11/6/2007 (Tuesday)

Deaner's Tour Diary

The past few days have been a blur. I'm still sort of foggy trying to distinguish what happened on which night. We rolled into San Diego the other day and I went out and had a good meal at the Liars Club/bar with my friend Lenny. We then spent about 5 hours hanging around the San Diego House of Blues, which is located like 4 stories underground. As far as HOBs go, I actually really liked this one. It was small, it held like 1200 people tops, and we sold it out. Really a perfect sized venue with a great view from the stage. We totally rocked the living shit outta that place I think but it's all pretty fuzzy at this point. We then drove overnight to Ventura and stayed at a beautiful hotel right on the water. This was our second time at the "Majestic" Ventura Theater. If you're ever in Ventura, there's a killer restaurant right up the street from the club that advertises itself as "Peruvian Thai food" and that's where I ate. It was so good that I wanted to stand up and start singing. There's these two old grandmothers that cook the food, one is Peruvian and one is Thai. Their daughters serve the food and they are beautiful beyond belief. There were very concerned with the quality of our meal and came out and spoke with us about it. Amazing. Anyway, the Ventura show was the one I've been waiting for since this tour began--when fatigue, frustration, and a small crowd all collide on the same night and all hell breaks loose. I can't remember exactly all of the details, but the night ended with a 40 minute medley of The Little Drummer Boy, the Little Drummer Boy pt. 2 (which we wrote on the spot), Fiesta, Third Stone From the Sun, Fiesta reprise, Superstar (the Carpenters), and some other hellish feedback jams and bad free jazz during the Mollusk. I don't know if the crowd enjoyed it as much as I did, but I reserve the right to get drunk and make a mess every now and then. Chris Harford is living out here these days so he's been with us the past couple shows. Now I'm sitting in L.A. on our day off, looking forward to getting another good meal tonight and meeting up with some friends. Oh, and Fender sent me a new guitar today that's sort of modelled after my red Stratocaster so I'm psyched to try it out at tomorrow's gig.