We are back from tour with a boatload of dumb stories and a lot less money than we had two weeks ago. And since I know that you know that everyone needs to know what happened, I decided to write a tour diary and publish it in daily installments corresponding to days on tour (clever, huh?). So here's day one, enjoy.....

Part I - April 19th 2002 - New York City - The Luna Lounge

Our rock and roll odyssey began well, with everyone in high spirits and excited to bring the noise to the people. So we got in the van full of optimism and coffee and headed out on Massachusetts Route 90. In all of this enthusiasm, someone, Jordan I think, suggested getting out our new cd and popping it in the stereo for some singing along and a general feeling of self satisfaction. Good idea, right? Wrong. This proved disastrous. Very disastrous.

Due to some errors we made in the recording and post-production, it sounded as if Fooled By April had become a twenty nine piece band, with 25 members playing triangle or hissing loudly. Not good.

But, we being the enterprising fellows we are, we set to the task of making new cd’s from our original masters. Four cranky ass hours later we were in NYC with some quality goods ("merch" as they say in the industry).

The show itself was a study of ups and downs. The ups: all our NYC people came out which is always great, we rocked like a hurricane for a good while, I resolved many emotional issues with people I hadn’t seen in years and no one got drunk enough to be belligerent. The downs: we did not rock like a hurricane on a couple numbers, I nearly fell off stage and ended up grabbing my amp for dear life, subsequently knocking ice water into its electronics and shorting it out for the last two songs of the set, and no one got hammered enough to be belligerent.

All in all a good beginning.

Tomorrow - D.C.!!!!