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During the end of the first encore Tat threw her yellow Brazil up on stage in front of Ed. Ed picked up her shirt, looked at it and stuffed it in his back pocket. The encore break ends and the band leaves the stage. When the band returns, Ed still has Tat’s shirt and drapes it across one of the speakers at the center of the stage. Tat is very...
Driving on our way up to Edmonton with the 4 full timers (Dirk, Jason, Tak and Myself) and a new girl from Italy, Barbara. We saw Mike from Albany off last night at 5am, he was a lot of fun to have around.
Last nights show in Calgary was pretty amazing. We had row 9 seats thanks to the Tenclub. When we picked up our tickets we got to he...
Jul 16, 2006
San Francisco
Hot and sunny
The next morning I had to drive Stefan out to the airport to fly back to Vancouver, but he’ll be back at the Gorge. As I pull out of the parking lot, the van stalls. I start it again and take off but it feels very weak. The van had become gutless, no acceleration, barely going up...
