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Fall Tour 2014: Hollywood

THIS SHOW HAPPENED ON OCT 13TH

After a about five hours of sleep, my crazy ass got up early to check out the hotel’s gym haha. I’ve always wanted to hit up an actual gym on tour, but never got the chance, so I’m glad I sacrificed some sleep. The equipment was kinda haggard though which made it difficult. I made it down to the hotel room feelin swoll as fuq and creeped in while everyone was still sleeping. Checkout was at 11am and people started stirring around 10:30 haha. I got a quick shower and packed my bags while Nolan and baby girl had marital arguments. Only married a few hours and already bickering… We checked out of the hotel and drove over to a place called blue skillet for breakfast. It was our last meal with our friends unholy monarch and singularity. We said our goodbyes and thank yous after we ate, and J-fuck gifted us with a butt plug as a parting gift. Haha I’m gonna miss these dudes…

I caught up on some sleep on the way to Hollywood, but I felt pretty carsick most of the way. Probably because I watched a nightmare on elm street on my DVD player haha. About half way through the drive, I switched spots with Sam at a gas station, and drove the rest of the way toward Hollywood. Bad traffic though….. We pulled into a parking lot and sat in the van for a while until we went to lurk down the streets a bit. We walked across the star walk, saw the Capitol records building, and the Hollywood hills sign was barely visible as the sun was setting. When we got back to the venue, this chick tricked me into showing her my ID. I tried walking in and she stopped me. I thought she was an employee, but she was just some random person hanging out haha. We chilled on the patio watching crazy homeless people, grabbed some delicious Popeyes next door, and started to chill with people as more and more came into the venue. We were sharing gear with brain dead tonight, and I was on the house kit. So the show was fun, just a little hard. I had a few stick drops, nolan broke a string, and Sam came unplugged. But what can you do. We rocked as hard as we could and had a good time, and a dude still came and told me it was the best show he’s ever seen.

After the show, I did some gangster ass driving and got the van backed up into an alley in the back of the venue. We packed up real quick and went back inside to catch brain dead. Tonight was actually a great turnout! Thanks Lara Gladstone for setting us up with a show! And thanks to everyone that came out to the show. We left around 1am, and I had to be up at 3:30 to catch my flight at 6:30 haha. So Sam drove us to chino hills to stay with friends and catch up with unholy and singularity while I tried to cram some sleep in the back bed. Next thing I knew, I was up again, getting dressed, and driving another hour to LAX. Sam dropped me off at the terminal, and i said bye to my bros. Now here I am at 30,000 feet, writing this blog, sippin on cranberry juice, heading back to AZ to catch a flight to Orlando at 2pm! Vacation ain’t over yet! I’d like to thank Mike Thomas of unholy monarch for letting me share his kit with him, and the rest of unholy for letting warhead use their cabs. Also, thanks to everyone that fed, housed, and supported us on this tour, and even the ones that got me fucked up the other night haha. Thank you and fuck you ;) And I'd like to give props to David Rodriguez for stepping up and filling in on guitar for us! You killed it man! This tour has been a blast as always and I’ll remember it for a long time. Thanks for reading guys, this is Dane White SIGNING OFF!

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Fall Tour 2014: Las Vegas

THIS SHOW HAPPENED ON OCT 12TH

Woke up in the van this morning with the rest of warhead sleeping next to me haha. It was pretty toasty up in there. I cracked the door open to let some breeze in, and stepped outside as mike and Zakk were just waking up. We started getting ready for the day, and we had a some delicious breakfast burritos! We had a bit before we were leaving for Vegas, so I took the opportunity to get a quick pump, and hang out with J-fuck, Sam, and Adam. All these people together call for serious laughs, and it was hilarious just talking shit and messing around while I got my workout in. I even made an instructional video about tour gains, and Nolan gave me the gayest spot ever. The best part was a car drove by right when we were doing it haha. We packed all of our things, and it was time to say bye to Dalton and his family, and head for Vegas. Thank you guys for housing and feeding us! We appreciate it!

The drive to Vegas was super windy, but we got there in a short amount of time. We passed the Hoover god dam, but I couldn’t see it :( When we rolled into Vegas, things were pretty stressful because everybody just scattered and we had no idea what was happening. Half of us were trying to figure out where to get a hotel for the night while the other half were gambling already. We finally figured it out, and made it to our hotel, the riviera, and got settled in. We had some time to kill, so Nolan and I went down to play some slots! I did pretty good actually! I kept winning free games. A few hours passed, I got some dinner, and headed down to the van to go to the show. The Cheyenne salloon was pretty sweet! Our first actual venue this tour haha. We got everything loaded in to a super tight corner of the venue, and hung out at the bar, played some air hockey, and relaxed. Warhead was on first for our package tonight, and I decided to try out triggers tonight. I’ve played them before, but never live, so I was curious to see how they’d sound. It felt pretty weird because the batter head of the kick drum was so tight, and I’m used to a lot of rebound. But it sounded great, and we played a really tight set! Every band played great tonight, and it’s a shame that it all has to come to an end tomorrow, but we’ve really enjoyed this tour together! After the show, we loaded all the bullshit ass gear into the trailer, and I made sure I had all my personal gear since we’re parting ways with unholy monarch and singularity tomorrow. It was after midnight when we left the venue, and went back to the hotel to RAGE.

THANK GOD. I didn’t get turnt up tonight. Just like I said haha. Sorry Paul. I win. But I played roulette and slots with mike and Nolan and I was actually up for a while! My favorite game was the village people slots! I kept winning the village people party and winning bonus points! But then I started to suck and lose all my money haha. But I had a good time, and I called it a night around 3am. The rest of the guys partied pretty hard as far as I know, crawling back to the hotel room around 7am haha. Lots of marriages took place. Nolan and baby girl got married, And Zakk and sam almost got married, but Zakk realized that sam was a financial obligation and called it off, leaving Sam heartbroken. Las Vegas was killer. We’ve had a blast. Warhead plays in Hollywood next, and unholy and singularity play in Anaheim. Last show of the tour coming up!

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Fall tour 2014: Kingman, AZ

THIS SHOW HAPPENED ON OCT 11TH

Woke up this morning still kinda spinning, but I didn’t feel as nauseous anymore. I woke up inside a beautiful cabin, with the sun shining through 3 huge windows on near the ceiling, exposing a view of the hillside. I crawled out of my sleeping bag as matty from unholy and David were waking up. They asked how I was feeling, but I was more worried about matty, because he slept in an upright easy chair all night that we later found out could recline! Haha. One by one people, people started creeping out of their rooms and hanging out in the living room. It was nice just talking and hanging out, and the cabin’s homeowner made us a delicious breakfast! I felt way better after food and medicine, and it seemed the worst was behind me. Paul is still determined to get me shit faced, but it’s not happening haha. Everyone got clean up a bit, and around 1pm we were packed up and ready to head toward kingman. To the people that let us stay at your cabin, thank you so much!

We made a grocery stop at walmart, and as we were waiting outside the store for everyone to come out, we almost witnessed an old people fight! This old lady was driving and stopped in the crosswalk for no reason. The guys behind her was not havin it, and he started honking. He honked 2 or 3 more times before he rolled down his window and was like “you’re holding up traffic!” The lady responded by opening her door all the way, leaning out and yelled, “shut up!” It was pretty hilarious to watch them go at it. I hope they ran into each other in the prunes aisle and got a chance to duke it out for real! After walmart we went to lynx lake to hang out for a bit, and that was a lot of fun! The weather was so nice, and we skipped rocks and enjoyed the view. This is a really fun tour package. Everyone gets along really well and we have a good time! After an hour or so, if was finally time to start heading toward kingman.

After a long drive, a nice nap, and a meal, we pulled into the fraternal order of the eagles, which is like a veterans community center. We were playing in what looked like the multipurpose room haha, and we started unloading all of our gear into a corner of the room. The lights turned down, and people started filling in! Mike baby girl, Nate from singularity and i had our practice stations set up outside the venue, and had a little warmup session talked drums for a bit. Both are super cool dudes, and insanely talented drummers. I went inside to watch unholy monarch play, and the energy was CRAZY. The crowd was going fucking apeshit and were totally digging the music. Outside the building, I was hanging by my drums again and i met this man, Gary. One of the nicest people I’ve ever met. We talked for a bit and he shared some pretty deep personal stuff, but it was nice talking to him and eventually it was time to warm up and get ready for the show. We started setting up on stage, and got the crowd to come closer and rage with us. The show was fun tonight. Crowd was digging it, but it was one of the sketchiest shows we’ve played in while. We were not locking in and it was almost falling apart until we finally got it together, but it was really hard to hear. After the show, we tore down and mingled with some of the fans, and signed a few shirts. One little kid was repping a warhead shirt, and was running around the venue having a blast haha. I saw Gary again afterwards, and he just gave me a huge hug haha. I know it sounds weird, but I truly enjoy when people are so moved by what we do. Right as the last band was playing, this dude started raging in the pit too hard, and apparently made some nazi signs, and got kicked the fuck out haha. Only problem was he wouldn’t leave. I went outside and he was fighting with one if the employees about being kicked out. Eventually there like 8 people surrounding this guys telling him to leave. Everyone was trying to brawl, but Nolan stepped in and was just telling to the dude to calmly go home. After a ton of talking, he finally left haha. We packed up the trailer, and headed to Dalton’s from oppressor god, and they had pizza and brownies waiting for us! We hung out for a bit, and I was so tired that I went to crash in the van. Today was a good day, and we play Las Vegas next! Get ready!!

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East coast 2014: Albuquerque

THIS SHOW HAPPENED ON MAY 26TH What a day?! Started it off with a killer breakfast at Waffle House right outside our hotel. We had about 4 hours to Albuquerque, so we got all packed up after breakfast and hit the road. I drove a good chunk of the drive, but I think I'm burnt out on driving, so I switched with Sam. It was the first time that i sat in the passenger seat the whole tour Haha. We pulled into the venue in Albuquerque, and there were already a lot of people there! It was another festival style show, with bands playing all day, and we were set to play later in the night. We scoped everything out for a while, watched a few bands, and reconnected with some old friends we made the last time we were here. There was a sonic down the road, so that's where we had our lunch, And we had a great server who was shredding on his skates! We also got approached by a lot of homeless people though, many of them "vets," who probably saw an opportunity to score this Memorial Day. After lunch we just hung out most of the day, shooting the shit and relaxing. We started getting to work around 8, getting all of our gear ready to load in. Nolan found one of my broken sticks, and asked me if he could throw it. I should never have allowed this, but I thought what the hell go for it. Well this numb nut throws the stick right at my tom and puts a big dent in the head... I just looked at him and said, really?? I have all this on film by the way. Luckily the head was old and it already had a little split in it, but I knew something like that was going to happen haha. But he was very apologetic, and it could have been worse I suppose! Anyways, we got all our stuff into a tiny room outside the stage and i started warming up for the last show! The show tonight was incredible, but we had some pretty big technical problems that waited till the last night of tour to happen. Right out of the gate, my snare head breaks... I haven't broken a head in at least a year, so I wasn't expecting it. Luckily it cracked on the side, so I was still able to get some tone out of it, but it was definitely weaker, and I had so much more to play, including a drum solo. But still I just kept going as hard as I could as always, and it worked out fine, until my china fell off the stage, hitting Cody's amp, and triggering it off. This happened right in the middle of bent on destruction, and to kill the awkward silence, ANOTHER drum solo was in order. So I played as much as I could while Nolan and Cody were trying to fix the problem. I played some tasty shit at first, but no one seemed to dig that haha, so I went a little crazy with double bass and that always gets people excited haha. But I was running out of ideas and they still hadn't fixed it.. So I went into "hot for teacher" and they got it fixed finally! After that, the set went pretty normal, it was just the stress of making it through in one piece that lingered. But our crowd was killer tonight! I was looking forward to this show. I knew we'd have a great response here, just like the last time! Last notes of the show, and then we were outside mingling with fans and talking about the craziness of our set. It was great talking to older fans who liked the show so much more than the first time, and meeting new fans that saw us for the first time tonight! This tour has been absolutely incredible, and warhead is so thankful for all the experiences that we've had on this 5 week trek of the country. 5 weeks. That's a big notch on our belt, and It's only gonna get better from here. It's very bittersweet to know that it's all over now....UNTIL THE NEXT TIME! Thank you Albuquerque for raging like you always do, and thanks to everyone that has supported us on our journey, with homes and food and merch and your energy at our shows. I'd also like to thank everyone that has kept up with my blog this whole time. I didn't expect to get this much positive response so thank you! This will be my last entry for a while, but we're planning to hit the road again in September, so I'll start the blog again on that tour! Also, I'll be in the studio at the end of June with some new drum videos, so stay tuned for that! This is Dane White signing off.. HOMEWARD BOUND!