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Tour Diary Part 4
🕑 Added 2025-01-31 15:02:26 +0000 UTCGreetings from Madison WI, where I've returned from a long walk to my favorite soup in America - A chicken and andouille noodle soup from Monty's Blue Plate Diner. I jogged over there this morning and sat at the counter. I asked for the soup and the waitress said they didn't have it anymore. I was crestfallen and glumly looked through the menu for something else... but she returned to tell me she had been mistaken, and moments later I had a hot bowl of the very best stuff.
(for the record i've just tried for 5 minutes to have this jpeg show up in the right orientation... but it keeps uploading sideways!)
Gregg has joined the tour and we couldn't be more happy to have him! We had a lot of laughs backstage yesterday in chilly Minneapolis. It was good to be back at it after 2 days off in the barren flats of Eastern Montana. I did have another great diner experience there, a Penny's Diner which is now the only place we could find to eat in Glendive. I had a roast turkey dinner with mashed potatoes and was very heartwarming.
Glendive has gone downhill though, 2 of the places we frequented last time were closed this time.
During Neil's chunk in Minneapolis I saw news of the disastrous plane crash. We'd been doing Trump's Private Pilot as a stirring and angry protest song to end the night, but I think we'll be putting any songs alluding to plane crashes on the back burner for now.
For the past week everyone on the bus has been infected by the disease of Randy VanWarmer's beautiful "Just When I Needed You Most." We all can't stop humming it and we finally started playing it in soundcheck. I thought it'd make for a great Neil Hamburger torchlight song, so we debuted it with him on lead vocals last night. It was so great. And was fun for me to sneak back to Ellie and Connor's station and just be the rhythm guitar player for a song.
Overall the Madison show was really fun. It was a smaller more intimate venue and everyone felt like they were THERE for it! It continues to move me when I see people out there singing along and boppin their heads to the tunes.
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It's Friday morning and I'm now in Chicago, outside of Thalia Hall, it's dark and rainy out. We are heading out for a band session for something called Audio Tree where we'll be filmed playing some of our set in a proper studio and it then will be released at some point. Will be a busy day, but should be all fun along the way.
Couldn't be having a better time with this gang. See you tonight Chicago!
P&L, T
Comments
Jordan Melrood
I love Monty's. I used to live in Madison but never got that soup!
Ashley Oh
That would be amazing. Is there a way to vote them onto either one, I wonder? 🤩
Steven Meltzer
I can’t wait til the day where we get a KEXP session and an NPR Tiny Desk, you deserve it, so excited for tonight!
lilula9
SO excited to see you and the band tomorrow for the second time and Gregg for the first! Let's keep this energy going~ also thanks for sharing about the studio session--I'll probably forget about it until it's released and get to re-experience the tour again with amazing close ups. Thanks for all the work you all do--see you soon!
Joe Brian Radio
Definitely get some El Milagro tortillas and chips while you’re here. And Tuscany on Taylor. Hell, call em right now tell ‘em 6 filets and 6 pear ravioli all day Thalia Hall ship it.
Seanmond
my partner and i were singing along right behind the barricade at the seattle show but we had masks on so it was probably hard to tell lol
Walter Nini
Tim- a piece of unsolicited advice for you. Head to Cermak Produce (5 min away from Thalia Hall) and buy as many bags of El Milagro chips as you can. Maybe get some tamales too. We’re talking about a top notch tortilla chip here that is hard to find outside of Chicago. Will vastly improve the rest of the Midwest leg of the tour!
Ashley Oh
There was such great energy last night between the crowd, the band, and Neil!! It was so cool to see Neil live, he was simply hilarious! My jaw hurt by the end of the night from so much smiling, laughing and singing. It was great to meet you at the VIP and I'm glad you loved the gift I made for you! It made me so happy to see you wearing it during the show. ☺️ Thank you for such an amazing night!! SOOO well worth the 4 hour trip up here!!! Love ya, Tim and gang! Can't wait for next time. 🫶🏼✌🏼
Doctor Tony
ALL the food is poison.
KG Wyatt
Looking forward to hearing the Audio Tree recording!
CB
Did this mfer skip over tour diary 3??
psybezero
It is rainy 🌧 Stoked for you and Neil tn, brought some hot sauces I make to share too
Kay
Enjoy. Stay warm ,and love to you and your whole gang of talented people
Jack Moore
Excited for the show tonite 💜
Russell Knudson
Thanks for coming to Madison, there were people in stitches during Neil H and crowd was having a great time bouncing around in the rock energy
TJ K
Sad I couldn't make the trek to Madison or Chicago from Milwaukee this time. Glad to hear it was a good show.
Eden
My band just did Audiotree this week, it's a fun time! Excited to see yours
Clay N. Ferno
thank you tim!
syadalas
See you in Toronto!
syadalas
That soup pic gave me a fat soft. Did you apply any sweet cream butter to your… is that a biscuit?
Aaron Quillen
Oh, sick that you’re doing an Audiotree session! Stoked for the show in Grand Rapids, MI tomorrow. The Pyramid Scheme is a cool venue, chevron patterned floor a la Twin Peaks.
