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CouchSurfing in Oklahoma City


Right after the night in Fayettville with the guys and gal from Groovement

A couple of pics

Just woke up in one of the most amazing houses I have ever seen right outside of Fayettville, AR after a wonderful show at the Boom Boom Room. I am going to be writing a bit about the show we played in Norman a little later today, but for now I wanted to upload a couple of pictures and videos.
Aaron E.

Norman OK, I want to be back in college

We woke up at our good friend Michael’s house and promptly got on the road to Norman, OK…and by promptly I mean woke up, watched a couple of reality tv shows, and ate some eggs. Norman is about a 6 hour drive from Kansas City, but after taking the wrong exit and a couple of other wrong turns, it took about 8 hours. We actually took an exit called “Mainstreet” and ended up in a Very small town outside of Norman looking for the venue for awhile until we asked for directions and got laughed at in a southern accent. We arrived at Brothers on the Oklahoma University campus and started unloading our stuff. We noticed that there was no one at the bar and got kind of scared for the nights turnout. Our expectations couldn’t have been more wrong. The bar was about a block away from campus and they were running a $2 all you can drink that night. We started playing around 10:30pm to about 50 people and the crowd slowly grew to about 150 at the end. It was the usual college bar show: covers, people coming up and singing on the mic, requests, girls throwing themselves at the band. At the end of the show we packed all of our stuff up and walked around the Oklahoma University campus (which is one of the most amazing campuses I have been on, and is what some of the pictures above are from) and then headed out to our first couch surfing stop. We got to the house at about 3am and somehow our hostess was awake. Craziest thing: I was wearing a Drake shirt, and the girl that we were staying with asked us if we knew someone that went to Drake. It turns out that the one girl that she knew from highschool in a Very small town in Wisconsin dated Steve in college for awhile….strange. We swiftly went to bed and got some rest to make the haul to Fayetteville AR in the morning.

-Aaron E.

First Couple Nights of Tour

First of all, we are having competing blogs among the band....and by among the band I mean everyone vs. Boomer. So make sure to check www.boomzpicks.blogspot.com/ for tour through the eyes of Adam Boomer.

Secondly: my post:

An odd, but educational way to start the tour. We showed up early to The Riot Room to see employees and patrons decked out in tattoos, spiked hair, and anything else you think of when you imagine running around a Sex Pistols concert. Since we only had 35 minutes to play we promptly wrote a set featuring our most distorted, loudest, finger shredding music. After our quick (and loud) set was up we talked it over as a band and were wondering why the now growing crowd didn’t seem particularly interested in our brand of hardcore.

We quickly got our answer as the night progressed. We watched the next two bands: one group featuring acoustic style bluegrass with a banjo and upright bass and the other, a pleasant sounding folk duet. We had just learned our first lesson of tour, which is to judge the venue based on everything, not just the giant red letters on the marquee and the slightly scary dude working behind the bar.

The night was in no way a loss however, there was a DJ on the outdoor patio and after several drinks we found ourselves being some of the only ones brave enough to dance (aside from the giant dreaded man who took a hard fall around 1:30 a.m.). After the show Mike Strong (a friend/love interest of Aaron and I’s from Drake) was kind of enough to have us at his house (thanks Mike). He cooked us up some delicious frozen pizzas and I slept on the most deceptively uncomfortable piece of furniture imaginable. Tonight, we head to Norman to creepily watch college girls from our van so keep reading…

Steven P.

Blog To Commence March 31st

Thanks for checking out the blog. Our west coast tour runs from March 31-May 1 and we will be constantly updating the blog throughout our trip. I would love to make promises about how often we will be updating the blog, but more than likely we will do it at random.

Later,

Aaron E.