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Larry
 Nov 21, 06 - 10:21 AM |
Romania Mailer - Our Romanian Tour!
We are now back from Romania...miss us? Romania kicked ass. By the end, we had 5 shows (we had 7 booked but 2 got ****ed up....hey it's touring), got to see Bran Castle and Castle Hunedoara, and made friends and fans across the country of Romania. Thanks goes out to Loudrage who we toured with and who set up us coming there, and Petrut Alin who was our tour manager for 4 of the dates. We brought over 100 cds and 36 t'shirts, and sold it all. The fans loved us and Loudrage and we loved them. I'm not going to lie, so much happened over there it will be hard to put in an email. It would likely read like a novel with chapters…. But that won't stop me. Day 1 Wednesday Oct 25th Airport: Me, Jeff and Ria drove down to the Chicago O’Hare airport. We dumped Jeff's piece of **** he calls a car (like I can talk) and went by bus to the train terminal then by train to the international terminal. (the parking lot in Chicago is ******* huge so they have a system of buses and trains to haul your ass around). We met up with Dave and Jana and when the gates opened, dumped our luggage and ate and off we went. We flew Air Alitalia (Italian airline) to Milan--about an 8-hour flight. Day 2 Thursday Oct 26th We arrived in Milan that morning for a somewhat of a culture shock. The Airport was very busy but very plain and very open with hard cement floors met metal walls and ceilings. All travelers had to go thru a security check before transferring to the next flight. All travelers from every landing plane went thru the same bottlenecked line and it was a ******* zoo. Okay so we survive that, and we waited for the next flight to take us from Italy to our beloved Romania. So here is the fun part. When our gate opened, and we are called up, we passed thru a door and hallway, not onto a plane, but onto the runway! There, all passengers on our flight waited in a pile to be picked up by a bus, and shuttled right up to the plane on the runway! We exited the bus and climbed a staircase into the plane! It was priceless! We got video of that ****. The plane was very nice and it took only 2 more hours to get to Bucharest, Romania. We landed, checked bags, exchanged $, and met up with Adrian of Loudrage. He was to be the nicest guy we have ever met in our life. The most hospitable host ever. He had rented a car for our bags and bought us bus tickets to go to downtown Bucharest. The city was amazing. Bustling around were people and cars and trucks and it had the feel of New York or L.A.. It was enough to make your head spin. Next thing we know we are on the rooftop of a huge building drinking beer and eating some food waiting for the first show. The rest of the Loudrage guys (Adrian, Bogdan, Adi, and Sergiu) met us and they are very friendly and fun. Loudrage is a four piece band and they had along with them all their gear and clothes and food the week. We headed to the first show at the Club Utopia. Along the way there were people signing a petition against the government who is trying to ban heavy metal in Romania. We all signed it. It was a reminder that we should never take for granted our freedoms. The bar was underground and very ******* metal. Loudrage opened up with a very solid set, then we got to play. The crowd loved us and we loved them! We sold a lot of stuff and many people wanted out autographs! It was crazy because we had to literally run out of the bar and jump in cabs to meet a train at the train station to get to the next town. If we missed the train, our tour would be ****ed up! So here we are, bagging up our **** right after our show, and jumping in these little ******* cabs with all our ****, racing thru Bucharest at 11 pm! It was nuts. Day 3 Friday Oct 27th We board the train at midnight and it was neat. It was the first time I have ever road a real train before so it was cool for me. The compartments were private and the seats were comfy enough you could doze off in them. It was similar set up to the “Harry Potter” movies when the kids ride that train to school in the beginning, except that this train had a more modern motif. We rode the train for about 4 hours, then we switched trains in the middle of the night to finish our journey to Petrosani. My favorite part of the train was the bathrooms had a toilet that pretty much ‘dumped’ right onto the tracks. When you sat on it, you got a great breeze! We arrive in Petrosani, that morning with mist in the air and wild dogs roaming about. Great stuff for a novel! Turns out that morning mist is common in the valleys and the wild roaming dogs are offspring from sheep dogs of the old days and most of which are very friendly and want to be petted. I got pictures of Ria petting the ‘wild’ dogs (wagging their tails and all) . We met up with Alin and loaded our stuff in his wagon. Romania makes a car called the Dacia. It is small and has 3 lugs holding the wheels, which was strange to us. Now tha |
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