Friday night, I went to Clifton after picking my friend Dan (Wacko for all the board peps) from the greyhound station. Kelly and I went to Murphy’s Pub with Brad and some others. It was fun, but we ended up staying a lot longer than I wanted to. Oh well, I was still able to get a good amount of sleep. So on Saturday, we went to my house and I packed up all my stuff for the road trip to Nashville. We had 11 people there: Me, Kelly, Ryan Fighty, Liam, Dan, Bob Tangus, Jenn Swoothie, Matt Milafalo and his roommate Matt, and then we met up with EJ and Danielle in Nashville. The trip down was easy and went by fast at 90 mph, until we hit the damn traffic. We sat in bumper to bumper traffic for over an hour. In that time, we managed to play a little football, see wacko fall while trying to catch a pass and rip his jeans, toss a tennis ball at each others cars, have some fun with people honking horns (especially the bus), and bump some 2Pac. We met up with the BAMA folks down at the venue, where we immediately picked up some tickets and talked to Marc for a bit. Then we went to the hotel, and soon learned that they screwed up and didn’t have my reservation in their computer. The lady working the desk was really nice and ending up hooking us up with one regular room and a suite for the price I was quoted at. We brought down a bottle of Jagermeister and Captains, and then bought 3 18 packs of Natty and 6 New Castles. So we got all checked in and I ended up paying 12 bucks for some valet guy to park my car. My one complaint about nashville, not enough parking. Then the fun began, Liam, Ryan and I pounded our New Castles along with the Jager. Then it was Natty time. Fighty and I did a little jamming, until he broke one of EJ’s guitar strings. We did manage to get a pretty good “In My Life” -> “Poker.” I also sang my version of “Faith” for everyone even without any music to help me along. So after a bunch of drinking, we manage to get everyone that was left in the rooms onto the street for the walk to the venue. Of course we had some fun walking to the place. Wacko was stealing flags from cars, and checking out the hot dog stand. :) We picked up some random guy named Scott on the side of the street and convinced him to go to the show. He used my pass to get in, and I still got it back! So we get in and listen to Llama some, drink a bunch more, and pass my cowboy hat all around to everyone, then the OAR show started. I was having a blast dancing around, talking to every and any girl I could find. Kelly didn’t like that too much, I think she was a little jealous but I made it up to her. I remember seeing Fighty sitting on a bar stool passed out for a little bit. I saw Wacko for most of the show, I think he was following me around taking pictures most of the time. I think I almost lost my hat to about 10 different girls, but somehow I still have that thing. The board was having a great time at the back of the place, dancing around like a bunch of fools. I remember hearing Marc thanking us for coming out, and saying something about coming down front. I can’t do that though, cause I need lots of space to dance. :) The show was a bunch of fun, and the crowd seemed to really enjoy it. After the show, I talked with the guys for a bit, and mentioned something about a broken guitar string on EJ’s guitar, and how we couldn’t play anymore. Rich tried to hook me up with a string, but it was the wrong one, so next thing I know Marc passed me a whole set. I don’t know much about guitars and all that, but I guess they are really nice strings. Thanks guys! We went out back where everyone was just hanging around. Wacko and the Matts stole the pumpkins that Llama had out there, but Joel soon busted one of them over Liam’s head. We were having a good time hanging out, but EJ and I soon realized that we wanted to go to the hillbilly bars. The girls were off somewhere so we just left with some of the others. Along this trip on the streets Dan and I try to steal a sign, but we almost got caught so I blamed it all on Dan and ran away. EJ and I hit up this place that was supposed to be the best bar in town. The only thing that I though was good, was the fiddle player in the band there. She was hot too! I remember hearing “Sweet Home Alabama” and EJ was actually singing along to it. That band finished up so we went into some other bar, where Pabst was the beer of choice. We had some of those and listened to another country band, complete with a stand up bass and a steel guitar. I ended up with a drumstick from that band, not sure how though. So all the bars close and we make our way back to the hotel. Along the way I was hitting that drum stick on anything I could find. The scaffolding I was playing towards the end was really cool, but then Kelly showed up and drug us back to the hotel. Kelly somehow managed to order some pizza, and I still have no clue the name of the place. We ate that drank a few more and passed out. Oh yeah but before passing out, I had to kick Liam’s drunk ass and try and push him under the sink. Somehow we also managed to break an ironing board. The trip ended very well though, and it was a ton of fun. Check out some of Dan’s pics, there are almost 300 of them. He took like 600 total, so I guess that isn’t that bad. Here’s a link.