BRAVE Tour Journal
Tour Journal - Cincinnati, Ohio, June 18, 2003
Journal entry by Trevor
After playing Sudsy Malone's in Cincinnati a few times, we have the routine down, so getting in and out of town was really smooth…we even got a parking space in front of the club instead of in the crime ridden lot behind the joint. Sudsy's is a Laundromat slash bar slash rock and roll hall all in one giant room…very unusual, but also very practical! Play music, do laundry and get drunk…talk about 21st century multi-tasking!!!
Last time we were there, some kids were spray painting profane graffiti all over the place and breaking into cars. Whenever we went back there they dropped the can of spray paint and sprinted into a dark alley. Though, they didn't notice us watching them at one point rifling through a white Honda.
So, we fortunately were able to avoid the lot this go around. I just remembered the first time we went to this club…I walked in the back door and a guy was cleaning his bloody stump where his hand once was in a laundry sink in the back! Must have recently had it amputated or something…
After that show, a homeless guy, or a guy that appeared to be homeless, staggered up to Suvo, and shook his hand congratulating him on a show well done, and slipped a little surprise into Suvo's hand, which turned out to be a portion of hash…Suvo promptly discarded in the nearest trash…we laughed for a good long time on that one!
Anyway, this time was much less eventful! We were fortunate to play with an old friend's band called Estuary, fronted by Zdenka, a good friend from Virginia who moved out to Ohio a year or so ago. They are an excellent melodic death metal band, and I am not just saying this because we are friends…the are very, very good! Check them out!
Chris Lee ran sound for us, and everything sounded really nice! There were about 15 people at the show and we got paid $50. Suvo was not at this show, nor at the next, due to an exam he had to take in Quantum Mechanics at University of Maryland (not kidding). We will pick him up in Indianapolis prior to the South Bend show.
We got a free case of Budweiser which we absconded with to the hotel, but after a few sips of the swill, we decided not to continue down the road to a certain headache and sick feeling. You know, the label on a Budweiser bottle actually says something like "we know of no other beer with such fine ingredients, so painstakingly brewed, blah, blah, blah…" The guys at Bud must live at the Budweiser convent with no other contact with the real world, because if they even got a whiff of another beer, they would realize that their prized brew is nothing more than crappy river water…
More about the lovely hotel stay…we don't get in until 3 am or so, so we use every bit of hotel stay time to sleep, i.e. wake up just before checkout and roll. The sign in the hotel room said "checkout 12 pm." So, at 10:30 a.m. the maid comes strolling into the room, all of us sound asleep, 'do not disturb' sign on the door. Then while we are getting ready an hour later she came into the room again, an event which Ben quickly responded to by calling the front desk and bitching at them quite well! Thanks, Ben! He's good at handling those kinds of situations really well…its better to have him on your team than on the other!
Onto Muncie, Indiana…Ball State University!
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