The Numbers
Originally published at The Null Device Blog. You can comment here or there.
Interesting and useful statistics from the 2010 Fading Belief tour:
- 9 days
- 9 shows
- 2700 miles
- 7 states
- $16.31 in PURE PROFIT
- The 3 best band members I could ask for
- The 4 best band members in another band I could ask to be travelling with
- 5 homes opened to us for post-show flopping
- 1 hotel room that smelled vaguely like a handi-wipe
- 15 hours of solid driving home
- 20 harrowing minutes in western Baltimore
- 5 hours average sleep per night.
- 21 tshirts moved
- 51 CDs moved
- 13 tanks of gas
- $411 in fuel
- 3 hairs in Jill’s Waffle House lunch
- 1 Bob Evans breakfast
- 27 new dents to our keyboard stand
- 2 new 9v batteries for the violin
- 72 bottles of water
- 2lbs of beef jerky
- 1 purchase of a Naseer Shamma album, which due to spotty data connections in rural PA, took me 5 hours to download
- 5 demonstrations of how to work CheetahDave’s coffeemaker
- 3 overtakings from behind of the TDC van
- 8oz of organic baba ganoush, randomly found in central Maryland
- Approximately six million juvenile sexual innuendo, scatological jokes and “That’s what she said”s
- 24oz of awful 7-11 coffee
- 10 pancakes hand-made by Jim Semonik
- 3 incidents where my snoring kept Jill awake
- 24 chaal beats
- 1 Strawberry pie from Eat-n-Park