We’re back on the road this week, opening for the Indigo Girls again.
18 Feb – Wilmington, DE
Grand Opera House
19 Feb – Cleveland, OH
the Agora
21 Feb – Iowa City, IA
Univ of Iowa, Memorial Union (SOLO)
See that big winter storm? The one shutting down the east coast? Yeah, that’s where we’re driving today. We probably won’t try to go up the coast as far as we originally planned tomorrow (DC) and instead will try to get as close as we can before hitting the storm and then stop and hope for better weather Tuesday. This is the first big trip in the new (used) van so everything feels dicey. It’s certainly a trial by ice for the girl, so wish us luck.
Meanwhile, I promised a photo of the van before, but first a little back story… I’ve had the idea in the back of my head for some time about the cartoon alter-ego of our band (called the Get-Go’s). It’d be a typical Hanna-Barbera cartoon from the mid-seventies about a band that gets thrown into another dimension and we have to find our way back home. Of course, the van we travel in becomes anthropomorphic once we’re in the other dimension, that goes without saying, I suppose. Along the way we fight space criminals, help those in need, and in general run in place against a background that keeps repeating. Oh, and rock this strange new universe.
Sure, it’s a joke. But that doesn’t mean we don’t already have a theme song:
Just another band on the road
just trying to make our own way
don’t wanna hurt no one
Then we found some crazy machine
and now it takes us to the
strangest places we’ve ever seen
The Get-Go’s!
The Get-Go’s!
Helping out whoever we can
The Get-Go’s!
The Get-Go’s!
Now the bad guys chasing us
won’t stay far away from us
Will we ever get back home?
Of course, the whole idea was just a vague notion until we found Penny…
Now it all seems so perfect. Look at that paint job!
Anyone here work for Hanna-Barbera?