Last night Nashville was a busy city. Rolling into town in our Burgandy van (dubbed Jack Johnson for the "flip-flop wearing good feeling" he/she inspires) we had plans for a sound check, maybe a burrito, Logan was even day-dreaming about spending way too long strolling the isles of the drum store while the rest of us sweated off lbs, in the van.... But before all of this could happen we had to meet some celebrities and watch some car theft happen at the BP. Skip and Timshel dorked out heavy when we pulled up to Grimey's and the Danielson Familiare was packing up after their in-store upstairs . We immediately approached their van and bumbled out something suave and uber-cool like "you guyzes music is , like, SOOOO amazing." He dug it. If you haven't heard their new album "SHIPS", check them out.
And the BP. Nick and Timshel went for a pre-show deodorant run and found more then they were expecting. Suspicions should have risen when we noticed that it was late enough (what?) or shady enough outside for them to lock the front doors and only allow you to request your purchase from a small hole in the plexi-glass to the right of the door. Just about the time that all of these "details" registered Nick heard the lady behind the counter say to a man behind him "That man is stealing your car." Sure enough, the man's blue Toyota truck was being driven out of the parking lot by someone else. It became obvious to us all (most unfortunately to the man in the truck) that the straight shift was a "surprise". The man made it across the main street and even managed to back it up with the owner hanging through the driver window punching his head off before he escaped out the passenger door, paused to wave at the police car and darted for the woods. A helicopter was involved.
Thank you so much to everybody who came out for the Nashville residency shows. You all came out with zeal, filled the room to the seems and rep-rezented, Big Time. We had a great time playing The Basement and look forward to seeing you all again next time we are back in town. We'll keep you posted.