" Jared Mees Tour Diary" Archive
Jared Mees: The Road Home (Pocatello, ID to PDX)
1 CommentPosted on Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Coming down the last big stretch of hills before PDX just outside La Grande. James Brown is running like a dream. As long as Nicholas can just lay off the brakes on this section of downhill, I dare say we are in the clear. He is pushing 70 which is the fastest this thing should [...]
Jared Mees: Bee Stings and Butt Pirates (Mccall, ID)
1 CommentPosted on Monday, July 20th, 2009
On the way to Sun Valley last night the 5th bee in 3 days mysteriously appeared in the van. This one was somehow in 2 pieces but the ass end still managed to sting Megan S. She screamed bloody murder and I almost ran off the road it startled me so badly. We realized that [...]
Jared Mees: Knowing This is the Closest I Will Probably Ever Come to War (Moscow and Sandpoint, ID & Spokane, WA)
1 CommentPosted on Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
I will be honest.
And in doing so I will tell you that I cannot truly be honest…the things that have transpired over the last 72 hours are highly blogworthy and the juicy details would be fun to read about and probably somewhat soothing to write about but would in the end it would be [...]
Jared Mees: I Hereby Dub Them the Coolest Jehovah’s Witnesses Ever! (Ukiah, CA and Seattle/Olympia, WA)
1 CommentPosted on Monday, July 13th, 2009
Sick from fried chicken and Red Bull yesterday and have quarantined myself in the “masturbatoriam” (the back back Frankenstein seat in our van). Reading Stephen King and David Foster Wallace. Josiah and Megan C are driving and listening to Frank Zappa and Jonny Cash. We are on the way to Moscow, Idaho to play a [...]
Jared Mees: The Best Kind of American (Long Beach, CA)
1 CommentPosted on Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
There are only a few ways to describe the chaos that was Long Beach, CA on July 3rd. The first is to write “watch this video.”
The second is to write about my childhood friend Todd Henry and his cousin Ryan who passed a hat amongst the 100 or so people at the El [...]
Jared Mees: Pray for James Brown (Los Angeles, CA)
1 CommentPosted on Monday, July 6th, 2009
Los Angeles was my home from 2000 to 2005. Like it or not, it will be my home tonight.
James brown has decided that we should not go to our show in San Diego but rather hang out in the parking lot of “Super European Automotive” here in Nniversal City. We need a carburetor rebuild [...]
Jared Mees: Either A or B (San Francisco, CA)
2 CommentsPosted on Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
You know its gonna be one of those nights when you approach the bar to find your bandmates trading in both of their drink tickets at once for a Long Island iced tea (which are generally much more long island than iced tea). Needless to say that by 8:30 pm last night at the Hemlock [...]
Jared Mees: I’m at the Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell (Ashland, OR and Northern CA)
1 CommentPosted on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
“I’m at the pizza hut, I’m at the taco bell. I’m at the combination pizza hut and taco bell.”
So I am a severe allergy sufferer. Most of my last 4 tours (as well as the majority of the intervening time in PDX) have been spent sneezing and sniffling and gargling saltwater in a vain attempt [...]
Jared Mees and The Grown Children: This Is How We Do It In Fresno (Merced, CA)
1 CommentPosted on Thursday, July 31st, 2008
“This Is How We Do It In Fresno” – BKF
Jordan Dykstra reports:
We played in Merced, CA at the venue called The Partisan. The vibe was wooden on the outside and very mellow on the in. We got burritos across the street and then Sean and I walked for about half an hour to find some [...]
Jared Mees And The Grown Children: This Is Not Punk Rock, and That’s Okay (La Grande, OR)
1 CommentPosted on Friday, July 25th, 2008
Jared is reading Our Band Could Be Your Life, by Michael Azerrad, and our tour has started as the complete opposite of the dirty, yet romantic, touring punk bands from the ’80s (as mentioned in OBCBYL). Now, we’re in no way making a ton of money (if any), but we’ve been treated with utmost kindness [...]
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