Shows. #37,#38,#39,#40,#41

Gunna be a long post here...

Show #37 (White Claw Tuesday)

Finnigans in Scranton PA

8/13/2019

A. Parker

King Strange & Lighting Luke

This show was a great start to a little run I was going to to make. I saw that these guys were coming around and they were nice enough to let me hop on the show. Even for a show on a Tuesday night in Scranton there were a decent amount of people there. Everyone was wicked nice and I had a great time playing solo again. I really enjoy playing solo. I ended up staying In a dingy motel next to the finest crack heads that Scranton had to offer.

On the way to Pittsburgh we stopped at the abandoned Turnpike in PA, it was pretty awesome. The abandoned tunnels gave off the best Reverb/ Echos iv ever heard. I wanna go back and shoot a video.

Show #38. (Home made Tacos)

8/14/2019

Bark Street House Show

A. Parker & The Backroad Drifters

Johnny Honest & The Fucking Liars

Man its always great to see our buddy Bryan and he's always a great host. THis was the first run of the tour, and Bryan was nice enough to try and get something together for us, even though. he had to leave at 5am for work the next morning. It was a low key show but I was needed to dust off the cobwebs. Johnny Honest & The Fucking Liars were great, a two piece folky band. Everyone was great and need to get back to Pittsburgh soon.

Headed from PA to MI we stopped in Kalamazoo MI to go to Bells Brewing Co., along with Kalamazoo being the place where Bells is. Its the Birthplace of Gibson Guitars and it just so happened that my guitar was one of the guitars that came out of the original factory. SO I had to go to that place, just think 76 years ago in 1948 my guitar was made there and it was in the same place it started.

Show #39 (Rounds on Spike)

8/15/2019

Mulligans Pub in Grand Rapids MI.

Tallon Weatherby Band

Chase Engle & The Night Shift

A. Parker & The Backroad Drifters

First time I have ever played Grand Rapids before. Mulligans is a great bar with a really good Rock & Roll Atmosphere, big bar area, pool tables, stickers and dollar bills hanging everywhere. Great sound system. Chase Engle & The Night Shifts were a costume wearing, synced dance move gyrating, rock & roll cover band from the area. They had their moves and music down, it was pretty cool to. watch. All in all they were solid guys who liked to. play. The Tallon Weatherby band were good guys/gal and really ripped up the stage as well. There is where we had the pleasure of meeting Spike, a Grand Rapids native who had good friends, good taste in music, and better stories. Seemed like a solid guy and him and his are always welcome in Easter PA if they need a place.

Grand Rapids to Detroit, this was a pretty short drive, only about 3 hours, we stopped in Lansing MI for food and got to stop in at the Everly Guitar store. Some guy was bringing in an 1880 Martin Parlor guitar in the original coffin case, it was wicked cool to see. We also ate this awesome BBQ place called MEAT. Heading through Detroit we stopped on 8 Mile road and pretend we were Em. Before the show we went to Third Man Records and Founders Brewery for some grub and beer. There I watched pretty girls make pottery and I got to get one of the little vases they made. (which suffered some damage on the way home)

Show #40

The Old Miami in Detroit MI.

VAZUM

A. Parker & The Backroad Drifters

DUDE

The Old Miami is a great fucking place, awesome stage super nice bartenders, in and outside. And just a good overall feel to the place. Opening the show was a band called DUDE they were a great Rock & Roll band from the area. Tony who sang and played bass/Fender Rhodes was a great dude super talented he played bass the same way Ray Manzarek did in The Doors by playing an old Fender Rhodes keyboard. Sound awesome. VAZUM was a synth pop goth band, they were really good as well and sounded awesome. The Old Miami pumped all the music through the sound system outside so whom ever was outside could hear the band.

Between Detroit and our final stop of the tour Medina OH. We stopped and Pacos in Toledo and get some hot dogs, they didn't ask us the sign a bun..... We swung by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland OH. Pretty cool place and The Zombies were playing outside so there was a large amount of people there. RRHoF has a really awesome thing that if you are in a band and on tour you get in for free, all you have to do is show them a tour poster. So since the RRHoF cost nothing to us it was great to w

alk around all of the exhibits going on at the time. We even played two songs in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's little Garage thing. I mean how often are you going to get to play there. We finished it up with a trip to Southern Tier Brewery up the road and then headed to Medina.

Show #41 (Granger 9)

Granger Danger 9 in Medina OH.

O*J*C*D

Hillbilly Varmints

Public Squares

Slack Jawed Yokels

A. Parker & The Backroad Drifiters

Ok to this is pretty much OH version of Lester Fest, big party once a year with a bunch of great bands and really nice people, food, and booze. The host Pete and Sugar, along with everyone else, was celebrating Sugars 50th bday, you would have a hard time trying to tell me that "Shug" was 50, she didn't look a day over 35 (thing there is something in the water) "Shug" is a bass player, a bad ass bass player. I know she was in The Whiskey Daredevils but I thing she is in another band as well. Pete her husband is a solid guy as well, all in all they are a bad ass couple who like to party and show people a good time. We got there little late and the band was playing good old country rock & roll, it was a relief to hear some music that goes right along with us. The Public Squares were a new wave punk band that dawned red shirts and wrap around sunglasses, they were awesome and man I would love to have them play around us. The next was The Slack Jawed Yokels who had Jimbo the upright bass player/ sound guy for the event and man did they rip off the stage with rockabilly/punk vibes. Music had to be over at midnight so we ripped through our songs and I thing we strummed the last chord at 12 on the dot. We finished up the rest of the night with beer and good people. Pete and Super were nice enough to let us sleep in their finished basement. Would like to come back to Granger Danger 10.

The next day we woke up, stopped at a Waffle House and drove the straight 6 hours home. Thanks everyone who came out to shows, did sound, bought merch, bought us whiskey and beers. Thanks Bill and Ira for playing drums and Bass on this run and Bill for setting up the shows.

Till next time....