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Oakland, California – 03/25/09 – The Stork Club

JanSport — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:00:00 +0000

Open Letter…

JanSport — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:24:24 +0000

Dear ubiquitous roadside franchised eating establishments of the United States,
Could you please provide touring bands with food that won’t cause their stomachs to do cartwheels?
How about some coffee brewed sometime in the last decade?
Some salad made from actual vegetables that isn’t doused in plastic cheese?
Water that doesn’t taste like chlorine?

Your employees are all such great characters, how about letting them serve something edible?

Yours respectfully,
The Dashing Suns.

Are we there yet?

JanSport — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:04:25 +0000

Survey says no.

Whoa…

JanSport — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:19:32 +0000

Jeffrey sent us this link from the comfort of his workplace…
Buzzworthy.mtv.com
Seems like somebody named Daniel really likes us! This was a great piece of encouraging news for all of us, especially us Dashers that are sweating in a filthy van on the desert roads of highway 10! Where are we? No clue. Probably New Mexico or Arizona, hard to tell really, deserts just look like a bunch of boring dust and some vegetation that is a little too brown to be considered beautiful. Today is an epic drive, from El Paso to Los Angeles, 12 or 13 or 14 hours. Phew.
At least when we get there we have some fun planned, our buddy Bart Davenport and his band are playing the Silverlake lounge and have graciously agreed to let us in for free which is great because we spent all of our money in Texas.
We saw a great show last night entirely by accident, due to some native Texan insider knowledge we ended up at a venue in El Paso only to discover that Oakland’s very own and very mysterious bunny mask clad rocker Nobunny was playing and it was fantastic.
More later…
P.S, we’d like to give a shout out to a nice chap named Steve Munn, we haven’t met him yet but he’s been following our adventures the whole time. Hi Steve! We’ll change our shirts before we come say hi, we promise.

Hello/Goodbye

JanSport — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:40:26 +0000

Phew.
We are on our way back to Oakland.
David left us last night on a shiny ol’
Airplane, it’s back to work for that dawg. We just dropped Jeffrey off in San Antonio where he is about to hop on a different shiny ol’ airplane, back to work for him too.
That leaves three of us… Kev, Matt and our boy Tyler who shall be dropped off in Los Angeles. It would be nice to relax and take a nice scenic route home but, alas, we shall be spending untold hours on barren highway 10. We have a show on Wednesday night in Oakland and have to drive like madmen to get there on time. This wouldn’t be nearly so bad if it weren’t for Kevin and Matts ridiculous decision to not change their shirts for the entire tour, this has not helped the vans odor problem in the slightest. Hopefully we won’t have to eat at the ghostly diner which we happened upon on our way here, if we do we shall certainly not be ordering the fried okra again or even the coffee which tasted like it was carelessy brewed in 1929 and filtered through a cowboys old underwear.
Goodbye to Austin and all the nice folks we met there. We’ll miss ya a bunch.

Just a week ago!

JanSport — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:10:10 +0000

The first night of The Dashing Suns SXSW tour @ The Bordello

Fresh air and the end of SXSW

JanSport — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:58:21 +0000

We played outside of Tyler’s on Sunday in Austin. We thought about playing a loud electric show, but our newly tested acoustic set seemed more apt for the sidewalk venue. This was probably our first outdoor show… ever! We had such a good time doing it that we can’t wait to play out next outdoor show. We also really enjoyed playing our acoustic set again, it is growing on us the way mold grows in our van. We even made a fan!

After our early afternoon set we went for a little ride in the Jansport van. The backseat was awesome and it had an open roof top (like a sun roof kinda). Scott drove us around Austin and we gave shirts and CDs to whoever wanted them and even those that didn’t want them.

The end of our ride in the van spectacle also marked the end of SXSW 09 for The Dashing Suns. Tomorrow we roll back across deserts, mountains and miles of asphalt to Oakland, CA.

Readymade Wrapped

JanSport — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:53:16 +0000

The Halcyon show was great! Two months of anxious practices went a long way in the end. Scott from Readymade gave us a nice little intro and we did our thing. The set was the perfect length of time and Kevin’s endearing banter filled the moments in time when we were not playing. The crowd was solid and they seemed to enjoy the show. People picked up free shirts and collected free CDs and we got to live our little dream for a few minutes. We are fairly certain that it couldn’t have gone better.

Meet The Dashing Suns

JanSport — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:05:20 +0000

Austin, TX – 03/22/09 – Tylers – The Dashing Suns

JanSport — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000