Head Trama
Posted January 14, 2006
1/14/06 The Pinkeye Tulsa, OK
We played the Pinkeye in the past and it was really weird. Very small and not a very good building for shows. My contract said capacity was 700. With a capacity that large I was thinking maybe they had changed buildings. When we arrived at the venue I saw it was the same building we had played a year and a half ago. The inside had been changed around a bit but it was still pretty small. We had no idea what to expect from this show.
The show filled up really fast. There were 200 people in about a 100 capacity space. It was great, the crowd was amazing. The stage was so tiny. I had to set my microphone next to the drums (about 2 feet from my face). During the song The Dawning Age I whacked my eye on my mic. Instantly I could feel the warn blood streaming down my face. I could tell this wound was a lot bigger than the one I got last tour. So I played the set with a nauseous dizzy feeling. I had kids yelling you bled for Oklahoma!!! Once our set was done, I went into the bathroom and cleaned myself up. The gash bled for about 2 hours straight. I definitely need stitches. Ill have a nice scar to remember it by, thats for sure. Our friend Nikki came out and hung with us for awhile. She is a sweetheart. Sinai Beach, Oblige, and us all went to Dennys and ate. Its great when you can hang out with the bands you are on tour with. There is a brotherhood that starts to form between bands when you are on tour. I am a little too emotional for my own good sometimes. I get really sad when tours end and I have to say goodbye to the other bands we had spent weeks touring with.
With no place to stay, we got a room at the Comfort Inn.
