march on the peninsula

Well, the Spenardcore Collective's recent maneuvers on the Kenai Peninsula were a great success. Stubby's Crack Co., Fats Tunamelt, Wang Gang, and los Gran Torinos' relentless missionary work made many converts to Spenardcore's round church ("so the devil can't corner me" -OD) in Seward and Homer. On St. Pat's day, los Gran Torinos played their first show to a crowd well over 100 at the Yukon Bar in Seward. Drinks (yes, this included Jameson rocks!!) for band members were $1. We were payed $200 to play--that's 200 drinks, folks!!! Best St. Pat's ever. The Homer show was great as well. Standing room only at Amped Cafe. We must have sold about 20 Spenardcore Records t-shirts and we ran out of torinos stickers.

big ups to:

*Bjorn and Amy for letting us crash at their cabin in Moose Pass playing fiddle, guitar, washboards, etc around the fire until the wee hours of the morning, cooking up a badass vegan breakfast, and then traveling to Homer to catch our last show.

*Chris in Homer for taking all 20 or so of us (he only knew one of us) back to his dome. Yeah, dome. It has one section that is all windows facing out across Kachemak Bay. The windows are configured in such a way that you feel like you're looking out of the Millenium Falcon. Chris served us up stuffed french toast, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn bread and good strong coffee in the a.m. and his neighbor came by and rolled about 8 cones. Damn fine people!!!

I still haven't fully recovered. At some point, I'll get a few stories from the trip up here. Just don't have it in me now.

rough outline:
4 bands, 4 days, 3 shows, 5 rigs, several fifths, a few friends, a coupla ounces, countless beers . . .

dogs:
Monkey, Survey, Rizzo, Lilith, Scout, Noah, Esa

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In other news, I'm really digging 'too much love' by Harlan T Bobo right now.

Here's a video of Harlan aiding Tim Prudehomme in a clown-clad version of Tim's song "George W Hitler."