TAG: Super Bowl

Feb09

On the Road with Kenan Bell, continued

Feb 7, 2010
Day 3 Part 1
10:46 am
There is a bittersweet taste in my mouth today. We are leaving Joe’s compound this afternoon headed south for better weather and to play some music in Louisville, KY. I’m so grateful for how he took us under his wing and made us all feel like part of the family even though only Jason is a blood relative. That is probably the best part of tour: the love shown by family and friends across the country. Whether it was sharing a meal with Danny’s sister and her family in Las Vegas or visiting Milk’s Grandma outside of Des Moines, the people that we come in contact with on a daily basis really make it all well worth it. As Cousin Joe began setting up for his Super Bowl party by slicing bell peppers and arranging his vegetable platter, I was just opening my eyes and peeking out the window, only to be blinded by the glare of the fresh powder.

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Feb08

On the Road with Kenan Bell

Tour diary from last weekend 

Feb 6, 2010
Day 2 Part 1
11:51 am

Wow, what a night! Cousin Joey sprung for a few hotel rooms in Columbus so we didn’t have to trek all the way back to Dayton. Before sleeping, he made sure to feed us as he had the concierge place an $80 order of Italian food that was delivered just before 5 am. After the gluttony, Matt (bassist/tour manager) and I retired to our room to recap the day and go over our accounting. I just recently upgraded our touring vehicle from my Ford Explorer to a nine passenger van, but since we bought the van the day before the tour, we didn’t have the luxury of having a mechanic look at it before driving across country. We haven’t experienced too many problems aside from having to replace the battery in Cali, change out the windshield wiper fluid in Colorado and replace the starter in Pennsylvania. Keeping things interesting, the valet needed to jump start the van this morning at the hotel so we immediately took it to a local mechanic for inspection. Something was up with the anti-lock brake system so homeboy dismantled it which made us feel that much more like ice truckers trudging through the frozen tundra.

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