Phoenix, AZ
The best thing that happened tonight was James from Asobi Seksu
agreeing to be pied in the face with the cake in the green room. We ate
half of it first, and then Jason smashed it in his face. That's one of
those clown tricks that is actually hilarious in real life. We tried to
stage a big fight between the bands on camera, but we were having way
too much fun with the cake-in-the-face idea.
Early on in the day we stopped at Jimmy Eat World's studio and recorded
some backing vocals for one of their new songs. They are super nice
guys and even though we are so not pro in the studio, Jim was patient
with us while we sang a bunch of oooohs. Twas cool. We talked about our
kids with them. It's always nice to find people doing this music thing
with kids. I want to start some sort of petition to insist on rock
clubs making accommodations for family bands. Like, a little clean play
space, a breastpumping area or a free, background-checked babysitter.
That would be so rock and roll.
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