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[sadie]

in the van on the way up to richmond yesterday, ted was reading some stuff he'd printed out from the internet about marketing bands. this piece in particular was about moving into a regional phase, rather than just keeping it local. it's normal to feel a bit let-down, the article said, when you're used to screaming hometown fans and go to another city to find either no one shows up or the few that do don't really get into it. it's tough breaking into a new city.

at the time, i was like, well, we won't have such a let-down, then, 'cause it's not exactly like we have the screaming fans to begin with--even in our hometown. but the night turned out so well we had screaming fans in the big city! we were supposed to stop at 1am, but we ended up playing encores until about twenty after. the bar staff were cool, giving us great service (and a sweet deal on jack for me :P) and totally enjoying our music.

this local promoter guy came up and played a good blues harp on "born under a bad sign," and sang and played a different version of "knockin' on heaven's door." he said he's interested in getting us in on some of his shows, so that could be profitable.

we hung out with jacob's friends in the fan until about 4am, and i finally crashed on the futon around 6. by 10am, i was up and we were headed to the waffle house. then it was a few hours back home to real life.