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JUNE 15TH | Piano’s w/ Le Rug, Scott Alexander | New York, NY

Kiley, Eric E., and I took the 9:00am train into Penn Station to meet up with some friends and see the city. Kiley and I wandered around Times Square for what seemed like hours until we met up with some friends in Soho (I think) for lunch.










Apparently you can buy crystal meth on the streets for $5 in NY.


They’re getting pretty creative with the makeup names nowadays.


Here’s a weird wall sculpture thingy of John McEnroe that we saw in the ESPN zone. It moved and everything. Eww.


We got to Piano’s at 5:00 for load-in.




The show got pushed back an hour and we didn’t play until midnight. Here’s what happens when we hang out with our friends at a bar for seven hours…


Good news is that they’re apparently pretty strict with their employees’ hygiene.


We played with a band called Le Rug…





You can read a review of our set at Venus Magazine’s website.

After an exhaustingly long day we headed back to Jersey for our last night at the Tomko’s aunt & uncle’s.

No 7 things. No Plaid O’ The Day®. And I’m retiring MVP Of The Day by awarding the Tomko’s Aunt Donna the award for the last three days. The woman did not rest until we had everything we could possibly need or want – you couldn’t ask for better hospitality at a five-star hotel. Aunt Donna... pssht, more like Saint Donna! Thanks Aunt Donna!


Cheers,
Steve | GAH

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JUNE 14TH | Café Metropolis w/ The Marquees | Wilkes-Barre, PA

We hung around the Tomko’s aunt & uncles and ate some awesome breakfast (omelettes, French toast, seasoned potatoes) and some awesome lunch (burgers, hotdogs, thai peanut noodle salad, tuna mac salad, chicken drumsticks, etc.), and then piled our full bellies into the van to head back to Pennsylvania. I tried to pour an Emergen-C packet into my bottle of water right when the van hit a pothole…


We got to Café Metropolis, which looks like this from the front…


This from the back (which is the main entrance)…


And this from inside…







We played with a local band called The Marquees…



After the show we high-tailed it back to Aunt Donna’s for leftover pizza and burgers.

Seven Things That Represent The Members Of Our Band:


The Plaid O’ The Day®:


Cheers,
Steve | GAH

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JUNE 13TH | Day Off | Cooperstown, NY/New Jersey

We got the van back from the Ford dealer and were relieved to find out that the problem was very minor: When Mike got the oil changed in the van a couple weeks back, he had them change the air filter, too, and when they closed the air filter compartment, they pinched off the vacuum hose for the brakes. Simple fix, but a potentially scary situation.

We had no show for the day, so we figured we’d make a stop at Cooperstown on the way to Mike and Stephen’s aunt & uncle’s house in Jersey. While Eric H., Stephen, Ryan and Kiley walked around the quaint little NY town, Eric, Mike and I checked out the Baseball Hall of Fame.

There’s so much stuff to look at and read – you could literally spend an entire day in the museum – so I focused my camera on the things that mattered most… Cardinals history...
















He's Getting Close:


Awesome Cooperstown Bathroom Graffiti:

Scrawling 1: "ALFONSO SORIANO IS THE BEST GO CUBS!!!"
Scrawling 2: "haha he broke his wrist Go Cardinals"

Manufactured Dramatic Picture Of The Day:



We got into Jersey late, but the Tomko’s Aunt Donna had been sweet enough to not only stay up for us, but keep some authentic Jersey pizza warming for us in the oven. After checking out some kid pics of the Brothers Tomko, we went to bed.




Seven Things That Represent The Members Of Our Band:


The Plaid O’ The Day®:


Cheers,
Steve | GAH