Now let’s see... We bought the Chevy and gave up our one bedroom apartment in Oakland and started our tour in May or June of 89. I recall it was quite a party we through when we left. It seems we started a tradition in San Diego of completely trashing the house we lived in when we embarked on an adventure of unknown length. It was a symbolic act of destruction so we could be “reborn”, so to speak, in our new life (O.K. Maybe I’m reading to much into it, but it does seem poetic). I believe the highlight was Tommy stapling butter to the wall – the low point was Stacie getting served papers months latter at a show at the Starry Plough. I still feel bad about your resulting credit rating.
So as I said earlier, after WOW hall we decided to keep going – and did we ever. Show after show up and down the West Coast. Robert Finn kept up busy, playing every coffee shop, bar, festival, college campus, farmer’s market, you name it. These were the days of being completely broke. We survived on Taco Bell, eating what we called the Singer/Songwriter Special, 1 Bean and cheese burrito ($.59) and one tostada ($.59) and split a small soda between the 6 of us. After a show, we would buy Wiedemens Beer ($2.99 a 12 pack at Safeway) and a couple packs of smokes - not Camels of Marlborough, we settled on Viceroys as the cheap brand of choice. After eight months of touring, Jenny Nedrow got us a party in Davis CA, a campus show at UC Davis at noon on the Quad, and this show KDVS. She bought a carton of smokes (Marlborough Lites, the good ones) and kept the fridge filled with beer – we were in heaven. For the next 12 months, we would keep on the road, playing town to town and start recording High Fidelity Hare Cuts without any jobs or homes. Like I say, Rock ‘n Roll is a young man’s sport.
Live at KDVS, UC Davis, CA 2/08/90
Patrick
Where We Are
The Fish
Full of Love
Waiting
Crossfire
Home of the Free
Radio
Tragedy-Where’s the Weed
