10/30/07 Gunnison Brewery (Gunnison CO)

We arrived to the small strange town of Gunnison Colorado, it was really cold and we were hungry. We had a radio interview on KWSB so we found the campus and headed into the studio. The interview went well so we hung out for a bit then decided to check in at the venue. It was a small little bar but 2 really cool girls were working there and helping us figure out what was going on. We were supposed to have a sound system provided, but there was none. We were also supposed to have hotel rooms, there were none. Here we were in chilly CO, I'm playing drums and doing vocals at a club with no sound system, no place to stay, cold an tired from driving all day. Eventually we found a decent place to crash, the girls at the club called up a friend who dropped of a couple of speakers and a board from the early 70s. Plus it was the day before Halloween and everyone was going to be dressed up and acting crazy. We cracked the code on the sound system and tried to get the levels somewhat listenable and dove into the set. The more the night went on the the crazier the costumes got, the crazier the costumes got the crazier people started to act. On our break another N-word was dropped to me casually by some old guy in a trenchcoat and a cowboy hat. Is this normal out here? What am I supposed to say, just because I'm white do I look like thats cool with me? Don't they notice that there are only 2 white guys in the band and the rest are either Black or Mexican. The night was a blur of bright costumes, terrible sound and us just trying to get through the show.