If The Breakfast are going to make it...

[Me!]

I\'d be happier if ya\'ll could learn to have your disagreements a bit more pleasantly tho.....

you\'re right, The internet is a beast that can brings these things on sometimes, not being able to tell a persons tone and such things make it easy to take smallest harmless comment to be taken the wrong way.  

I personally, as I know Leith does too, care a great deal about this band and anything and everything having to do with them.  So I can get carried away at times. trying to be a good boy.  

I keep a rooled up newspaper next to my keyboard so I can wak Lieth on the nose when necessary.

:lol:rotfl:lol:

[bdfreetuna]

All I\'m saying is... What do you do with your vacation time?  Go to some stupid all-inclusive resort in the carribean catering to boring married couples with no sense of adventure?

lol !!!

Actually I already spend 100% of my vacation time making it out to CT, NH, NY, eastern MA, and VT to catch many of the Breakfast shows there.

A vacation for me = Breakfast + splurging for a hotel room so I don\'t have to drive back in krunk condition at 5:00am

And I\'m already way over the amount of vacation days I\'m supposed to take this year. Which means being a SER Breakfast fan has really taken a big chunk out of my already weak income this year.

Do I regret a single moment? HEELLLLL no!!! I wouldn\'t have it any other way . But... lol ... "vacation time" at a caribean resort... lol .. Where I come from if all my co-workers and my boss knew how much of my income I actually blow on getting to Breakfast shows alone... well lets just say I\'d never hear the end of it.

And for this reason I get pretty pissed when somebody comes up in here to tell us all that we aren\'t making enough sacrifices for the band -- it\'s just beyond me.

[delfunk1]

What I have always wondered is why do Breakfast shows sometimes clear out for the second set?  Is this typical of alot of bands?  Perhaps we should start locking the door before the setbreaks and not let anyone out lol.  Just curious on what people think.

[FreeSpirit]

siimple answer:  Their ears cannot take the indulgence into what has become the most crazy, mind-melting insanity of music the Breakfast blows outta the speakers.  get out while u can, or be forever changed

[Spacey]

because they blow their load in the first set. they are the only band I have seen that constantly plays a longer 1st set than 2nd set. wish they would come on a little longer, play a shorter 1st set and have a longer 2nd set and encore.

[SlimPickens]

What do you do with your vacation time?  Go to some stupid all-inclusive resort in the carribean catering to boring married couples with no sense of adventure?

I\'ve done both style vacations and I gotta say, there ain\'t nothing wrong w/ the carribean.  Last time I was there, I was floating tits deep in the Aruban waters with a head full of rolls and a steady supply of beer being fed to me by a dark skinned princess, watching the sun set and wishing I never had to leave.

However, by spring time\'07, I should have enough PTO and enough frequent flyer miles to do both, follow tB for a run, then recover somewhere south of florida.

[Ant-Man]

because they blow their load in the first set. they are the only band I have seen that constantly plays a longer 1st set than 2nd set. wish they would come on a little longer, play a shorter 1st set and have a longer 2nd set and encore.

Ya I second that...
But I think another factor may be as well, is how late they actully usally start.  I don\'t know if this is a booking thing, the venue, or what...but some of use where talking about this when the webcast show started later than schedualed, and some of use wern\'t really surprised, seeing how TB doesn\'t really start before 10:30 usally...

[derickw]

What do you do with your vacation time?  Go to some stupid all-inclusive resort in the carribean catering to boring married couples with no sense of adventure?

I\'ve done both style vacations and I gotta say, there ain\'t nothing wrong w/ the carribean.  Last time I was there, I was floating tits deep in the Aruban waters with a head full of rolls and a steady supply of beer being fed to me by a dark skinned princess, watching the sun set and wishing I never had to leave.

However, by spring time\'07, I should have enough PTO and enough frequent flyer miles to do both, follow tB for a run, then recover somewhere south of florida.

AMEN!!!!!!!

[oldnewbie]

i\'ve stayed out of this one but.....i travelled for shows for years starting with the grateful dead, many times for moe. and have been constantly watching for a breakfast vacation i can take....but...
A. i have a family that doesn\'t want to spend our vacations following around degenerate hippie rock and roll bands and their tour rats  
B. i happen to love the shit out of all inclusive resorts in the caribean AND Epcot....somethings wrong with that?

[derickw]

so how did the promo go last night at Toads...... anyone attend.........

[jking]

what about co-headlining tours? raq is out there starting to make a little name for themselves, why not the two bands go out for a few weeks, alternating sets and combine name recognitions? or set up a whole cross country tour that way? play with tlg or new monsoon in the west, umph in the midwest, pgroove in the south, etc. i know that this has been done somewhat before (shared gigs), but why not do a tour that way? i\'m guessing extra logistical nightmares with two bands worth of folks on the road, maybe difficulty getting venues to pay full price for both bands, and i know opening slots aren\'t even really worth it time/effort/money-wise, but if both bands were splitting sets.... i dunno, just trying to think of constructive ideas that may help.

[WALSH]

Opening slots not worth it???  Since when??  Unless you are talking about opening for someone drawing the same 40-80 person crowd, they are totally worth it!!!  The band should try to get an opening slot for a tour or at least part of a tour with a band that has a bigger following like Mule/Umphrey\'s/moe./etc or even bigger(Where the hell is Crap-scendo??).  Opening for bands is a GREAT way to expose new crowds to their music.  I guarantee they would be progressing crowd/following wise at a greater rate if they did a few of these.

[Jim Cobb]

i dont understand why they dont do this.  in my old scene (punk/hardcore), 3 or 4 bands would tour together and it was a great way of getting lots of people out to the shows and expanding one\'s fanbase.

[jking]

no, i meant opening for bands of elatively the same size. obviously opening for bigger bands is a smart move at this point!

[Me!]

what about co-headlining tours? raq is out there starting to make a little name for themselves, why not the two bands go out for a few weeks, alternating sets and combine name recognitions? or set up a whole cross country tour that way? play with tlg or new monsoon in the west, umph in the midwest, pgroove in the south, etc. i know that this has been done somewhat before (shared gigs), but why not do a tour that way? i\'m guessing extra logistical nightmares with two bands worth of folks on the road, maybe difficulty getting venues to pay full price for both bands, and i know opening slots aren\'t even really worth it time/effort/money-wise, but if both bands were splitting sets.... i dunno, just trying to think of constructive ideas that may help.

Been there done that numerous times.  NOt that I\'m saying they shouldn\'t do it again....  They\'ve done a full tour with RAQ, and with PGroove, the BFast with PGroove is an awful combination IMHO.  RAQ and BFAST on the other hand. :chin: