Office'). It ended up being pretty good! The major downside was that
the guys played at 8:15pm. This was the closing slot for their stage.
By this time of night, most kids have either gone home or they're
watching the final headliner of the night. As a result, the guys had a
small crowd.
They played on the Hurley.com stage. (They had been playing on the
Smartpunk stage for the first week of the festival.) We actually found
out yesterday that the guys have been upgraded to the Hurley.com stage
for the rest of their time on the tour! Pretty cool! We sold a lot of
cd's and talked to a lot of kids.
In the past four days, we've averaged around 100 cd's sold/day. This is
awesome! We're really excited that this tour finally shaping up!
After the show, we started our drive toward Detroit, MI (our next
stop). Well, at about 5 this morning, we pulled into a rest stop to go
to the bathroom. We heard a really loud noise coming from our front
right van wheel. It sounded like metal scraping on metal. We weren't
sure what to do. Well, a tour bus from the tour had happened to stop at
the same rest area. We flagged down the driver and had him check it out.
He said we'd be ok to drive it like 50mph the rest of the way to Detroit
(and then find a repair shop).
Well, we decided to try it on the highway. We made it about a mile and
the noise was still there. Next thing we know, we smell a really strong
scent coming from the van. We decided to pull over immediately.
We called AAA and had them tow us to a nearby repair shop. It turns out
that our front right hub on our van was loose. If we would have driven
20 more miles, our tire would have fallen off! The nose of the van
would have dived into the ground. Luckily, we were smart enough to stop
driving.
In addition, we had a broken leaf spring on our trailer. We didn't even
know about this, but the repair guy caught it. We're lucky he did,
because the trailer wheel could have fallen off if the other leaf
springs broke.
Anyways, we were really lucky to get all those repairs done before
things got worse! Well, about four hours and $500 later, we're finally
continuing our trip to Detroit. We should get there around 2pm. I
called Warped Tour and told them what was up. They hooked us up with a
7:05pm time slot so we could make it in time! Loading equipment through
the crowd is going to be chaos, but we'll get it done. I hope the
second half of this day is a lot better than the first half!
*Thanks a lot to the guys at Rich's Towing & Service, Inc. in Middleburg
Heights, OH! They worked really fast and cut us a good deal!
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