When we last spoke I had just undone my pants, shirt was already off (I never wear shirts), and what seemed to be a long night ahead...shit, wait, that's my other blog-------
The grass is tall, leaves all over the damn yard, the house is a mess, so that can only mean one thing, no, my yard help didn't quit, the Sammies have been from Florida to NYC playing shows. We played Atlanta and Birmingham twice, once in the same night, I had a birthday, Freedom had a birthday, saw lots of good shows, heard lots of good bands, saw lots of nasty bathrooms; it was a trip.
We played Joe College Day at Duke University.
That's us with the headliner Swayze And Cisco Adler. Cisco's Dad was the heat though!
Lots of other good bands too, here's White Rabbits.
We actually played another show at Duke a couple of weeks ago (the timeline is out of order here, but so am I, daylight savings screwed me up), it was Freedom's birthday, so dual purpose party you know?
Freedom's sister made him a cake, pic of cake is somewhere, don't know where, but here is Freedom's lil sis.
Never have played Atlantis in ATL but the kind people at SE Performer invited us to rock their showcase,
...and although we had a show in Birmingham that same night, you gain an hour driving so we played at Star Bar in ATL, packed up, and high-tailed it to B-Ham for a late night at the Nick (the staples in the wall hold the place up, but we love it)!
Got there about midnight, loaded in, cranked it up, and watched the sun come up.
Time to gather some energy...
A few weeks later we went back out. Back to ATL to play at Vinyl with our news friends Hightide Blues. The opener was really good too and surprised us all.
We left ATL that night b/c we had to be in B-Ham at 7:00am to be on Good Day Alabama. We played on the roof and the morning was gorgeous.
The station sits on the tallest hill in Birmingham and gave you a great view of the city.
It kinda made me want to make out.
On we go! OK, we happened upon this band called Casper & the Cookies. We met them originally at the SE Performer showcase, but come to find out were playing with them in B-Ham. It was a great bill, Dressy Bessy, us, and Casper! I only have one pic of that show, and it is Casper, probably b/c we were all drunk by the time Dressy Bessy went on, but they were super nice, and the guitarist was in Apples in Stereo, who we dig. Elephant 6 stand strong!!!
Our next stop was to play with an old friend and his band Deadly Fists of Kung-Fu in Pensacola.
We take the worst pics, we went by lots of cool shit, like the dolphin sign pointing to the beaches of Pensacola. Sorry for the lack of pics, but we're getting better. If the Foo Fighters would hurry up and put us on the road with them we could hone our craft a little more, we just need practice. Or, write your new Congressman and tell him to give the Sammies a grant! We're honest, upstanding, young gentlemen:)
