1999 Falsies/El Secondhand Tour Diary

 1999 Falsies/El Secondhand Tour Diary - Day 1

Day 1 June 11th

We leave for the first day. We thought all the stuff in the van, merch, instruments etc was secure. We were wrong.

The van wasn't even on the highway yet when we came to a short stop and all the distro and merchandise came crashing down on us.

The guys were not sure if I, now buried in tons of records, and instruments was laughing or crying underneath all the rubble. ( I was laughing). 

We had to wait until we found a safe spot to pull over to fix all the stuff that had fallen. 

Although I was fine, part of me was worried this would be one of those situations you hear on the news where people get hit by subway trains and are perfectly fine, but when the train is removed, with nothing there to hold them together, the person dies.

Was it just like that but with records holding me together?

Luckily when the records were removed I was ok.

“No smoking in the van”. Maybe joining this tour wasn't such a great idea, 

We stopped at a gas station, Aaron (singer/guitarist) and I jumped out, quickly lighting up smokes, totally oblivious to pools of gas near us. We didn't care. A nicotine fix was needed, 

We arrived at the first show. The Town is called Gallows Township but it looked like it might as well have been called Deliverance.I didn’t know that New Jersey had country towns like this

Despite the venue being a baseball field/community center, there were plenty of kids there who wanted to have a good time and enjoy some live music. 

Falsies played well overall despite Marc (drummer) breaking his drums during the first song.  

After the show, we meet up with a couple girls that we had met on a previous road trip up to New Jersey. The band would be crashing at the group house they lived at in New Brunswick, NJ before we met up with El Secondhand the next day. 

Now it was about 12 am. None of us had eaten all day and New Brunswick still being 2 ½ miles away, we decided to stop at a diner. 

Since we were all very exhausted we inadvertently made fools of ourselves. Jay (bassist) by accident put cream in his water instead of his coffee and I proceeded to try and light my cigarette with a pack of gum. 

Then it was off to New Brunswick. As we drive off in the van I close my eyes. The next thing Ken (guitarist) is announcing we are there.