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So ya, I’ve really been slacking on the blog hahah! With the launch of the new Ransom shirt and all that has been put into getting Ransom’s site the way I want it I’ve really neglected my blog and I have to apologize for that. Authority Zero.com is also consuming my time. Trying to fix cross browser bugs is a real pain in my butt but hey that’s why I don’t do web design for a living! I find it much easier to beat on things and make noise! :)

So the Pennywise tour has been cruising along and we’ve had plenty of fun times and stories so far. Every day seems to have a new adventure in store for us!

OK lets see…. hold on while i check out some photos to refresh my memory……..
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Alright so we’ll go back to Texas. Somewhere between Houston and Austin Strung Outs van threw a rod. (engine blew up) We got the call right when we got to the venue in Austin so our merch guy Brian opted to drop the trailer and go get Strung Out and there gear and bring them back. So 4 hours later we are on stage trying to keep songs going because they are still not here and we need to fill in time. Finally we do our last song and about 5 minutes later they come running in with there guitar. Jumping up on stage to play all they can in about 30 minutes about 2 or 3 songs in a beer bottle flies up to the stage and hits Jake (guitar) in the face! Not only the face but right at his eye. He runs off stage holding his eye and they take him to the hospital. Luckily there was no severe damage, he was stitched with 3 or so stitches and sent on his was. The rest of the band had no idea what happened till they where done, so they finished there set and the show went off! I’m now trying to find Jake a pirate eye patch! If any of you out there are coming out to a show between now and the end of the tour please find me an eye patch with a skull and cross swords on it so we can dress Jake up in some proper ransom gear! ahahah!
To continue…. The show finishes up with Pw killing it as usual and we all get loaded up. Most of the band members end up in the back bar hanging out and talking about the day until bus call comes at 1. A few of Strung Out heads for the Pw bus and the others opt to ride with us for the next day. Although bus call for Pw was at 1 Randy and Jim from Pw came off the bus cause they we’re going to fly home the next day (day off). So now it’s Jason, Brian, Bryan, Jim, Randy and I all hanging out in the back bar getting hammered and at some point in time Jim bought us all Emo’s T-shirts (venue we played at). Now I’m not sure when compelled him to do this but hey I’m not going to complain cause they have rad shirts hahah! Finally Emo’s kicks us out at about 2:30 or so and we head down the street for some slices of pizza. Hanging out at the pizza shop an homeless dude comes up with a guitar and naturally we all start requesting songs. This guy is totally schooled on his punk rock. He started playing Black Flag, Bad Religion and the Descendants. At some point in time during all the song request our merch guy (wasted) says “do you know any Pennywise songs?”. The guy looks at us and says, “Pennywise is just a bunch of Black Flag rip offs!”. We are all amazed and laughing out asses off at this but the best part was that Jim turns, looks at us, and shrugs like “yea, pretty much”. I thought that was really cool. Those bands influenced Pennywise like Pennywise influenced us and its cool to see that he just agreed even though that’s not entirely true. I’m sure he was just agreeing kind of like paying respect to the bands that helped mold them, but thats just a guess from me.
So 3 slices of pizza and 10 punk rock songs later this night finally comes to a halt. We hailed a couple cabs to get us back to the hotel, I’m not sure but i think i passed out before my head hit the bed that night, lord knows i had plenty of help from the Whiskey.

The next day was a day off and we drove from Austin, TX to Albuquerque NM. Now the cool part is we have Bob and Chris from Strung Out with us so there is fresh faces and fresh stories to be shared along this loooong boring drive! Along this drive at some point in time we stopped to pee and Chris told Bob to climb on top of this water tower to pee, so he did. Next thing you know Chris come running out yelling “Bob you f!@#$# peed on me!” hhahaha I got some of this on video so you’ll be able to watch it soon. We kept going on our journey and low and behold we find CHUY’S! Now this isn’t the normal Chuy’s you find all over the nation this one is in the middle of no where off the highway and somehow we run into this place on accident. This was the 3rd time we’ve hit this place on our travels and we are stoked! What’s cool about this place is that its the home of the John Madden hall of fame! I guess the short story goes that he was on a drive looking for a place to watch the game and he ran into this place. He enjoyed it so much that he started mentioning it in magazines and interview so he really put them on the map, (we don’t own that map hahah). I have to say this place is kick ass! The food is great the people are great and you just cant go wrong with good ol John Madden hahahahhah! We had a great meal and finished up our journey to Albuquerque NM.
The following day we headed to the radio station to talk about the show and I have to say it was all out antics! I really don’t want to give it away cause i have it on video but I’ll say that it involves a tazer and our merch guy….. good times.
OK well i think that’s all for now!
cheers!