1/11/07 On the Rox (LA, CA)

Ricky couldn't do this tour due to work obligations so we got a hired gun. Ben Leon a guitarist from LA (who has a great band called How to Win at Life) filled in. Our first show was at On the Rox, which is about the Roxy. We hit a gnarly traffic jam on the way there which was a sign of things to come on this trip. A semi and some type of red car that had been demolished except for a bumper and some scraps. One dead, several injured. We had to go on last since the accident held us up for over 2 hours. There were rumors of industry people abound and that the 2 rap acts in front of us were either signed or going to be signed. A few years ago I would have been pumped up and scoping the crowd and tryng to find out who was who. Nowadays translations LA person says "there are some A&R people" translates into "a guy that works in the mail room is here." The group that actually was signed was terrible and reinforced our opinion that being signed don't mean a thing and that the people doing the signing have no taste. It was typical LA. Beautiful people in a room listening to something trying to look around to see if other people liked so they could decide if they like it. It was good to see my brother(he is on the coaching staff at Pepperdine University, mens basketball, my brother-in-law is the assistant coach). There were some girls there talking to Sean afterwards, they were having a good time, at one point one of them was on a pole. One was a friend from back in the day so he said he was going to hang and we could pick him up in the morning on the way out of town. We said cool and started loading out into the van. We were almost done when Bronson got a text from Sean, saying hold on we got pulled over off of Sunset. The driver gets popped for a DUI and Sean and this other girl he doesn't know are on the curb gettng the 3rd degree. Sean was wearing a nice winter jacket with fur on the hood that he brought especially for this trip since we were headed to cold territory. At some point the arresting cop made a comment that Sean should lend his jacket to the girl since it was cold, so he did. The cops take off and were on our way to pick him up, when he has to take a leak. After taking a leak he turns around and the girl is gone, and so is his jacket. he was pissed whe we picked him up. We crashed at the coaches pad in Malibu. It was all of 40 Watt Hype and all of the coaching staff of the Pepperdine Mens baskterball team. Aerobed Nation as we call it. My brother gave sean some Addidas sweat shirts for the rest of the trip and we were off the next morning.