POZ Road Blog: Beartooth (Update II)

I did a series of Road Blogs for Property Of Zack on our tour with August Burns Red, Bless The Fall, and Defeater. Here's the second installment:

Hey guys back again with another rambling update from our tour with August Burns Red, Blessthefall, and Defeater!

This week has been a weird one for sure. From big to small shows, and birthdays and injured toes. I’m a damn lyricist and you guys had no idea. A lot happened so this might be a lengthy one. But there will be a bunch of photos so you won’t get bored. Or you can just look at those and make up your own story for our past week.

But on the real this week has been insane. We played our first House of Blues date of the tour in Dallas and it was…. well, weird. It was insanely fun don’t get me wrong. The show was incredible and the crowd was gnarly, it was a blast. It was just the most surreal experience for me. Going from playing my first live show ever in January this year, and doing a house show tour to playing at a House of Blues 1,000 miles away from home. And people actually going to watch us specifically. Like I said, surreal.

This was also the show where Caleb’s toenail fell off. Let me retrace a few steps here. I believe it was the first day of tour when Caleb encountered a freak accident where he slammed our trailer door on top of his big toe. After much picking and poking over the next week or so the nail had left this world and moved on to the next and it came off right before we played. I’ll save you the gut-wrenching photo because we do have them. Maybe I’ll pepper it into a later update. This was also the day that we met some nice people who came to the Houston show and brought us a lemur to kick it with before we played. You know like King Julien from Madagascar? Still nothing? Okay here:

Isn’t she adorable? It was a very welcomed pick-me-up for the whole tour package.

We also played in a small room in Austin, TX with our buds in Defeater. It was one of the “Nites” for Fun Fun Fun Fest happening that weekend; basically an after party show. We played after Slayer so you could say we’re just as important or something like that. The show was a blast and at midnight it became our drummer Brandon’s birthday so he pampered himself with this heart attack of a burger from a food truck called Gordough’s around the corner from the venue.

 

That’s a burger with bacon, egg, cheese, cilantro, and guacamole all on a bun made of two donuts. I was literal heaven in food form. But that didn’t end the birthday celebrations. We had an off-day the following day and we drove to El Paso and hit up the quality establishment known as Hometown Buffet. We made a new friend that I’ve come to know as Gary:

And the whole crazy week came to a climatic peak when we had the incredible privilege of catching the last of Blink-182’s string of 10^th Anniversary “Untitled” shows at the Wiltern in Los Angeles. We’re all little fan girls for that band; it playing such a huge part in all of our adolescent musical minds. I remember being nine years old and talking my mom into buying me Enema of the State and having my life changed. It was an epic night to say the least.

Now we start our string of California shows that should give me some more material for this next week but I’ll let you know all about that then. Until then, stay street.