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Hi everybody, i’m Conan Neutron, I play in the band Replicator from Oakland, CA. There are many tour diaries, but this one is mine. Thanks to the SSC gang for asking us to do it here.
Wow, i’m really, really behind here… sorry folks.
Detroit at Small’s was a fun show, if you take away the combative relationship we had with the very moody soundguy.
Chris GoGoing to Ifihadahifi
For some reason we have bad luck with sound people, but not as bad luck as the dude who was apparantly shot down the street (!)
Hi everybody, i’m Conan Neutron, I play in the band Replicator from Oakland, CA. There are many tour diaries, but this one is mine. Thanks to the SSC gang for asking us to do it here.
Day 14 we drove, we drove a lot… nothing especially notable happened. Originally we were going to play Pittsburgh, but that got all screwed up, so we didn’t. We drove, we ate, we slept. I will spare you the play by play.
Day 15: We are officially in Replicator/Ifihadahifi tour mode right now, or if you prefer the IfihadaReplitour as it has been dubbed. Yes indeed, we have hooked up with our good pals from Wisconsin the Hifi for the next 4 shows of our tour, good, good times. The venue, the Gypsy Hut in Cincinatti Ohio, was a very promising place indeed, we drove up only to be greeted and shown where to load in and all the other particulars you normally have to ask for. A good start! Television (the band) was playing on the jukebox. The place seemed to have an awesome new little nook and cranny around every corner. Professional stage with real pal? check! Outdoor patio?: check! With second level balcony? Check! Other then being a little labyrinthian it seemed downright badass.
Very nice because when we first arrived I only saw the front barroom and just assumed we’d be playing in the corner or something.
It was shaping up to be rather awesome.
And then the Hifi showed up…
Hi everybody, i’m Conan Neutron, I play in the band Replicator from Oakland, CA. There are many tour diaries, but this one is mine. Thanks to the SSC gang for asking us to do it here.
There are no two ways about it, by the time we had reached Boston we were pretty spent, emotionally, mentally and physically exhausted with a series of shows that, while featuring good performances and some great people, were definitely less then stellar. Morale was low and our cash flow situation even lower.
Luckily, our time in Boston was JUST what we needed, a chance to recharge the mental and emotional batteries with a day off in a kick ass city, and a well and truly wicked awesome show!
And indeed, Replicator had a wicked awesome time.
Conan telling it like it is at the show…
Replicator posing all crazy go nuts like.
But first we stayed at this place:
Our crappy hotel, which Todd dubbed “the Moneyshot motor lodge”
Hi everybody, i’m Conan Neutron, I play in the band Replicator from Oakland, CA. There are many tour diaries, but this one is mine. Thanks to the SSC gang for asking us to do it here.
I dreamed that there was a gigantic alien spaceship destroying the planet, giant destructive beams levelling cities, forests, townships, mini-malls, everything. Whenever another city would explode in shattering glass and fire, I would stir a little bit, until finally I woke up and realized that there was a garbage truck right next to my head and that dudes were emptying cans into it. Tour had invaded even the deepest part of my distopian dreams. This wasn’t half as good as looking around bleary eyed from the bench seat of the Supernaut to see a well dressed man in a suit and tie with a briefcase giving me a horrified and disgusted look at the realization that the van near his place had held a sleeping rock and roll type person with colored hair. Ahh yes, good times.
This, folks… is the rock and roll lifestyle.
We were ready to leave DC almost immediately. I really didn’t want to miss seeing ANYTHING in DC for the second time in a row, but it was starting to look like that was going to be the case. We had to get the new t-shirt design out to Chris from hifi so that we can have a new set of tshirts in time for the leg of the tour with them. Soooo… again it looked like I was going to be in our nations capital and not able to actually see anything. Total drag, but that’s the thing with tour. A lot of people, non band people anyway, always say: “oh cool! you’re going on a vacation/roadtrip”, yes, but the thing is on vacations and roadtrips you generally get to see the city instead of the venue, where ever you are staying and where you eat. Don’t get me wrong, it’s great, but it’s not a vacation, not at all.
Anyway, we did at least get to drive by the Washington Monument, Capital building, and the Asshole in Chief’s pad , which is more then I had seen before… so there you go.
We drove for awhile through Maryland, and up the Jersey turnpike, which… incidentally is very recognizable from the Sopranos, then into New York City. One of the best and at the same time overrated cities in the world.
check out below the fold for an explanation of that statement.
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The events around the show in our fine nations capital was stressful and exhausting, involved but it’s true, at least there were cookies.
But before DC we had stayed the night in Philadelphia…
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Let’s say you just drove 14 hours straight through 6 states to play a show on your tour, let’s also hypothetically say that this is the first thing you see when you get out of the van:
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Yup, Replicator played Wilmington, Delaware at the Mojo 13, which spparantly is the home of band swallowing clown.
but i’m getting ahead of myself here.
