Kermit the frog, which spent several years inside my bass drum, was hung by a noose, and had a knife stabbed into him.
The stage was lined with hay from the barn, and another dead body sat on the front of it. Of course one of the best decorations we had was the dead deer that hung upside down just left of the stage. Once it got dark people could no longer see what it was, but the brown co. guys were making deer burgers all night with the meat from it. (I would find out later that they had chopped off the head, and placed it at the other entrance to the barn. But all this was before we even played.
The stage was lined with hay from the barn, and another dead body sat on the front of it. Of course one of the best decorations we had was the dead deer that hung upside down just left of the stage. Once it got dark people could no longer see what it was, but the brown co. guys were making deer burgers all night with the meat from it. (I would find out later that they had chopped off the head, and placed it at the other entrance to the barn. But all this was before we even played.
See the day had started out like this. I got off at 730am, picked up Nate dog and headed north to Greenwood to get my truck and some other supplies. We actually arrived at the barn around 1130 am, and some of the party had already started. By that I mean they were outside shooting guns, and mudding with their trucks. I've got video of all of it, but it's mixed in with everything else that I have to go through. I took about a four hour nap at that point trying to sleep through the constant sound of shotgun's and pistols that blasted in the background.Around 630pm I headed into town and finished picking up the kegs, and the rest of the liquor. I also grabbed some food, and by the time I got back the rest of the gang had gotten out to the barn and was starting to set up the drums, and P.A. equipment. We finished up the small details of the decorations by adding some hot blood to everything possible, and then started the sound checks. We were lucky enough to bring in Garrett Poortinga from California to do photo, video, and he even ended up hosting the event with Arias.
The real exciting thing about this event was being able to bring in the White Lightning Boys, Arias, and Amarye. Everything didn't exactly work out the way we wanted to. As the evening went on there was an accident in the parking lot which led to a lot of people leaving, but we made money back on the bar, we got people to travel to the middle of nowhere, and given better locations it would have a been a pretty huge event.
We ended up with some 8 hours of video, 3 - 4 hours of audio, and a damn good drunken time. I wish I could tell you more, but right around the time the first 50 people were there I had already drank so many long island ice tea's that I was hanging on to the bar to stay standing.
Thanks to: GJP, Amarye(Sorry-guys!), WLB's, and all the party people that stayed cool (wade, jimele, jess, lindsay, billy, etc.)
