Lights Over TaLL

The west coast radio run was a success.  We got a few ads right on the spot (when the Program Director places your song into rotation it’s referred to as an “ad”) and got ourselves into the bill of a few really cool shows.  After that I got to take a night off in San Diego and head back home to celebrate Will’s birthday.  LOP took responsibility of being the music directors at the downtown standard, and his birthday turned out to be really fun and a little blurry.

The next day (running off of almost no sleep), I had a lot of catching up to do, a vocal lesson, and a red eye plane to catch to Atlanta.  On the way home from vocals, a police officer decided to impound my car for window tint and leave me on the side of the road.  Rather than napping prior to the flight I got to deal with all of that.  The red eye was the most uncomfortable flight of all time.  We took off from LAX at 1AM, landed in Atlanta at 8am Eastern, and paid 30 bucks to shower at the red roof inn prior to our meeting (once again, I had no time to shower due to the strict window tint enforcement).  We took care of business in the very humid weather, got back to the airport at 5PM and then I fly to Cincinnati, Ohio to meet up with LOPNation.

It’s been almost two months since I have seen these guys so I was very excited to see them.  TaLLfren and Teecey picked me up in the van from the airport and we all grabbed a bite and then headed to a rock bar in downtown to hang with friends in Sum41.  The bartender kept buying us free shots all night and the next thing you know I am waking up in the hotel next to Brian “Sting” King who must have flown in while I was gone because he wasn’t there the night before.

Now it is 12pm Eastern, and I am about to shower and go meet up at the warped tour.  I needed to sleep in a bit since it has been a while.  After today, LOPNation immediately starts their drive to Milwaukee where they will drop me off at the Chicago airport to take a flight to NYC.  I have some amazing meetings lined up with songwriters, producers, PR,  and a lot of life changing peeps that have been in the game for a while. On August 1st, Devin and I start our East Coast radio run hitting cities from Maine to Virginia Beach.