Tour diary: To the Moon
From Chris Schafer, drummer of instrumental drum and bass trio To the Moon:
We had a gig at the Continental. This was two summers ago. We drive up there, and it took us seven hours to get to New York. It was horrible. We rented a van, it was supposed to be a four hour drive.
We were late getting there because of all of the traffic, we got denied going through the Holland Tunnel because it was a rental van and they said that it's a commercial vehicle. We had to turn around and go down to the Lincoln Tunnel. We ended up missing our time slot. The club wouldn't change slots with us. It was a total bummer.
The next day, we're walking around, we see CBGB's. We go in just to take a look at the place. None of us had ever seen it before.
I started telling the people there what happened with us the night before at the Continental. They were like 'Aw, man, that's horrible.'
I said, 'What's the chance of letting us play tonight?' They let us open! It was a sold out show when they were trying to save CBGB's. It was a freaking packed house! It was unbelievable.
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