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Tour Diary – Banff, Alberta (April 21, 2013)
Another early morning call and another 4 hour drive down that f@c#ing highway. If life is a highway, I'd hate to be the poor sucker who happens to pick up Highway 2. I think I hear a new song coming...
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Tour Diary – Whitehorse, Yukon (April 23, 2013)
It was a long journey, but well worth it. The air alone is worth the trip. Whitehorse is much like any northern town in any northern country that we have had the pleasure of visiting. Canada, Norway,...
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Tour Diary – Victoria, BC (April 25, 20130
Upon setting foot in Victoria we were overwhelmed with the colours, the verdant green, the freakin' flaming tulips. A week of traversing a land locked in the dull gray of late winter made us forget...
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Tour Diary – Seattle, WA (April 27, 2013)
We flew out of Victoria to Vancouver and, finally, hooked up with our bus. Those quiet stationary nights in hotel rooms are now finished, but so is the constant packing and unpacking and the daily...
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Tour Diary – Spokane, WA (April 28, 2013)
I really like this town. There is something unexpected about it. In the middle of seemingly nowhere is this very cool little oasis that the Spokanians have built up. The river that runs through...
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Tour Diary – Bend, Oregon (April 29, 2013)
This town is like a little slice of heaven. Perfect climate, a brew pub on every other corner, a choice of excellent restaurants of all stripes and the Deschutes River winding lazily through the...
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Tour Diary – Napa, CA (May 1, 2013)
Pete's ipad sketch of the Montreal Forum …and all of a sudden it's summer. We arrived in Napa yesterday morning, stepped off the bus and melted….less than a week ago we were freezing up in Whitehorse,...
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Tour Diary – San Francisco, CA (May 2, 2013)
We arrived in San Fran this morning and everyone scattered, taking advantage of the few hours that we had in this great city tocontribute to its economy. Al bought some vinyl, Pete bought a hat, Jeff...
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Tour Diary – Saratoga, CA (May 3, 2013)
We played the Montalvo Arts Centre a few years ago as part of a Summer tour with Son Volt. That gig took place in the outdoor venue, but this time we are a little early for the summer series so we are...
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Tour Diary – Santa Cruz, CA (May 4, 2013)
This is not a bad town in which to end a tour. I've always liked it here, there is a certain impermanence about it, a beach town with lots of hippies and surfers and vagrants and many, many...
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Tour Diary – Anchorage, AK (Sept 5, 2013)
Alaska is far, eh? I walked out our front door at 4:30am, Pete and I went to our studio, loaded our equipment, hooked up with brother John, drove to the airport, paid Air Canada $700 for our excess...
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Tour Diary – Anchorage, AK (Sept 6, 2013)
It's the rainy season here in Alaska…who knew? It came down pretty much all day so I spent most of it in my room. I was in no mood to browse through the dozens of souvenir shops that line the main...
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Tour Diary – Talkeetna, AK (Sept 7, 2013)
We left Anchorage early this morning on two buses, the Alaska adventure has begun. Many of our patrons/guests/fellow adventures also took part in the Over The Rhine trip so it was a quiet three hour...
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Tour Diary – Denali National Park (Sept 8, 9 and 10)
September 8, 2013 It's hard to describe what happened over the past three days. It will take us a while to process it and it will no doubt stay with us for a long, long time. This wasn't an easy...
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Tour Diary – Buffalo, Saugatuck, Chicago (Oct 24 – 26, 2013)
We shuffled off to Buffalo, stumbled down the QEW… a morning departure, an intense but simple border crossing…and we were there. We've never really found a home in Buffalo. We've played various venues...
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Tour Diary – Stoughton and Minneapolis (Oct 27 – 30, 2013)
The day started bright and beautiful, and quickly turned a little gloomier on hearing that Lou Reed had died. He's the first of our rock god pantheon to die a “natural” death, the first of, no doubt,...
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Tour Diary – Iowa City, Evanston and Ann Arbor (Nov 1 – 3, 2013)
Iowa City (Nov 1): We had a day off in Iowa City…Halloween in a college town. Most of us stayed safely inside our rooms and watch the debauchery unfold on the streets below. As the night wore on the...
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Tour Diary – February 26 to March 1, 2014
Ithaca (NY), Bethlehem (PA), South Orange (NJ) and Blackwood (NJ) Feb 26 – March 1, 2014 We had hoped that by simply slipping beneath the border we would find a hint of Spring. No such luck. There has...
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Tour Diary – Ridgefield, CT; Brownsville, ME; Great Barrington, MA (March 6 –...
We have had three days of clear blue skies. The temperature hasn't risen all that much, but the sun feels a smidge warmer, I have spotted an occasional dripping icicle and the other day I came upon a...
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Tour Diary – Agoura Hills, CA (June 12, 2014)
Jason Lent will be following us and the World Cup over the next 10 days. We'll be mixing things up by posting his diary as well as Michael's diary (whenever he can pull himself away from watching...
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