Day 6 (Boise, ID): Monday nights are always tough! I would rather play a Sunday because all of the waitresses, bartenders, and bouncers go drinking on Sundays - we refer to it as an "industry night". Anyways, we played a comedy club and had a pretty mediocre crowd. As you'll see in the pictures, I actually got bored (drunk) enough to take some pictures of us while we were playing! It beats a night off, though.
Day 7 (no show): Nursing the worst collective hangover since we started touring, we had to go back to the club and tear down/load up our stuff, which was not-so-conveniently located on the 2nd story of a downtown building on a weekday. After holding up a lane of traffic and sweating booze for 45 minutes, we left and found a cheap RV park, showered, then plugged in and enjoyed the air conditioner for the rest of the day.
Day 8 (Idaho Falls, ID???): We got up and drove to Idaho Falls, ran a few errands (music store, internet stop), then met Jana & Tyler Petty (siblings, not spouses) for early dinner at one of the best sandwich shops I've ever been to (Mike McCroden can vouch for me when I say that). Then we rolled out to the club, said "hi" to the bartender lady that we met the last time we played there, then started loading in. Around 9:15 P.M., we had everything set up and were still waiting for our sound guy, who is also the club owner and booker. Jana & Tyler showed up and we were hanging out when the dude finally got there and told us the show was cancelled. The only reason he would give us is that the posters we sent him arrived "late" (about 10 days before) and he "didn't have enough time to promote the show". Our take on the situation is that the guy thought he could get more people out with a DJ and is, generally speaking, a dick. So we packed our stuff up (under the watchfull eye of one of the bouncers) and got the hell out of there, plotting our revenge all the way to Missoula, MT, where we stopped for the night. All told, he screwed us out of about $400 cash and $150 worth of fuel by making us drive to Idaho Falls and not play a show. Needless to say, we'll never go back to The 840, and never stop telling people how shady the owner, Shawn, is.
Ben & Jonny goofing around in Boise.
This is me getting creative with my camera.
Jana outside of the Sandwich Tree - great sandwiches!
My sandal, that Ben stepped on and broke when he was trying to ruin my picture of the Sandwich Tree.
Myself and Jana, after the show that she didn't get to see because of The 840's crooked owner, Shawn.
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