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.
Let’s start off where we started off, in Indianapolis, Indiana waking up at 7AM, after getting about 3 1/2 hours sleep. The night before I had picked up my stimulant of choice, a rockstar juiced (triple strength), something I drink very, very sparingly as my system is caffeine free. This is a stark contrast to the coffee acheivers that are my band mates. It essentially completely jacks me up., but it gets the job done.
The job in this case being the drive through Ohio.
A very pretty Ohio skyline, trust me, it’s not always like that.
Here are things that i’ve learned: Cambridge, Ohio is a depressing place to stop, most of Pennsylvania seems to be a gigantic speed trap (55?? c’mon guys), and that it is possible to actually get a 4th wind while driving.
Ben and I switched off on driving as a present to Chris, I ended up doing most of it, which is fine.
We picked up our good pal/stranger from the internets M’ris in Philadelphia to be our roadie/merch girl for the week. This is very exciting, and i’m still not entirely certain why she agreed to be locked up in a van for a week with 4 smelly noiserock guys, but nevertheless we are very happy to have her.
What we are less happy for is the ABSOLUTE STANDSTILL on the interstate that we ran into on our way to the venue. You know… the one that we hit when we were 15 minutes away from being there. Watching the time slip… A… WAY!!
(Dun dah… dun dah… dun dah… dun dah… )
All in all we arrived at the venue in one piece… you know… this place:
We had joked the entire time, especially in the last 3 hours of the drive, that we would get to the venue and get the “I don’t want to rush you, but you have to load on stage and play RIGHT NOW!” line.
Take a wild guess what happened?
“Hi , we’re Replicator from Oakland, California, and we just drove through 5 states for 14 hours straight to play here, so here goes…”
setlist:
Fashionably Latent
King Shit of Fuck Mountain
Payment Www.yzzz.rd
Delicious Fornicake
Baby, I Want to Terraform Your Planet
Login With My Fist
We played well, especially considering the circumstances, very aggro, but well. Although to a somewhat mixed reaction, a select few were really stoked, including an older fellow who was flipping out, and (thankfully) M’ris’s friends. However most people were indifferent to freaked out. Kind of funny that. We did get shots bought for us again though, which is always nice.
At this point I would like to remind you about the band eating clown:
That’s M’ris there being terrified by said band eating clown.
Naked Mason played next, which is a Blueshammer style band full of really, really nice guys, and whose drummer both:
A) drives a hearse
B) Looks a little like the cryptkeeper
and
C) invited us to jam after the show.
awesome!
Thanks to Chuck for putting this together and trying to bring different kinds of bands to Delaware. It’s a bummer that we didn’t play Philadelphia this time, but it ended up being a pretty fun show, especially for such adverse circumstances, and it really and truly was a lot of fun.
Total merch sold was actually $0.00 for the first time this tour, but we did get our share of the door from the Cryptkeepers band, which… after door expenses and all that rounded out to $50.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRIS!
You can’t really see the flyer, but apparantly Satan is throwing the show!
Why is there a guillotine there? And what does the alligator have to do with it?
Perhaps the alligator skin girl left it?
here are some more pictures from Mojo 13:
Zome the Sadist!
Replicator tour bonus pictures:
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you guys were fuckin awesome at Mojo 13 - mucho respecto for driving so far for so little and then still a great set! funny you mention rb’s resemblance to the cryptkeeper…it has been mentioned before…
i hope if you went down to the studio you had a good time. i had a sick kid at home so i couldn’t hang. hope the rest of your shows are free of band-eating clowns!
ross
Hey guys, Bill (formerly of Collisionville) wants to come to your gig in Boston tomorrow, but he says the bar listings conflict with what’s on your flyer. It is tomorrow, 8/28/07 that you’re in Beantown, right?
Hey Ross, yeah we were REALLY stoked to see RB’s car too. Had we been in our right mind we would have certainly taken a picture with it.
I *LOVE* the cryptkeeper, so consider that a compliment for sure.
No worries man, sick kids always take precedence, thanks for rocking with us man.
Hey Stephen: we’re going to BE in Boston on the 28th… but we aren’t PLAYING until the 29th, tomorrow. The tour flyer thing has become increasingly inaccurate since we cannot update it.
What the hell, my comment from a few days ago didn’t take.
Anyway, yeah, if you took I-70 then you came right through here, about 6 hours or so ahead of tornadoes. And there are worse pissant towns than Cambridge, but yeah.
for awhile we were calling the tour the 4 Replicators of the Apocalypse due to the high propensity of natural disasters happening all around us, hurricanes, earthquakes, flooding, mudslides, tornados…
you know, the standard!
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Comment by jamie — August 26, 2007 @ 4:52 pm
that club looks amazing.
my friend nato was on the SAME highway in the SAME stuck traffic as you, but in the other direction. he got out and walked around it was so still.
because, living in a van for a month or less with 4 smelly guys and an itinerary and a whim is fun. no, really, it is, i swear!
go to Cafe Chaos in Montreal, and a guy who books the shows and runs the movie night - he is the french canadian twin to Naked Mason’s drummer. he is CRAZY and drives like a maniac, too. you’d love him.