SoN @ State Bridge Lodge
Posted: 26 August 2006 at 14:54:41
Right now, we're in the Durango traveling to Grand Junction for our second show of this run through Colorado. Last night's show at the State Bridge Lodge near Bond, CO went very well. Unfortunately, we didn't get an audio recording of the FloydShow set, but we did get a very nice recording of the Sons Of Nothing original set.
It began to rain about half way through the FloydShow set and I was the roof of the restaurant/bar across from the stage where I set up my laptop. I had to scramble and get under cover when it started to sprinkle. It only rained for about five to ten minutes, so not too disruptive. I love how all the hard work of the visual effects is done by lumen and lumen stays safe on stage. It continued to crank out great video and projections while I was picking up all my stuff and moving to the deck where I could have some protection from the rain.
There was a brief power outage before the show. We were inside the restaurat having some dinner at the time. Matt left after the power came back on to get his keyboard rig set up again. I noticed a game machine on the bar was booting up and it was clear it was just PC hardware because some very familiar BIOS POST messages were being shown on the screen. I snickered expecting to see some kind of "Starting Windows" message come up, but the next time I looked, the right side of the screen had green "[OK]" lines down it. Holy cow! I thought. It's running Linux! Cool!
A couple pictures from the show:
That second picture shows some of the new video I put together for the Sons Of Nothing original tune "Positively Evil."
More pictures can be seen here.
After the show, Juli, Matt, Thom, and I went to our cabin and pretty much crashed for the evening. They gave us a log cabin that had seven twin beds in it, two of which were in a loft. Thom and I took those two and had the ceiling about 6-10 inches above our heads. Tim (and his girlfriend Amanda) had a yurt by themselves. Daryn had a bed with us, but he stayed out for a while partying with some of the enthusiastic fans that had come to the show.
This morning, I found out most of the group didn't get much sleep. Thom, Juli, and Matt were either kept awake or constantly awakened by noise from passing trains (State Bridge Lodge is right next to a Union Pacific rail) or people outside and next door partying, which is where Daryn was.
I guess I'm lucky I can just pop my hearing aids out.
We're going to get some rest in Grand Junction before loading in for tonight's show.