I think it was just after St. Louis that I stopped keeping track of what day it was, when the ritual goes something like drive, load-in, set up, play, sell, break down, sleep, drive, repeat it doesn’t matter if it’s Sunday or Wednesday.
We drove from STL to Kansas City, passed the Brown vs. Board Of Education historic site, the infamous court case the ended segregation in city schools in Topeka and paved the way for the US civil rights movement. So that was cool. Then we hit western Kansas and every third billboard was scary, like WHERE WILL YOU SPEND ETERNITY? types of awesomeness.
Somewhere in the middle of it all, I got everyone in love with the song Empire Ants off the new Gorillaz album and the flatness seemed less flat at the two-minute mark of that song. So we kept playing it over and over again.
It was the night before Easter, we were in Kansas City and after the set was over we peeled off into little Chinese joint that was taken from the cells of the Chinese restaurant in A Christmas Story. The place was empty and there was duck on the menu.
Here is the tour vid.
