July 3, 2007
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Shilpa doesn’t know…..
The wheels are moving underneath me and we are making our way towards the third date on warped tour. If all goes well we will wake up in Mountain View, CA. My first night on the bus was fairly uneventful. I banged my head about twenty times but the bed itself is surprisingly comfortable. I woke up and drank some tea to heal my ailing throat and got stoked for another day, slightly less hot than the day before. Our booth was set up near the main stages today so it was pretty loud but I could almost see New Found Glory and Bad Religion if I squinted. When not touring with the truth or working on some bad reality t.v. show I book shows for bands. One of these bands I worked with in college was a pop punk band from Florida called Inspection 12. Pete from Inspection 12 went on to join Yellowcard who are on this years tour and I was able to track him down today and catch up.Like I said yesterday it’s always exciting to see people you know doing well and people defiantly love his band. Jared Leto also descended upon warped tour to watch Circa Survive and mingle among throngs of oogling pre-teens.
The venue today was also right across from a beach so at the end of the day with about forty minutes to bus call I headed to check it out with Melissa from Fuse and some of her crew. We all had to be back on the bus by 11 p.m. so we only had a few minutes to enjoy the waves. The beach was pretty rocky and the waves would pull the rocks out over other rocks and the result was a sound exactly like thunder. Those sort of times spent hanging out are among my favorite part of the tour experience.
The incredible thing about touring is you just go to bed and wake up in a totally new place. The thing that remains the same throughout the cities is this incredible community of interesting people we are traveling with and the fact that I never really know if we are going to get a chance to shower before the bus leaves.
I’d call day two a success.
Locals Only,
TaRa
P.S. Shilpa doesn’t know who Jared Leto is.
