wow...thats all I can say about the past few days events.
So, the band had 3 shows to play this weekend first show being in columbus, GA. We started out on the road yesterday about 5pm. The following is a transcript of the events that have happend since then.
We get to the venue, take in all of our stuff, set up for the show because we're the first band to play. We get everything together and start doing sound checks and the sound system goes out....
So, 2 hours later, we figure out that we blew the speakers, so we ghetto rigged guitar amps to be used as speakers. In the mean time while we were figuring out everything, the cops showed up because kids were running around in the streets and people called the cops. I totally support them coming out, because I respect the law and everything. So..the sound system works, and we start to play....
We get almost through with our set and the guy running the show comes up and tells us to stop playing. Apparently the kids were still running around in the street and the cops got called again. So the show is getting shut down. So the cops come in and start telling people to leave and have a really bad attitute telling everyone if they dont leave right now they are going to jail. So, people are leaving but a lot of people didnt really know what was going on because there was a lot of people there, and were standing around. The cops start to arrest kids because they aren't leaving or moving fast enough claiming they were having disordly conduct...
So, our bassist is standing next to one of the kids who is getting arrested and looks at the cops and says that they are being rediculus, and the cops threatens to arrest him and he turns and starts to walk towards the to pack up his stuff and the cop grabs him and arrests him for "inciting a riot". Several other kids get arrested, one being a kid saying he was going to call the local news paper and report what was going on because the cops were being rediculus. So the cops arrested him for also, "inciting a riot". Another little black kid who was only 13 gets arrested also because he was sitting ont he curb waiting on his ride and the cop pushed him into a poll after demanind him to leave and the kid starts to resist the cop and two cops come up and throw him on the ground and the shove him into the car. He was a little scrawny kid, it didn't need to take two cops, they were way out of bounds.
So..we finish packing up and a few of us go to the jail and me and damien go to his grandparents house down the street to see if they can help us because his grandad knows some cops. So, we get a bonds man to come down to the court house and get jeff out, and then leave to go stay at damiens mom's house which was about an hour away.
We get to his mom's house and the house is....interesting. Its a really old house and there is no running water so if we have to use the bathroom, we have to go outside, including if we had to poop. oh yeah, there was no toilet paper also. During this time, jeff (drummer) was messing around farted and accidently pooped in his pants. We all thought that was awesome. After this we all go to sleep.
We wake up and leave early because we have a long drive ahead of us to florida. So we're driving to pensecola florida and jay's car (we've had to use two cars to tour around because we have no van yet) needs gas, so we get to a gas station and the station is out og gas due to the hurricane, and so we try to find a gas station and we have no luck, so jays car runs of out gas. Jeff and I continue on in hopes of finding a gas station with gas.
We stop and this one gas station, that also doens't have gas, and I go in to use the restroom. I go in and walk up to the bathroom and go in and someone comes up behind me and waits. I go in but the door wont lock, the guy behind me says it doens't lock so I go in thinking he'll watch the door for me. So, I go in and start pooping, doing my buisness. After a minute or two, that guy walks in to the bathroom, saying he has to pee and can't wait. There is a stand up stall next to the toilet, but its a one person bathroom. So i'm sitting there, pooping and the guy comes up ranting about how he can't wait to pee and has to pee now. So me and him and there, i'm pooping, he's peeing and he starts trying to have a conversation with me asking me where im from. I simply respond that i'm in a band from out of town and hope that he leaves soon. He leaves and I quickly finish and we leave the gas station.
We finally find one place, but they have to gas cans so I fill up my car because I was almost out also. We continue on to try and find a gas can and a gas station that has gas. and hour later, we find a walmart that has gas station that still has gas. We go into the walmart, but they are sold out of gas cans. So we by flower watering pots and duck tape them shut and the go wait in line to get gas (the line was about 30 minutes long). so we have gas now and we head back to get them.
Finally we get on the road again, and we try and go to the house that we're staying at and the directions we have are partly wrong, so we drive around, with jay barely having any gas. We spot a gas station that has gas but a long time. Jay stays there to get gas and we continue on the house. We finally get there, jay gets gas, and they come to the house.
Finally we are all here, and we're about to go to the show. Hopefully nothing crazy happens tonight, we have a show tomorrow two and them we drive home. Hopefully nothing bad happens, but if it does, God will take car of us, he has so far.
But yeah, thats my story.
We get to the venue, take in all of our stuff, set up for the show because we're the first band to play. We get everything together and start doing sound checks and the sound system goes out....
So, 2 hours later, we figure out that we blew the speakers, so we ghetto rigged guitar amps to be used as speakers. In the mean time while we were figuring out everything, the cops showed up because kids were running around in the streets and people called the cops. I totally support them coming out, because I respect the law and everything. So..the sound system works, and we start to play....
We get almost through with our set and the guy running the show comes up and tells us to stop playing. Apparently the kids were still running around in the street and the cops got called again. So the show is getting shut down. So the cops come in and start telling people to leave and have a really bad attitute telling everyone if they dont leave right now they are going to jail. So, people are leaving but a lot of people didnt really know what was going on because there was a lot of people there, and were standing around. The cops start to arrest kids because they aren't leaving or moving fast enough claiming they were having disordly conduct...
So, our bassist is standing next to one of the kids who is getting arrested and looks at the cops and says that they are being rediculus, and the cops threatens to arrest him and he turns and starts to walk towards the to pack up his stuff and the cop grabs him and arrests him for "inciting a riot". Several other kids get arrested, one being a kid saying he was going to call the local news paper and report what was going on because the cops were being rediculus. So the cops arrested him for also, "inciting a riot". Another little black kid who was only 13 gets arrested also because he was sitting ont he curb waiting on his ride and the cop pushed him into a poll after demanind him to leave and the kid starts to resist the cop and two cops come up and throw him on the ground and the shove him into the car. He was a little scrawny kid, it didn't need to take two cops, they were way out of bounds.
So..we finish packing up and a few of us go to the jail and me and damien go to his grandparents house down the street to see if they can help us because his grandad knows some cops. So, we get a bonds man to come down to the court house and get jeff out, and then leave to go stay at damiens mom's house which was about an hour away.
We get to his mom's house and the house is....interesting. Its a really old house and there is no running water so if we have to use the bathroom, we have to go outside, including if we had to poop. oh yeah, there was no toilet paper also. During this time, jeff (drummer) was messing around farted and accidently pooped in his pants. We all thought that was awesome. After this we all go to sleep.
We wake up and leave early because we have a long drive ahead of us to florida. So we're driving to pensecola florida and jay's car (we've had to use two cars to tour around because we have no van yet) needs gas, so we get to a gas station and the station is out og gas due to the hurricane, and so we try to find a gas station and we have no luck, so jays car runs of out gas. Jeff and I continue on in hopes of finding a gas station with gas.
We stop and this one gas station, that also doens't have gas, and I go in to use the restroom. I go in and walk up to the bathroom and go in and someone comes up behind me and waits. I go in but the door wont lock, the guy behind me says it doens't lock so I go in thinking he'll watch the door for me. So, I go in and start pooping, doing my buisness. After a minute or two, that guy walks in to the bathroom, saying he has to pee and can't wait. There is a stand up stall next to the toilet, but its a one person bathroom. So i'm sitting there, pooping and the guy comes up ranting about how he can't wait to pee and has to pee now. So me and him and there, i'm pooping, he's peeing and he starts trying to have a conversation with me asking me where im from. I simply respond that i'm in a band from out of town and hope that he leaves soon. He leaves and I quickly finish and we leave the gas station.
We finally find one place, but they have to gas cans so I fill up my car because I was almost out also. We continue on to try and find a gas can and a gas station that has gas. and hour later, we find a walmart that has gas station that still has gas. We go into the walmart, but they are sold out of gas cans. So we by flower watering pots and duck tape them shut and the go wait in line to get gas (the line was about 30 minutes long). so we have gas now and we head back to get them.
Finally we get on the road again, and we try and go to the house that we're staying at and the directions we have are partly wrong, so we drive around, with jay barely having any gas. We spot a gas station that has gas but a long time. Jay stays there to get gas and we continue on the house. We finally get there, jay gets gas, and they come to the house.
Finally we are all here, and we're about to go to the show. Hopefully nothing crazy happens tonight, we have a show tomorrow two and them we drive home. Hopefully nothing bad happens, but if it does, God will take car of us, he has so far.
But yeah, thats my story.