So the April tour with our BFF's from Concord California Wake The Machines was incredible. Finally getting around to updating everything. Jimmy fractured his knee at the first show. Boone almost took a punch in the face by a masked drunkard after Weylin apparently flashed his balls to him. Jeff came close to killing a LOT of pedestrians and had hilarious road rage driving with the trailer. Overall it was a great time and went extremely well for our first time out. Here's a most likely incomplete list of thanks and hails from what little memory is accessible:
PORTLAND: Megaton Haus, Sloths, Sei Hexe, Antikythera, Blackarm, Lunge and everyone at the Bathhouse (special thanks to Matt Lunge for not losing Jeffs bass and donating a bunch of rad shirts), Honduran, Jason Dinges and Brick Shithouse kids for the consistantly top-notch hospitality, Courtney and Jonno, Brian and Ila, Dooger and Molly, all our pdx friend-o's and everyone that came out to the shows. As always Portland was a blast.
ASHLAND/WILLIAMS: Warmonger dudes for setting up the show and their general radness, James, Claire, and Nic AKA Black Mould for their surprise set that completely killed, everyone that came out and partied, this was by far one of the best times we've ever had. Can't wait to come back and do it again!
ARCATA: The Big Tree, Nick and Maria for putting on such a killer show and opening their home to us, Macula and They Came at Dawn (both bands destroyed!), John, Colin for going off old school Sandy Eggo style, all the kids that came out and showed us a great time. Arcata fucking rules!
OAKLAND: The Womansion, MRSA, Buried At Birth, Eric and the DHC kids, all the junkies slumped against the wall, random others. Gonna go ahead and lump in all the Concord kids we hung out with and came out to the show, and Emily for the book.
EUGENE: Brandon and Saviorself for setting up the show and playing a killer set, Opossum Head (absolutely amazing), Black Mould chippies for coming up for the show, everyone at Aminatas, Eugene punkers do it right! Thanks for goin off and making the last night of the tour amazing.
Also thanks to Jared and Corey for a very last minute/late night place to crash.
I'm sure there are people we're forgetting. Every show was great and getting to play with Wake the Machines each night was awesome. Thanks to Scott for the tour tattoos, Weylin for bein sexy, and George for takin pics. Somehow our first tour managed to not be a disaster. Also the tour split is still available on cd-r and some tapes should still be around if you missed out. Four songs from each band available from us, WTM, or Amputape.
Go to http://www.morose.us/ for tour pics and all around information on what the fuck we're up to. If you happened to take any pics or video of any of the shows email them to amputape@yahoo.com.
We hopefully will be doing some dates in August or September with Arcata maniacs MACULA and we're slated to play August 20th in Eugene for a two day fest that's in the works. We'll post any details as soon as we get them.
