Alaska Stories and People

EastonAshe played our first two shows at Chilkoots- Tuesday and Wednesday were light crowds, and alot depends on the weather here. If it's a nice sunny day, people tend to be out doing things and not hanging out at the club as much as if its a cloudy, cool or rainy day. Tonight is "JudiGras" at 'koots; a sort of MardiGras party. We all got costumes to wear- I have some kind of Goth/fetish robe with rings and hooks (I might have to keep this!) and a black skull cap, Geoff is a giant yellow Tele-tubby. We expect to see a lot of beer, beads, and boobs tonight (ummm...great).

Here's a link I found that gives you a little more flavor of Chilkoot Charlies:
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art51493.asp

Everybody in Alaska is really nice and friendly. It also seems that nearly everyone I meet is either named Mike, Bob, Jake or Doran. I've never met anyone named Doran, but now I know several. The good Doran is the Managing Partner of 'Koots- the excellent guy who took us all fishing last week. The other Doran is this little baby faced customer/partier at the club who loves the band and is supposedly a musician. He dances/bounces a bit while he talks to you, and by the end of the night has hugely dialated eyes and expresses his adoration for the band and our music by hugging us and saying we suck.

Chilkoots has a little pizza shop inside the club and we get very cheap slices when we're hungry. They also have little garlic bread sticks too. Here's a classic Ryan story for you- The other night, I went up to the pizza stand and ordered two breadsticks. A minute later, at exactly the same moment, the bread appeared on the counter as Ryan walked up next to me. Grabbing a breadstick, he says to me, "have you tried these? Dude, they're awesome! You should get some!", and then he disappeared. Gino, the pizza guy, without saying a word, replaced the missing piece while we both laughed at what just transpired.

The other night, Geoff needed some tweezers to shape up his 'unibrow', so we had to make a closing time run to Safeway. Of course we couldn't find one (how the hell would I know where to look for a tweezer?). Finally we saw this stockboy pulling a HUGE pallet of stuff down the aisle. He clearly was ready to go home for the night and just wanted to put this stuff in the back. Just as we asked him where to find tweezers, he crashed the pallet into the health food shelf and crashed the whole thing down. Boy did we feel bad.

Matt's girlfriend Brittany and his Dad, John came up here last week for a visit. It's great to see some familiar faces for a few days. Rumor has it that a few of our fans may be coming from Phoenix as well sometime in the next few weeks.

EastonAshe has the best fans- Fun, smart, cool people of all ages and backgrounds. Our Myspace page alone has over 5000 "friends"! It's my good luck to work with these guys. From the music to the management to the people who support us, it's just such a great experience. Our chemistry is fantastic and people have really welcomed me as "the new guy". We have the most supportive families and friends everywhere we go. We're all having a good time here; everything is going so well.

Thanks for reading and I'll update soon.