's hand
and my leg. Excruciating pain follows. The pool we find
at some very large house offers some solace, but we are
soon kicked out. We find another pool and lukewarm hot tub
nearby. |
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Hopeless,
Atlanta GA
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SAT
9/8: CHATTANUGA TN- Jacob's Ladder
Still hot and humid was fuck. The bar we play at has Nintendo
Punch Out! A good sign! + free PBR for the bands. Show is
running late, so us and the Fleshies (and locals Cocaine
Sunsplash) do short but awesome sets. The kids go off! Later
we go back to party with everyone at the "green house".
After some freestyling with some kids from the Florida crew,
everything gets blurry. Next morning, we make a brief stop
at food not bombs and its off to Knoxville. (Oh, I break
200,000 on the Ms Pac Man at the nearby pool hall!) |
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Hopeless
Helps the Fleshies out, Chattanooga TN
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SUN
9/9: KNOXVILLE TN - The Pilot Lite
Roll into town early and are lucky to catch Regina coming
out of the venue. She invites us back to her pad and we
kick it after getting some grub from the market (including
pre-packages deli fried chicken). Cocaine Sunsplash and
a bunch of kids from Chattanooga make the journey. Another
fun show, and its back to the highly competitive Regina's
for dominos and dice. |
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Matt
Fleshie and Regina Slap Some Bones in Knoxville TN
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MON
9/10: ASHEVILLE NC - Van Gogh's Ear
I am very pleased with my complimentary turkey on a bagel
sandwich from the venue. Regina comes up for the show and
we play several death matches of pool. Another fun show
and crowd. The NEED are here for some reason. They give
us props! Afterwards, we go to some crazy backwoods locale.
Amazingly I meet a girl who has not only read Cohen's Beautiful
Losers, but also thinks its brilliant. Later we all
try to sleep on the floor after being informed that North
Carolina is home to 2/3 of the world's spiders. We wake
with some interesting bites. |
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Stevenson
Sells Merch in Asheville, NC
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TUE
9/11: RICHMOND VA - Plan 9 Records & Chopstix
OK, this woman at the gas station is on crack, 'cause she
claims that planes just crashed into the world trade center
and the pentagon! We turn on the radio and sure enough its
fucking true, some totally fucking jumanji shit has gone
down. We pull into town and the record store we were to
play at decides to close early and cancel the show. We get
some grub and see the planes flying into the trade center
for the first time. Later we kick it at Andy's from PCP
Roadblock and see the footage about a thousand times. Then
its off to Chopstix, a Vietnamese restaurant, to play. The
dude from the venue is a real prick and charges us for the
use of the barely working PA. None the less, another fun
show. Fleshies rocked, and PCP Roadblock were nuts. Total
chaos! Bottles, chairs, glass table tops being thrown.
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WED
9/12: NEWARK, DE -- East End Café
Delaware is a strange place. Lots of clean cut athletic
college girls milling about. Free food at the venue. I
get the filet mignon and Caesar salad. Small crowd, fun
sets. Shane the bartender kicks down free Newcastle all
night. After the bar closes we hang out and down several
more pitchers of Newcastle. The club has this serious
Jumanji version of Ms Pac Man, where all the mazes have
these impossible jagged layouts and the fruit floats through
walls. Jason beats me, but when there's $5 on the line,
he cracks under the pressure and I reign victorious! ***
We crash at Shane and Marta's and the next day, Fleshies
eat something called scrapple. Limbs, wisely, abstain.
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THUR
9/13: PHILADELPHIA, PA -- FUN-RAMA
Listen to another Willie Richardson tape on the way into
town. Good bit about a seeing-eye monkey. Strangely, when
we get to Philly, someone asks us if we have a monkey in
the van. Play a small basement show. Fun nonetheless. Afterwards
Klosoff and I venture into this 90210 hell bar to retrieve
some 6 packs. Later we stay with John the promoter and his
roommates. Some Philly blunts are passed about. The next
day we have a pleasant stroll around Philly, which is pretty
nice. Lots of bricks, trees. We go to the Philly museum,
where Rocky ran up the stairs. There is a memorial service
going on, so we feel it would be inappropriate to do the
Rocky thing. Later, no show in site, so we decide to head
up into the madness in NYC and at least see our homies there.
(We get on the New Jersey Turnpike and may of the lines
in that one Jon Spencer song suddenly make sense.) |
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Off Nachos! Newark, DE
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Stevenson
Tackles the Jumanji Ms Pac Man
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***Jason
would like it pointed out that I only beat him by 1000 points.
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