So it has been about a month since I last blogged. My band had another successful show! July 4th we held Co-Dependence Day! A show with a local headliner, as it was the 30th birthday of two of the members of Mediocre Minds(MM). Longtime best friends (15ish years) Brandon and Chris have birthdays very close together during the summer. So we celebrated with a Canadian bang!! Local Acousto-comedy-meta-rocker Martin Bodo took the stage to start things off. Love his song about small city, big titties. Martin rocked us and then my band Far From First(FFF) played. We went second that night partly due to being new locals and partly due to the fact that Brandon from MM plays bass in FFF!! This only felt a little strange due to the next two out of town acts being acoustic solo acts and our band being electric. However the next two acts were Jon Creeden of Ottawa Ontario and James Renton of Fire Next Time, of Edmonton Alberta. So the night rocked. Jon is a great singer songwriter and was having a little bit of a rough night after apparently belting out Jesse LeBourdais lyrics with said performer at a show the night previous in Vancouver. However he rocked us none the less! James Renton is beginning some solo stuff as I understand and he came with some originals as well as solo acoustic versions of Fire Next Time songs. Of which I drunkenly belted backing vocals that would have appeared on the Fire Next Time disc I have been rocking in the truck! Mediocre Minds finished off the night with a set composed almost entirely of covers that really inspired Chris and Brandon throughout the years. James was cool enough to send Chris Cresswell a video of MM covering the Flatliners. Apparently got a positive response from the singer of the popular Fat Wreck recording group! Not that it really means a single thing except a cheery head nod for them to smile at in reminisce. I chummed around for a few days reading comics and finding a cool Card game, Boss Monster at one of the local gaming shops. On Tuesday I left for 4 days of camping at a sort of nearby group of lakes down a nearby logging road. Known as the Mackenzie Lakes #1 and #2, I believed I stayed at Lake #2, which is much more swampy, however good fishing. My stay at this remote lake and campsite were only split by the visits to another lake to enjoy leech free swimming and one rip to town to restock my ice and fresh water supplies and record with the band. Aside from that I was enjoying camping during a campfire ban. The bugs were a little bad at night, but the weather was gorgeous during the days. I just swam and hiked and fished in the morning and evening all around cooking on a bbq. I will upload some pictures here for sure, but check out my Instagram for constant updates!
