Novermber 28, Eisley hanging in Long Island/Manhattan
Sat Nov 29, 2003 2:01 am
We woke up all over the in sleeping bags on the floor of the lead singer
of some rock band called Brand New this morning.
First let me get one thing straight. This is to Eisley's existing fans. I am in
no way sucking up or name dropping Brand New for any reason other
than - we've become great friends with them and this is my Xanga. I
speak nothing but the truth on this forum...I tell more than what anyone
needs to hear and I simply write about EXACTLY what we do...day by
day. You might be sick of hearing about Brand New. That's ok. But we've
been guests on their tour - and it's very appropriate to show them thanks
and even to respect their fans on this forum since many of them are also
becoming Eisley fans.
Anyway, backing up a bit, we arrived in Long Eisland about...heck, I don't
remember, we'd driven all night long; Daniel - first shift, me 2nd, Jesse -
3rd and all the way in. After arriving at his family's home, complete with
6 siblings and a set of parents, we sat on the couch and stared in a
stupor. We were zoned. Thank God for the 96 iced down "Yoo-Hoo's"
they'd purchased, we slowly recovered.
It was awesome to get out of hotelville and just hang out in this amazing
environment - a regular family; almost a clone of ours only in the North
East. It was loud, fun, festive..there was lots of great food; the only thing
missing was Kim and Collin, which, again is very sad. But we did eat a
huge Thanksgiving diner with their entire fam. Thanks Sandy; I know
you're reading.
That night, Jesse's dad Tom insisted that Eisley play music for them,
so...we pulled Chauntelle's Larave' out of the trailer and they did 3 or 4
songs; the Lacy's were gracious enough to marvel, being huge Eisley
fans from the youngest to the oldest. By this time, sleeping bags were
strown all over their den floor; I grabbed one and crashed so deeply that
I never heard them all around me till 4:00am when they finally gave up
on the day.
The next morning, those guys fixed us a massive breakfast. Jesse and I
scooted over to some amazing bagel joint and bought the list his dad
gave him. Within an hour we were eating from his dad's FIVE POUND
bacon chunk, bagels with cheese, cream cheese, vegetable cream
cheeze, real butter, fried eggs, etc. It was the best. Tons of deliciousness
and fun at the same time.
Long story short - around 4:00, we said our goodbyes, packed up the
personals and headed into the big city. We checked into this nice hotel
called the Washington Jefferson near the Roseland and walked over to
the venue in the rain to wait for will call; once inside, we got our back
stage passes, and just chilled.
Toward the end of Brand New's set to their sold out 3,300 seater, Sherri
and Stacy graced the stage and helped Jesse sing that one song. He'd
been begging them to join him on that song for half the tour, but they
were too chicken. Anyway, the tune is amazing, the performances were
all great tonight.... Brand New had the best show of the tour.
Also, we met Chris from Dashboard...he walked into the dressing room,
Jesse introduced us to "some guy from Dashboard"....and he stayed to
listen to the them practice their song.
After the show, we went with a big pile of people - mainly comprised of
the Lacey family (spelling? wups) and their NY friends to a place called
"Ray's Pizza" for what Jesse's dad called Pizza Pie. He kept saying, "how's
the pie? Since we're from Texas and never heard the word pie associated
with Pizza, we mocked the word "pie" all night...saying things like, "this
pie is dripping it's pie grease...", or "dang, these pies are hot"...or "can
you hand me another piece of pie?" Tom thought we were mildly funny.
But we were very funny. Seriously, though, that was the best pie I've
ever eaten. No joke.
The band sat with Jesse and some of his neighborhood friends who were
scared to come over to the house to meet Eisley all day.
Eisley was never on this show from the beginning. The tour was built
around that date that was pre-existing. Stray light was booked as the
opener early on. Thus, Eisley's small club show at Sin-e's.
I posted info on the front page of the forum about the show if anyone
wants to come. I think it could easily sell out. (not sure....also, nobody
could show up and we'd feel pretty sad)
ok I officially can't stay awake and am not coherant. Will touch in
tomorrow. falling asleep.
bd
p.s. official info about the new york show listed as new temporary topic
on forum front page if anyone missed it.
http://www.eisley.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2789
Also, I'm about to be heading into the abyss of driving, driving
driving... with few hotels. During the 24 hour drive home, I will be
working on the video captures to post as pics on all of these shows. First
hotel we decide to stay in along the way, I'll upload. My goal is to have it
all done before we get home. That could be challenged by driving and
hotels with dial up connection. Sorry for delays, yall. I feel like I've lost
the battle here at the end of the tour.
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