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Left Edmonton Thursday evening to make Vancouver for Friday at noon. 99 free-lined it to Erik's, found the place empty, and promptly fell asleep on his couch. Was woken up a couple hours later with the comotion of bass amps and cabs being loaded in quickly. He was between gigs and had to split for Whistler. So quick hugs, a high-five, and I found myself with the place to myself again. I put on the Office DVDs I had watched at his place a few weeks prior, made a can of soup, and was happy to see the box of Jamacian patties I had picked up before was still hiding in the back of the freezer.
Canada Lined it to Grandville to make load-in at 6. Show was awesome, the Elixxxirs & RCR. I like how in Vancouver finishing the show before 11pm has become the norm, because I like having a night after to sit around with everybody, instead of loading gear out a dark alley with just enough time left over afterwards to call it a night. Pretty goods stories came out of hanging out afterwards, including DL3 & I dancing to terrible dance music on the speakers infront of the dancefloor, him doing Frank the Tank and me doing whatever my impression of what I think good dancing back in the 80's must have looked like.
Left Saturday morning for Kelowna. Checked into the hotel around 6 and had every intention of hitting the hot-tub, but an exceptionally boring episode of Family Guy put me to sleep for a few hours. Played Doc Willoughby's that night, my favourite bar in BC, and possibly top 5 of anywhere, including Jumbo's Clown Room in Hollywood & Les Foufounes Électriques in Montreal. Played a great, great show, I think taking a saxophone solo while crowd-surfing was the highlight of my night. Christine & Shane came down!!! And Alicia!
We left early-ish Sunday morning thinking of making a day of the beach before we had to play, but arrived just shortly before sound-check. My two new friends from Doc's (who hoisted me above their heads for that solo) came down, and after RCR played and the rest of the guys went on to Vancouver, and instead of hitting the Greyhound station and buying a ticket home, the three of us and the local punk-rock contingent of the Kamloops Music In The Park crowd went over to the Central. Where climbing other people's rooftops and playing the saxophone for everybody is aparantly my new thing. Then, we went downtown to another place where randomly we ran into Sean & Angie!!
And instead of going to the Greyhound station the next morning and buying a ticket home, the three of us drove back to Kelowna. I met up with Christine & Shane and they took me Stand Up Paddle Boarding! My first time! The first 30 minutes was alright, I was prepared for it to be more like surfing, but after a bit when my core started fatiguing I found that balancing started getting worse, and after 2 hours I could start to feel each paddle take a little more wind out of me. SUP boarding is my new favourite thing this summer. Then we went to theirs for burgers, wine, talks about music, and found a signed copy of a Social Code poster (with Morgan & Travis) in their 13-year-old daughter's room! That made my day. Then Alicia came over after dinner and hung out for a bit, then her & I went to Doc's and I got to see Colin, the awesome manager of that wonderful bar. Then we went to Flashbacks, because that's how we roll.
Went shopping for second-hand books Tuesday morning (I go through a lot of books on the Greyhound) and spent the afternoon reading in the bus terminal, shredding Taco Tuesday at the Tacotime, and waiting for the bus. A full day later and I'm still on the Prolitariat Chariot. I've managed something like 1000 km in 24 hours. At least the Calgary terminal has free wifi. And my old roommate from Vancouver, John!
Me crowd-surfing at Doc's in Kelowna:
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