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Day 8: Las Vegas, Nevada

06/11/07

We begin another ‘long ass drive’ to Vegas to recuperate for a day after the past couple of days of insanity. I’d personally like to play Salt Lake, but the promoter still hasn’t been in touch. My throat is officially blown as well, I can barely speak above a whisper. It hurts to talk and swallow, something about the mountain air really did me in. I am medicating myself by swigging cough medicine that leaves me drowsy, and by eating honey on tortilla bread. The cough medicine tastes of nasty menthol but I have to do it otherwise I will be screwed in California. I feel like a hobo with a hipflask as I take infrequent sips of the stuff. As the defacto book keeper I am totting up the sums of the tour so far and it’s not looking good, the drive across the Mid-West has killed us financially. Hopefully we will make some of it up in California. Read more

Here’s the start of my write-up of my diaries from the Frightener USA tour, which happened on October/November of 2007 with Pulling Teeth. I’m taking this stuff straight from my diary, so if I say thanks and don’t put your name down, please don’t take offence, I just forgot to note it down afterwards. I am crap at remembering names at the best of times. Anyways, here goes: Read more