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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”
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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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.
Freedom Tickler, “tickle her fancy with the REAL thing, it’s the patriotic thing to do.”
Hilarious condom available at a rural gas station.
We left Robert’s house pretty early, after making sure to hook him up with as many Replicator buttons and stickers as he could handle. Thanks guys! I had a total scare when I thought I had left my brand new perscription sunglasses (or “perscription stunnaz” if you prefer), at his place, and I realized we didn’t have his number. I basically had a couple of kittens freaking out, since I used to be photoallergenic and am still really, really sensitive to bright light.
Luckilly I had stowed it away in a compartment in my sidebag… whew!
one of the things I really wanted to do before we left Memphis is visit Sun Studios, home of Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, etc. It’s still an active recording studio, but it’s the only recording studio that’s a national landmark. Awesome.
I was worried about having enough money to actually pay for the tour, when the really nice girl at the register informed us that since we were a band we all got free admission for the price of a cd. BAD-ASS!
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.
It was tough leaving Austin, as Paul’s house was both comfortable and pretty rad. However, Tennessee awaited! So leave we did.We got up entirely too early, and get on the road… I drive for 6 hours straight through the rest of Texas. While listening to the Cyn Cyn cd, we erupt into spontaneous cheers when we finally get to Arkansas. I actually liked Austin a lot, but there sure is a lot of Texas out there, it’s nice to finally be in a different state.
At Printer’s Alley, Todd and Chris, pseudo artsy shot.
One of the interesting things about tour is the journey there, meaning all of the places you see along the way, you see some really amazing things such as this:
Classy Taqueria sign in Rural Arkansas at a very crappy gas station.
We stopped for gas at a gas station that had pretty miuch the slowest gas pump i’ve ever heard. I guess they had a problem with the pumps and it was in the process of being fixed, all I know is that we went to do a different gas station so we could keep going. In any case, Arkansas was next, and we stopped for lunc in a town called Hope.
