Wednesday, May 7th
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Temptation Club
w/ Goodmorning Powerheart, Violence & Valentines, The Wickersham Bros.
A few days before the show, Drew had looked up the Temptation Club and found a ghetto-nascar-and-miller myspace page. The pictures were pretty awesome though.
Cut a rug lisa.
The ride towards the Temptation Club was maybe the most fun I had on the whole trip, we were making endless jokes about the situation. "Now which one of you is the "The Spiderman"?" Maybe to hide our fear that the bar would be just like we thought it would be. This was a Wednesday show, and it was one of the last ones we were booking. James found this venue in the indie bible and called them up. He said he heard nascar in the background and talked to an older sounding hillbilly lady. When he asked about setting up a show, the lady said sure, no problem. We should've probably known that a venue without a website that had NASCAR on the tele wasn't going to be a good place to play, but we were tired of booking so we just went with it.
It was all we could have hoped for and nothing more. It was the shadiest place I'd been in a long time. Some guy saw us hanging out at our van and started talking at us.
"What kind of music do y'all play?"
"rock."
"Do you know any Skynyrd covers?"
"no."
They had clean bathrooms though; a few of us emptied out our rotten guts and stunk up the place. Two of the three other bands showed up and kind of felt the same way we did. They were all from Nashville and hadn't been to the venue before. When they saw the place and saw there was no PA, we all decided it wasn't even worth setting up for. If it'd been the second show of the tour, we might have played anyway just to tighten ourselves up. But being the thirteenth or fourteenth show, we had no desire to unload all of our shit and play in front of five people yelling 'skynyrd!' at us.
One of the bands we were supposed to play with, Violence and Valentines, started calling up friends about putting on a house party for us. It didn't end up working out, but they were really nice. They were on the phone with venues in Nashville and house party people for quite a while. They bought a few CDs from us too. I tried to just give them to them, but they gave us money anyway. I would have liked to grab some drinks and go somewhere to hang out with them, but it was time to jet. We were sure we weren't going to play, and we had another long drive to start on.
On the night drive to St. Louis, it hit me that if we drove the van all the way back to KC and took a trailer to the LEMP show, we could save two days on the van rental and we could also get some of the guys back for a Boo and Boo Too show. So we drove through the night, Charlotte to Kansas City, we got back about 9 o'clock. We had the windows cracked in an attempt to dissipate some of the smell that's created when six people live in a van for two weeks.
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