The Beginning.
Anyways, Melissa’s already captured a lot, so I’ll just try to fill the gaps. I’m sitting in a coffee shop in downtown Olympia waiting for our next show tonight at Le Voyeur. Hard to believe it’s only been two days. ..
First of all, thanks to everyone who has helped us in the last few days. Peter Hatch did a great job with our official tour poster (LA fans, you can pick one up for FREE at one of our two LA shows). Adam pressed some more t-shirts at the last minute (hopefully we’ll sell a few). Leah, your trail mix and cookies have been KEY!! Melissa even showed the self-discipline to ration the cookies or else we would have devoured them in the first hour. Thanks so much to David Fletcher for having us on at The Fox and Goose in Sacramento. For those of you in LA, you’ll get a chance to see his brand of country-inflected pop when he plays with us at The Scene in Glendale on July 6th. And thanks to my friend Raul for letting us stay with him at his (well not exactly his) place.
Cows on I5.
Great Depression?.
Sacto, City of Trees.
Melissa and the crew at The Fox and Goose.
Melissa in an homage to MJ.
Melissa's long-lost friend Julie...moving to LA soon, so watch out.
David Fletcher...good stuff.
So the 12 hour trek from Sacramento to Tacoma really wasn’t that bad. I’ve never been north of Ashland, OR. It doesn’t hurt that the scenery is ridiculously gorgeous (unlike, let’s say, the journey between LA and Sacramento--see above). The few snow-capped peaks (Shasta, Hood, Rainier) on the way up seem like pretty little mile posts. My exposition on the Pacific Ring of Fire may be completely wrong—everything I know comes from Wikipedia.
Mount Shasta.
Sy’s pizza in Eugene was good. We’ll have to play Eugene next time around.
Bob’s Java Jive—what a place! It’s in this little gem in an ugly industrial part of Tacoma, WA, squashed between the freeway and a school bus depot. It’s a coffee pot, not a tea kettle. They treated us pretty well—two whole pitchers of beer (which, mom, we shared with others so as to not drive away intoxicated at the end of the night).
The World Famous Bob's Java Jive.
Rad.
We went on first and played a decent set. Melissa sang happy birthday to a woman named Mandy, and then realized it was actually Sandy. Oops. The Timbreines (Salem), Tim and the Time Machines (Seattle), and The Electrolytes (Seattle) were all great, but the highlight of the night had to be Melissa hopping on for some impromptu shaker with a ruffle-shirted Tim from Tim and the Time Machines (not me). After the first two shows, I’m realizing that it’s not necessarily super-crowded shows that are important, but getting to meet all these other great people doing the same stuff we’re doing.
Jeff from Tim and the Time Machines
Tim from Tim and the Time Machines. We gave them a shaker, they gave us a trophy.
Our merch table.
Melissa shakes with Tim and the Time Machines.
(Side note...our tour "van" couldn't possibly fit anything else, so we couldn't bring along the photographer who was dying to come with us...so a lot of these live photos have been of others...we'll try to con someone into capturing us the next few nights).
We went into Tacoma without a place to stay, and ended up staying with the guys from The Timbreines and their friend Mariah in Seattle near UW (thanks Mariah, and good luck with the back-packing trip in Europe!). What great people, and I’m hoping the rest of Seattle is this nice. We’ll have more time to explore in the next few days…
Anyways, that’s it for now. More on Olympia later…
Tim
THTG
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