November 26, Cincinnati, Ohio. Bogarts - Last Official Show
Fri Nov 28, 2003 4:52 pm
Last Official Show of the Tour, but Eisley plays tomorrow night in NYC.
Meanwhile....Bogarts. What a night. If you were there, you
know what i'm talking about. I still don't believe that was 1,500 people. It
looked like 2000+ to me...packed wall to wall. I couldn't even get from
back stage along the side wall to the back. Though it was cold outside,
the air inside the venue was so hot from human fumes, it was choking
me almost to the point of gagging.
For those of you who came just to see Eisley perform their 6 songs, I
apologize. Well, sorta. In one regard, it was like the last day of high
school for the bands on this tour...on another level, it was similar to the
hazing one might expect at the beginning of a school year. I'm
referencing Phil's (Jesse's guitar tech) entry and dance throughout their
last tune - Tree Tops - which cracked the girls up and interrupted the flow
of the song.
It got worse back stage; directly after eisley's set, a hired male stripper
(of course, with instructions not to really strip) posing as a cop came in
to their dressing room reporting that he'd heard that minors were being
served alcohol and were drinking. The entire crew of both the other
bands were in on it and playing up to it....you know, like...hide the beer,
etc. (though eisley doesn't drink, there's massive glugs of beer iced down
in their dressing room at every show) (wait...did someone ask why Eisley
doesn't drink? oh... i thought so; that's a different question for another
post)
Anyway...it was sorta lame, because the fake cop totally blew his cover
by saying, "it's just a joke"...but that was after handcuffing Sherri - which
totally turned her into a psycho-crazy person; she yanked and bucked
and freaked and tried to squirm out... (that's my girl) The buffed out bozo
then tried to get Chauntelle to do weird things and finally said, "hey...do
not interact with the kids..." and he was like, "what?!" i repeated - "do not
interact with them at all, dude...that's not cool". And then I said, "they're
my kids"...and he was like..."oh, they're your kids? oh...ohh..." The kids
all ran out of the room and he left. He only took off his shirt and that was
sick enough. Everyone else laughed and had a hoot. The girls were only
slightly traumatized and ran off to recover emotionally. Jesse said it was
by far the most bizarre thing he'd ever seen.
Though it had been planned for several days, Jon and Weston certainly
got the Brand New guys back. They paid Casey from Hot Rod $50.00 to
run and jump around on stage with them in their boxers on Brand
New's last song. I think I have video of it and will post a clip. They looked
so dorky - these tall, lanky 6'4" white guys lumbering around like goony,
glowing mutants on stage...and Casey pretty much ripped off Jesse's
shirt, so eventually, it was 4 white bodies jumping around on stage. I was
in the back hanging out with fans waiting to talk to eisley (since they'd
missed their chance because of the poser cop incident) when one of them
said..'do they always do that? it's hilarious" My mouth dropped open and i
quickly turned on my camera and started filming. I was in the very back
of the auditorium, so it's probably lame.
Anyway, the evening was pretty fun and the last song surely punctuated
the end of this tour with a fitting bizarre finale. That's all I can say. It was
fun for us...and certainly, Brand New said touring with Eisley was their
funest tour ever. Of course, you guys should stay tuned into the virtual
tour, because we have our own headlining show tomorrow night at
Sin-e's in lower East village. (only 250 capacity - better get tickets
through ticket master if you want to go. It's only 8 bucks)
Brand New plays another show Friday night (having nothing to do with the
previous tour) at Roseland Ballroom to a sold out 3000+ venue - where
Eisley will sing back up to one of Brand New's songs. (the girls finally
ave in after weeks of prodding) Of course we'll be there just to hang out,
upport the other bands and promote our show tomorrow night. In fact,
esse is going to announce their show and is printing flyer I created to
pass out tonight. (sorry, we're in downtown New York City right now
trying to find our hotel...this city is crazy. How can anyone live and
survive here?)
Back to Cinci': Eisley's show was very decent. The fans I talked to loved
it, but all agreed there were lots of feedback problems and you couldn't
hear the vocals very well. Oh well. Sorry. it was great talking to all you
forum peeps; seriously...and all you guys who said you heard about them
on MTV....or saw them with Coldplay...thanks for coming just to hear 6
songs; some of you drove for hours from different states. That's crazy.
Also, great to meet gRegor who helps me so much with the forum...dang
an all his friends....and Nate...so many we talked to i forgot already...and
fans who waited outside forever in the cold. Gosh. Great talking with you.
I'm sure we'll definitely be back to Ohio.
After the show, we were supposed to go back to the hotel down the street
and get some sweet sleep before the long drive to NY the next day...but
at some point in the evening, we realized that if we were going to have
Thanksgiving dinner at Jesse's house 11 hours away, we were going to
have to bite the bullet and drive through the night to get there in time.
So, after we counted out the merch and settled, we headed into the night
- (left at 1:30am) for NYC.
Daniel took the first shift - 1 tank that lasted till 5:00am when I took the
wheel; My tank ran dry around 9:00am the next morning and Jesse
finished the final grueling stretch through NY and out to Long Island
where his family lives. Since we hate driving through this area, it was
great to have the veteran driver along. I'll post about our day today
(friday) on the next entry in case you want to hear about our sleep over
with Jesse's family.
Pics coming. I'll try to work on it tonight...but for sure, tomorrow. We're
about to leave to go to the Brand New show...(in our Hotel, the
Washington Jefferson now) Cheeries. boyd
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