Sunday, April 3, 2016

Day 5: Durrrrrrango!

Balcony Bar & Grill

We hit the road at 10 am on our 5th day of travel. We were heading for an unknown prospect, Durango. Not only is Durango super far out of the way compared to our other shows, but no one had any idea about the venue, town or if anyone would even be there.

The drive itself was an absolute adventure and a true high moment for the tour. We drove through and around 14,000 foot mountains almost the entire drive until we hit the desert. 30 minutes later we were pulling to into the oldest pueblo looking town I had ever seen. It was Durango.

We found the venue pretty quickly and loaded in. The stage was huge and the room was equally as spacious and made entirely of wood. We started to getting really excited for the night ahead of us. 

After playing on the floor in Boulder it was really nice to have a proper club set up including a really amazing sound engineer, Matt. He allowed us to multitrack record the show and was very accommodating. A great sound engineer is sometimes overlooked, so we were sure to be extremely appreciative. 

By show time a few people had trickled in, but by the end of the first song, the entire place was packed. By the 3rd song we had everyone in the place dancing, how could it get any better? Durango was becoming a huge hit! Here's the Setlist...

4/1 Durango, CO - Balcony Bar & Grill

SET 1: The Wave, Camp Cut- Coulie, China Cat Sunflower -> I Know You Rider, Pool Rock, Banana Jam, Together Not the Same, Reptar, Smoke Two Joints, Lion in the Grass, C3PO, Officer

SET 2: Durango Jam -> Rogue II, Doc Brown, Yeti -> Smoke -> The Other One -> Yeti, Can't Have Both, Harley -> Willy, Durango Jam #2, Crossfaded Mammoths, Ronnie, I Saw Her Standing There, Dirty Hippies > Pancakes, What I Got, King Kong

After the show we met some locals and were allowed to pitch our tent in this girl's yard right down the street. We quickly set up the tent and went to sleep, still beaming from the amazing show we just played.

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