We're all taking a bit of a break, working jobs around home, writing some more tunes, and gearing up for tour again which starts January 4th in the Denver area. There will be a show in Boulder, CO on Halloween night with 3OH!3 and some others which should be a great time. Other than that, no other shows until tour kickoff.
This next year is going to be bad ass and we hope to see as many of you as possible while on the road in 08'. Send us messages, pictures, videos, links to blogs, money, girls phone numbers, and anything you think might help us make these next few months interesting.
Holla.
-Da Gale
You can find pics from tour by clicking here
06.01.07
i woke up after a roller coaster night with Elroy out on the town at her house. We lounged around for a while and played with the puppy and then headed out to meet the boys. Graham, Joel and Nate picked me up at a little deli on Pearl st., I said my goodbye to Elroy and we shipped out to Denver.
We got to the venue earlier than everyone (we are always way too early or really late, yet to find the balance.) and loaded in and got a pretty good sound check. The dudes at The Life Spot have always been pretty awesome to us so we got handled everything we needed to and decided to go to the sports bar around the corner.
The show was awesome, attendance was pretty good and we did a cobraconda set of two songs that went pretty well. At this point the show was over and i had to go all the way back to pearl st. in boulder to pick up our merch that had just finished being printed. Chelsea drove me and gave me a pack of cigarettes and then drove me all the way back down to denver. She dropped me off at Britt's and then we all crashed there. However, Nate and Joel were currently driving Nate's car overnight to Nebraska. How the hell did they stay up?
-Spencer
I will start by saying this is a dream come true...waking up in some swank house in big ass bed. I walk down stairs and begin my day with some o.j. and a couple of bagels....then scramble with graham and nate to get everything in order so we can get this shit off the ground...or on the road...finally getting to lifespot to backline and play my first big show with these guys.....show went really well except for me being hella nervous.....that was the only criticism i received for the evening...shortly after the show nate and myself head out for nebraska.....long story short....NOT THE BEST IDEA EVER......we made it however....and slept all hard....
-jo weezy.
Waking up to Graham watching ATL in a set of boxer shorts is the best thing ever. Joel, Graham, and I hightail it to the licensing office in Greeley to get plates for the new van. Way to go us, waiting till the last possible moment to get shit handled. After waiting in line for like 10 minutes, we figure out we're about 175 dollars short on paying for the plates. Luckily, some cute dreadlock chick at the local 7-Eleven lets us do like 15 pieces of Laffy Taffy in separate transactions to get 10 dollars cash back until we meet the amount. Plates are on, we're finally set. We head back to Boulder and pick up the trailer and my car.
We all meet at The Lifespot and start backlining shit for the show. A pretty good turnout, kids got down pretty hard. A great kickoff for tour.
Afterwards, Joel and I hop in my car for an 8 hour drive to Nebraska to sleep at my mom's until we have to head to Omaha. Delirious as fuck the whole way, messed up on a couple of different things. Had to pull over and sleep at some random gas station after not being able to navigate out of some weird town off the interstate that apparently had a McDonalds that didn't exist. I ate so much Runza.
-Nate
06.02.07
I woke up to sweet sweet kisses form the Silky puppy and we were on the road to Omaha by 7ish. We hung out and talked a lot on the drive. It's always kinda like that the first day i noticed, everyone is bubbling cause they're leaving. It's a strange energy, there are always mixed feelings about the time you're gone from your loves, friends and families.
The venue is called The Rock and it's in a town outside of Omaha called Pappillion. We played with a couple other bands that i didn't get to hear because i was in the parking lot drinking, watching the dog and some drunk chick stumble around and make a fool out of self. It was awesome.
The show was fun just because the stage there is so big, you actually get to move around and rock out. Did Cobraconda again, you can't touch the snake! Loaded out after the set and headed over to Nate's sister's house.
She had a big Grace Gale logo painted on the wall and it was cool and all but it kinda wierded me out. We were taking it easy and getting some drinks in us with Some of Courtney's friends when half the town filed into the garage. I took a few shots of absinthe and ended up casually vomiting into the a garbage can 10 feet away from Nebraska bros getting pumped. The cops showed up pretty quick. Graham and I went and talked to them and ended up being friends with one of the police men. He looked like that fat bald guy on Mad TV and he was telling us how stun guns make you wet your pants. His partner was getting mad all of us because of the breech of the power structure. It was pretty entertaining. I didn't sleep this night.
-Spencer
waking up not all together there yet in some new dark place in nebraska...its horrible weather outside and nates mom is getting us rounded up to go to the show which i more than thirty minutes away.....nate of course eats runza for the second time that day...eeewwww...we arrive at the show and load in has already gone down...i make a quick walk through and say whats up to my mates...then return to the van to close my tired eyes for a little while longer.....i slather vics vapor rub on my chest and and lay down in the back of the van until its almost time to play.....talk to the wifey back home in alabama...just as i realize an old friend from birmingham, alabama has just arrived...feels good to see a "HOME" boy.....big ups for the support ty.b......the show is smooth as eggs and cobra conda starts the set off right....we play mostly new songs which in turn get a really good response....and that stokes the fire and kinda gets us all hype on the new shit as well.....we retire for the evening and wait for the new day and the long drive....these dudes are fucking crazy....gotta love em like brothers though....sleep....."HE LOOK WAKE BUT THAT MUFUCKAS SLEEP!"
-jojodancer...
Woke up after like 3 hours of sleep. What a drag. Stopped in Fremont, NE and the Gale Mom hooked it up with a sweet power inverter so we can watch tv and charge shit in the van.
Arrived at The Rock in Papillion just in time for load in. My sister was already there along with 5 or 6 of her friends. One of them was so drunk that she could barely keep her blouse on, falling over on the ground and further proving her intelligence by talking about how wasted she was the whole time.
Met the dudes from Traceback, pretty sweet guys. I didn't catch the first act at all and they took off right after they played so I don't think I even talked to any of them.
There were a lot of kids that couldn't make it for some reason. It was a great show anyways on a huge stage.
We stayed at my sisters house and got completely obliterated. A lot of people were there out of nowhere that none of us knew at all. The cops ended up showing up due to my sisters jerk neighbors. Girls fucking freak out when cops knock on their doors in Lincoln, they're running around and turning lights off. Brooke's boyfriend acting like a faggot and trying to tell us to leave the lights off like we're 16 year old kids trying to hide. Told him to kick rocks and he peaced out. Spencer and Graham bro-ed down with the cops all hard so they didn't give my sis a ticket this time. I got about 30 minutes of sleep, woke up drunk, hopped in the van and started driving to Chicago. I almost shit myself a couple of times on the way which is not tight. Whiskey, Absinthe, and dried apples are not good for you in combination.
-Nate
06.03.07
6:30 ish in the morning we get back on the road towards chicago, Joel and i had just taken our last shots of whiskey for the evening morning....whatever. It was not very long in the van before i was completely passed out. I slept almost all the way to chicago or i don't remember it, either way i wasn't there.
We we're playing in Orland Park on he south west side of the city, at a coffee shop/venue called Mojoe's. We have played here a few times before and it always has been pretty awesome. When i got there Troy and Spenny were already lurking the lot and we chilled out and smoked.
There were some cool bands this night, some rock and roll from St. Louis area i think... not sure though. They were Whisper Wall and Harvey, they gave me some beers.
The show was ass kicking as usual and then i broke my skateboard and then we slept in the venue parking lot.
-Spencer
orland park outside of chicago sneaks up on me and i wake to being sore
-jojodancer...
Arrived in Orland Park, IL at Mojoes. It was a good 3 or 4 hours before the show so I took the time to pretend to sleep. Joel and I both tired as hell. Hung out with some sweet dudes/dudettes that are usually at the shows we play there(Troy, Spencer, and some others) . Tight show, kids really seemed to dig the new material which stoked us. Two words, shirtless encore. Spencer ollied my suitcase and broke his skateboard.
We were supposed to stay at the "Ass Omelet" house but somehow that fell through. After posting hella bulletins trying to find a place and talking to some 17 year old tranny about how we weren't comfortable with staying at "her" house, we just decided to find a shady place to park the van and sleep for the night. Spencer says it was a gay dude and not a tranny. Ate some IHOP with Spencer and Rex, watched some Aqua Teen, and passed the fuck out.
-Nate
06.04.07
day off. Woke up in the parking lot, ran around and took care of some business and headed towards the city. I hadn't ever spent more then about one day in the actual city of Chicago so i was looking forward to it plus, we we're goin to meet up with a lot of my old buddies from Boulder. Slayer Matt (putrid), Millhausen, Truelson and Winston all live at the house we stayed at. I hadn't seen Winston in about 6
years, so it was really nice to kick it for a minute. We got a bunch or beers and then went out for a quick drink at a bar called the Green Eye and then an after hours bar. On the walk home, we hit up a 24 hr mexican place that was really good and there was some guy in a jacket with all the teams' logos from the negro league on it and he was calling us gay in spanish to the woman working. Sometimes I love knowing another language decently.
I fell asleep to sylvester stallone.
-Spencer
Day off. Hung out in the Mojoes parking lot, played some bass fishin', wrote some new tunes on the laptops. Spencer got in touch with some of his homies in Chicago(Chris, Kris, Putrid, and Winston)that said we could stay for the night. Headed up there, loaded in our stuff, bought some beer, and took some showers.
We go out to the Green Eye bar in Logan Square, most of us are already drunk from the two 30 packs from earlier. After a couple of shots/beers, Rex and I head with Winston to some 24 hour Mexican restaurant for some grub. Stared at some hot jewish chick ass for a few minutes. Spencer, Graham, Joel, Kris, and Chris head out into the night. Apparently, they ended up at a bar where Joel ate some meat-heads burrito off the bar. Needless to say he was pissed but Joel denied any connection to the disappearing burrito. Spencer fell down the stairs outside of Putrid's house and didn't get hurt somehow. Rex and I slept in some abandoned apartment just upstairs with Silky.
-Nate
06.05.07
Milwaukee, huh? I'll try it on. I wish we had gotten to see more of the city than the legion hall we played at. At least they had a bar downstairs and some kids watched us play. They also had nice grass for the puppy to run around in and get her thing going.
We drove back to Chicago that night to crash at our friend Jules's house. That's the ass omelet house (if you haven't heard about that consider yourself lucky).
It was nice, she has a nice place. Got a few beers and then took a shower and passed out on the floor.
-Spencer
Woke up to Rex rustling around through shit as usual, Silky jumping on my face and trying to eat my sleeping bag. Went outside to have a smoke. Some fat chick kept stoking my neck and saying it was "Fuckin Raw".
What the hell is it with these fake ass malls?
Headed to Milwaukee and stopped in some random ass suburb so Graham could get another bathroom bag since the one Rex gave him was a piece of shit.
-Nate
06.06.07
This night we were supposed to play in Michigan but we got caught in a lot of shitty traffic and a few bands dropped off the bill, so we cancelled. We went to venue anyways because we were trying to find a place to stay, it was another cafe. They had a pool table and good coffee so we killed a couple of hours there on the internet and decided to head to label house that night.
We drove from Michigan to the Creep house in Downingtown, PA. I stayed up with Joel until about 4:30 or 5 am and then our shift was up so we crashed in the back of the van.
-Spencer
06.07.07
I woke up a sweaty mess in the back of the van in front of Arik's/the Creep house. He and some of our boys were on the front porch shooting some business shit and Graham already had a beer cracked. We loaded into the studio and wrote a sweet new song. Finished up and maxed out then passed out.
-Spencer
06.08.07
We had to play outside of Pittsburgh this night so we had to drive a while. On the drive Joel and I finished writing one our electronic songs for the new c.d.. I am really happy with it.
The town is called charleroi, PA and we we're playing club octane. The show surprisingly ended up having a great turn out despite the afternoon thunder storms and intense heat. When we showed up in town everyone got subway sandwiches and i was super bummed out because of my current fiscal inability to purchase a sandwich and then guess what? They had subway for me at the show so it all worked out.
We stayed at another band dudes house with them and his mom. She fed us gave us beer and smoked a lot of pot. It was funny as hell. Their band was called the story of five white antlers. hmmmm. what else, ... SIlky played with their doggies until she irritated them.
-Spencer
06.09.07
We played at the Champion Ship outside of Harrisburg, PA. I forget that every city on the east coast is ACTUALLY a city. Out west things are a lil smaller in the city sense. The show was really good for our first time there, i was surprised to see a lot of people out. There were two lil guys from Denver who had moved out there who came to the show. they were cool....
When we played i had diarrhea of the mouth and was spouting some rediculous shit about the Hard Rock cafe being cruelty free.
Good night.
-Spencer
06.14.07
We'll be posting more soon, we've been busy recording. Here's a video.
Extreme Dog Walking
06.18.07
A new video!!!!!
