timblane's Journal

Breakfast at Timmy B's
It was a fun week and a half of touring at the end of Feb. Johnny D’s was a great time as always. My favorite part was playing the funk classic “Pass the Peas” with our horn section taking sweet solos. Then we brought the opening band, our buddies Pie Boys Flat, back up on stage for renditions of “You can’t always get what you want” and “Dixie Chicken.”
If anyone has photos of us all on stage, please email them to me!

James and I headed to Waynesburg College in SW Pennsylvania, where we met a couple, Matt and Michelle, that had just gotten married and used “Drifting and Driving” as their wedding song. So they got up and slow danced to it while we played, which was extra great considering they were wearing workout clothes.

We also hit up IOTA in Virginia, opening for Deep Blue Something. You might remember them from their big hit in the 90’s "Breakfast at Tiffany’s." So that was pretty cool/weird. You could see the place perk up when they played that one. Say what you want about one hit wonders…all I know is that they showed up in a GIGANTIC tour bus. So obviously residual checks are still coming in strong.
Though it was pretty hilarious when, after they played the hit song, one drunk girl said too loudly to another, “THAT’S weird. They just covered Vertical Horizon.”
Awkward.

Anyway, while in DC, James and I did the downtown mall thing, which is always fun. It’s weird that I grew up in DC but didn’t do the cheesy tourist stuff much. I guess it’s kind of like now living in Boston and I’ve never walked the Freedom Trail. But I digress.
We spent most of the afternoon at the Natural History museum seeing the dinosaurs and stuffed modern animals.
Below is James getting eaten by a dinosaur. He got out ok.

Also, maybe I’m just childish, but couldn’t they have made this drawing look a little less like there’s some dinosaur sexy time going on?

On Friday we hit up the Cutting Room in NYC. Let’s just say that a night isn’t going to plan when you get bumped by a famous sock puppet. That’s right, Lamp Chop was in town for a benefit. Shown here with her handler, a ventriloquist and dummy, and for some reason, Janet from Three’s Company.

The benefit was supposed to go until about 9 or 9:15, then my friend Erik was gonna play, then we were supposed to play at around 10:45. Well I guess the Chop got on a roll and did several encores, cause we didn’t get to start playing until almost 1am. Thanks to those of you who stuck around- my apologies for the lateness. And for those of you who left- I totally understand. We’ll be back to NYC in May, so please come back. ☺

Finally, we headed up to Loon Mountain for WBOS’s “Music on the Mountain” series.
It was a fantastic weekend there, despite the fact that because of the huge snowstorm we had to leave after the NYC show and drive through the night to New Hampshire. But we managed to play a couple sets on no sleep, and they set us up in a sweet lodge for the weekend.
And clearly I was going by my alias “Tim Blain” Bunyan. Sad that I’ll never be as big as my brother Paul.

They also hooked us up with lift tix and snowboard rentals, so James and I hit the mountain on Sunday. I’ve been a couple times, so I can at least get down the mountain. James has never skied or snowboarded. So, while I didn’t have a camera there, let’s just assume this image is him…

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