Good to be back pt.2

Feels good to be back

We've been where?

Paranoid

So we played Mississippi Pizza in Portland. Free pizza/drink ticket (only one, LAME). Met a bunch of cool gypsy girls and watched them dance to the last band of the night, Fanno Creek, who killed it by the way but what's wrong with us?! Why can't the cute girls always dance to our songs like everyone in Idaho?! Anywho, Portland is a rad place, kinda odd, but everything is a little unfamiliar when you're away from home.
Were all back in Cali.
If we didn't get our transmission fixed, we would definitely would've been, as Mike Nordin would put it, "done" by Portland. After driving for nearly twelve hours to San Francisco we were eager to get as far away from the money eating/problem causing hunk of metal we call our van. In n Out was the first stop. We lucked out on Noel having a really cool older (half)brother that just happens to live in SF. He's been kind enough to take us in for a couple of nights and let us knock out in the living room. We spent the day buying wrong boarding passes, riding busses, wondering around aimlessly down in the main city sight seeing and getting delicious clam chowder in sour dough bowls.
Played a fun last show away from home at the Hemlock Tavern, minus a minor setback by Nate and I having to race back to the other end of the city to grab the tour E.P.s from our van. I don't even want to think about driving anywhere anymore. Now we're all paranoid about any smell, sound or van lurching that happens with both vans. Ours still works but it takes a good while to get into second gear, maybe it's just all of the inclines in SF but regardless it's a good thing our new transmission came with a one year/12,000mile warranty.
Anyways, were here another day, more chowder bowls are to be had and were all excited to be coming up on the last stretch of our little tour. See you guys soon.




















- Dan/D&C

Salem, Oregon

Our van made it out alive from transmission surgery. We made it to Olympia Washington last night to play at the 4th avenue tavern (awesome place) right after spending almost two hours washing our clothes at a laundromat/pub/arcade/ping pong joint. Now were all sitting at a coffee shop in Salem Oregon that we just played at listening to a guy do some acoustic solo artist stuff and waiting till nine when moonshine goes up to bring down the walls of this place.
Tomorrow we drive to Portland and have a show at Mississippi Pizza, I've heard nothing but good things so I'm pumped to grub on some pizza and play more music for all of the other pizza eaters out there. Meow


- Dan/D&C

On a mission

Waiting to pick up the van

Better days have been had.

Bad luck struck us again on our way to Bremerton. Our van no longer shifts into second gear and no one wants to be stuck behind a creepy old van going 25 on the freeway. So now were trapped in Seattle, which I don't mind but at the same time were all really bummed that we have to cancel ANOTHER show.

We dropped the van off at Dean transmissions and it's not gonna be cheap to get it fixed. Now were back in the hotel brainstorming ways to make enough to pay it off.
Here's to the good to the good times, let's see what luck tomorrow brings.







- Dan/D&C

Seattle

Stomach aches, no luck with lotto scratchers and cute girls in jogging shorts.

Van Problems in Idaho

The earlier post didn't go through, oh well.

Traffic

Seattle, you're so cold.

At last

Some friends of Edwalls (from past tours) were gracious enough to let all eleven of us smelly musicians crash on their couch for the night on Monday. Big thanks to Matt and Kathleen Speck from Boise. Matt has the original tracks of Dark Side of the Moon in quadrophonic and let us listen to it multiple times. Good people.

We had our fair share of fun in Boise and finally hit the road yesterday afternoon just before Moonshines van was finished getting repaired.
We got to Kennewick ,WA last night around 9:30 after driving through he rain/sleet/snow/fog storm and celebrated Nates 21st birthday later that night at a local spot called the Pub. We left early this morning for Seattle and got here around 2. We spent the day trying to get all the soccer girls staying at our hotel to come to our show (in an hour) and letting Nate get us lost in the city.
Everyone we have met so far has been really nice and down to earth, and were loving every minute of it.
Till next time



- Dan/D&C

Bad news

Nate and I got up early to take the van in to the transmission guys here in Boise. The owner told us that we need our transmission re-built, which takes three days and we already had to cancel tonights show in Everett, WA. It's looking like were gonna take a leap of faith and chance the 12 hour drive to Washington. Moonshines van should be getting out of the shop today which was only half of the battle.
Yesterday was nice being able to rest, watch Inception in the discount theatre for two bucks and hang out with some of the locals into the late hours of the night.
The scenery here in Idaho is refreshing and we really enjoy it, but I'm pretty sure I can speak for all of us and say we want to get back on the road with our fingers crossed asap!






- Dan/D&C

Location:E Parkcenter Blvd,Boise,United States

Tourkey

Tour, were on it. It's been a blast so far minus our van deciding to not shift into reverse or park four days out. On top of that, Moonshines van completely broke down about an hour later and had to get towed to the Plank in Boise.
So were all stuck in a sticky situation at a secret location in Idaho waiting for things to get fixed for our 12 hour drive to Washington tomorrow.
We played last night with a super rad band, they're definitely worth checking out asap: Buster Blue
See you in Washington.

-Dan/D&C

Drivin to Boise

85 all way to Provo

First Spot

Breakfast of champions

Location

See ya Cali

- Dan/D&C

Pilgrim Treehouse Videos

Our buddy Evan put up the sessions we did back in July. Check it out!


Drums and Color - Stay With Me from PilgrimTreehouse on Vimeo.



Drums and Color - Pan Grille Francais from PilgrimTreehouse on Vimeo.



Drums and Color - Light Shed from Pilgrim Treehouse on Vimeo.

Videos

Heres some videos from the show last thursday at DiPiazzas. We played with a touring band called Genius and the Thieves, rad dudes, awesome music, be sure to check them out. 

Show on thursday. Be there or be square, we have some new material to present.

Hmm

Alright, I lied about constantly working on the blog for hours because as soon as i put up the video I immediately went back to facebook lurking. Just kidding. (Not really)
We just got back from our friend Evans house, he showed us the finished videos we did that go along with the Paper Planes video a month back. They turned out super sick, they're going to be posted sooner than later and thats all I can say for that.
As for tomorrow, were playing a little house show in Whittier. 5 bucks to get in. We'll hopefully be playing an "unperformed live" song and its probably one of our favorite songs so far, so if you're interested you should definitely come out. Check our FB for the flier.
-Dan/D&C

Last minute paper planes cover.

More videos soon to come.

Drums and Color - Paper Planes from PilgrimTreehouse on Vimeo.

Lets get things rolling.

What's up everyone, we have decided to start making more media, sharing thoughts, posting lyrics, and want to keep you up to date with special events all in one place. Keep checking back EVERY HOUR for new things because I'm still probably working on more and more things to put on here as you read this.
-Dan/D&C