2nd part of the summer blog here. Probably should have mentioned this earlier but for the better part of the summer me and Ramsay had been playing guitar together writing some tunes and those tunes eventually evolved into this band that me and Ryan and been joking about for awhile which neither of us thought would ever materialize, but it did which is rad. The band formed with me and Ryan playin guitar, my bro Con on bass, big ol Grant on drums and Derrek "Mr. Incredible" Traxel doing the vocal duties it is called RATWHEEL, keep your ears open. So, right when we get back from Cali we get offer to play this show which was like a week later, we were not ready to play a show at all and had barely jammed and got our songs worked out but Grant and Ryan were psyched on the idea much the shegrin of me, and Con who thought we wouldn't be ready. So we spent the next week jamming everyday and ended up getting out shit together and actually playing 2 shows instead of one and both went splendid. We nailed out 4 songs and people were vibin it so it was a good time for sure. Thanks to all our friends who came out to watch our first show, definetly helped to calm me down. I guess I should mention that I flipped out one day while jamming and broke out cause I couldn't get a song down. The boys aka Ramsay had a good lark at that one. Ratwheel is writing more songs right now, I think we got about 6 or 7 now and are going to record in the very near future. I will post the demo up on here when it's done.
In other show news, the boys from Kelowna managed to get this allstar lineup to come play a show in Kelowna over Vancouver, lineup was Have Heart, Shipwreck, Cruel Hand, Bitter End and Grave Maker (amazing). So I was super pumped for that since Have Heart is one of my favorite bands and it would be my last time seeing them before they broke up :(. The show ended up being awesome and the venue the boys found was ridiculously good. All bands were solid, we mosh, we sang and Sean got frapped...hard.
I am trying to think of other stuff to talk about in here...the rest of the summer was pretty basic, we did a bunch of swimming, cliff jumping, wakeboarding, hanging at the cabin, and some partyin here and there. All of which were a great time. We had Lennea's dad come stay with us at the cabin for a weekend, her brother and their dogs came as well. It was fun having them here I really enjoyed just hangin and playing with the dogs all weekend. One of the dogs Duke i'm pretty sure is gay/retarded, pees like a girl (he is male), lets things hit him in the head when you throw them to him, is afraid of everything even though he is huge (about 130 pounds) and has to nap after like 10 mins of exercise. Lennea also just had her friend Megan come stay with us for a week which was fun, I always find we do alot more activities when we have people staying with us. OH, I just remember that last weekend me, my Dad and Connor went to Van for the BC Lions game. Game was intense, came down to the last play with the Lions coming out on top. Was never really into the CFL but the game was super exciting and fun, thanks to my Dad for taking us!
So I guess the highlights of summer aside from the trip to Cali would be these:
- Friend hangouts: Ramsay, Grant, Derrek, Joni, Con, Sean, Lindsay, Matt, Dustin, Tommy, Clayton, Megan, Justen and of course Lennea.
- Cabin days
- Dan + Lennea hangouts
- Swimming
- Enderby river floats
- Screamers
- Cliff Jumping
- Oroville
- Ratwheel shows + jams
- Have Heart show
- Kelowna Monsters
- BC Lions
- Mom and Dad
- Opie naps
- Partyin
- All around good times
I am sure I am missing some stuff but that stuff up there pretty much sums up my whole summer. It was a blast and I am sad that I am now back at school (today was my first day). I am hoping the year won't be too tough but I won't be holding my breath. Kinda worried that I won't be able to get my work done since I am back living at home now, so many distractions. Also, me and Lennea are going to the hot springs in Revelstoke for our 3 year anniversary (send presents) in Revelstoke this weekend, which I am hyped for as it will be like my last big outing for the summer, after that pure unfun school ugh.
Anyways, this summer was a blast and one of the best I have ever had, hopefully next years will be as good! Thanks to all my buds for hangin with me, being the best friends I could ask for and making my summer a good one.
- Dan
Some more pics to end it:
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