Ottawa, ON, Zaphod Beeblebrox 04/02/07

The next morning we crossed the boarder in NY, after receiving a tip from the Radio Bean's barrista. The bus, seen here, is resting comfortably in between an adult video store and dance studio. Welcome to Canada! We liked the Zaphod Beeblebrox reference even if the bill for the evening was insane.







We made it to Ottawa early enough to catch up on our correspondences, see some of the beautiful capital city and meet some of those super nice people we kept hearing about.

Burlington, VT, the Radio Bean, 04/01/07

On our way to the Red Bean we drove through the enchanted woods of the White Mountain National Forest, a.k.a, the whites, and had to stop for a photo opot. Fresh Fresh Fresh clean air.

In Burlington, we arrived at the Radio Bean coffeehouse, bastion of the independent. Just a block from Church Street at Pearl and North Winooski. One of the most friendly, ecclectic and wonderfully unassuming places in the eastern United States. After our show the owner, Smokey Joe, a.k.a., Lee, talked to the crowd in a hip hop fashion using his harmonica and spoken word to start a series of impromptu poetic musings





Don is not in the bus outside one of the Great Lakes, alas Lake Champlain wasn't given that distinction, but fuck it they have a Monsters!

Boston, the Basement 3/31/07

On our fourth trip to Boston we were reunited with one of our most favorite artists, B.J. Snowden, who falls somewhere in between Sun Ra, Stevie Wonder and that happy lounge music a la Vince Guaraldi's Peanuts music. It was amazing to see how the audience gravitated towards her and found themselves uncontrollably doing the Snoopy Dance. As a dear friend, she will be coming to Atlanta, ASAP.

Chapel Hill, the Reservoir Bar 3/29/07

Chapel Hill was a great start, we played with Beloved Binge and Red Collar, and then had our bus painted by a local artist, Brian Buchanan
who formerly hailed from our old hometown Athens, Ga. He worked on it all night and when we woke we were a little surprised. The bus has been turning heads and ensuing laughter ever since. Thanks to the Reservoir Bar for having us!



Also, Chapel Hill has another label than Merge..... called Trekky Records and we plan to do a Christmas album with them after our summer Tour Bus Drag Race, as they too veggie diesel it up.
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