The Green Monster Nearly R.I.P.

Hello good peoples.

Here's a nice pic we took yesterday in San Fran to offset the bad news forthcoming:


Beautiful eh? Thats just California. Probably the most beautiful state in the entire country and perhaps the world.

So, Yesterday we made it over to San Fransisco and the transmission on the van started to seriously fall apart. Went up a hill in the Muir Woods and an ugly sound echoed through the car that made our collective hearts sink and or total cash earnings thus far dissapear ($1300 and then some). We made the show in Redwood City and then got back in the car and limped it to L.A. around 7am this morning. Made it safely to our friend Steve's house (of beware of safety). He hooked us up with an amazing generous mechanic in West L.A. around 9am that is, as we speak, tearing the transmission out of the mighty beast and putting in a new one he found at a junkyard. Should be done by 10am tommorow which means we can hit up the UCLA radio interview and the show without a problem which is a huge relief.

We had to take our gear out of the back and throw in one of their corners at the shop. Here's a pic!


This all means we had to bail out of our ultimate favorite drive we planned on doing today on the highway 1 which runs down the california coast. This drive is sacred and this time we cant make it. We also had a sweet dinner set up for us at our friend Rachel's house in Santa Barbara that we have to bail on. We'll have revenge next tour for sure and it'll be that much better.

Other than this current setback things are going well. The whole northwest weekend in Seattle/Portland was one of the all time best era's of any tour we've ever done. Everything about it was incredible. Go to iamserio.us and you can download both the Seattle and Portland sets. BoS came out and helped us drum out the end of the new song. 6 drummers on stage slammin away. Brian Connolly made it happen with the recordings, again, and he remains the man.

We'll have a story or two to share after our L.A. weekend Im sure so stay posted. Lots happening in this city after all. Hope you all are doing well. Talk soon.

ALSO - we got new tshirts today so merchandise is back on track.

~Caspian.