My American Pie Moment or the Time I Met a Girl Wearing Only Boxers

Well now that I have gotten the worst 50 songs ever list done, and I have posted my “Return of the Dragon Gods” story for the week (which will end up being a two parter). I will tell you another story of some of the great times I have had with my best friend Eric. This story, surprisingly, has nothing to do with the great times I have had being a roadie for his band One Breath; which surprisingly might be getting back together for a reunion with some new song as well. No this story deals with one of the many times I went to visit him when he would work out of town.

I called him up one weekend and asked if he was too busy that weekend to hang out, since at the time we were living about 50 miles from each other him in Youngstown and me in Stow. Well he said that he had to work in just outside of Pittsburgh (about 20 miles or so east), but he could give me some gas money if I wanted to come out so I said sure why not.

Well I drove out there and when I finally got to his motel the he was staying at I found out that our other friend Brandon was staying there as well. So the three of us piled into Eric’s Geo Metro and went out, we went to Denny’s and ate some dinner. Brandon flirted a little with the waitress. Then we rode around a little bit and went back to the motel.

After a few minutes of shooting the breeze I decided it was time for me to make the long trip home, so I asked for the gas money they said they’d give me. Well they told me sure we’ll give ten bucks, but you have to work for it. They told me I have to dance for them “American Pie” style. They told me that it would help me boost my confidence with the ladies. Well knowing Eric and how his mind works I said sure I’ll do it, beside I needed the gas money.

So the grabbed the clock radio and proceeded to try to find a good song on the radio. Once they told me to start I danced around a little with a chair and then I took off my shirt and twirled it around a little bit to be funny and threw it to the side. They told me they wanted more so I took off my shoes and tossed them aside along with my socks. Well they still weren’t satisfied so I took off my shorts and threw them.

Well next thing you know Brandon grabs my clothes and runs out of the room, leaving me to chase him wearing nothing but my boxers in about early March. I chased him down the hallway and down the stairs and he continued to run into the parking lot and across the parking lot and hung them off of a truck. I got about two steps towards the door towards and froze.

Sitting on the curb was a beautiful girl wondering what was going on. Well after about a minute and Eric encouraging me to go on I went out there and grabbed my clothes put them back on and then explained to the girl what had happened. She laughed and we just kept on talking for a few minutes until she went back to her room.

Well after my friends joked with me a little bit about not trying to get invited to follow her back into her room they gave me my $10 and I left. So that is the story of how I met a girl wearing only my boxers.

Random Bachelor Card of the Day: “Return from the bathroom with your fly down or with toilet paper stuck to your shoe. Buy a drink for the first sweetie who points it out.”

That could be a fun one to try.

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Wow this is the latest I’ve posted but I have overcome the challenge of posting while at Midsummers. I can’t wait to post about Midsummers and all the chaos that will happen tonight.
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The Bass Player That Got Away

Ok so I have had a pretty decent idea of what I wanted to write about today and at first was afraid I would not be able to tell the story while keeping it family friendly, then I realized the events that happened were family friendly. So I was worrying about nothing. Well anyhow on to the story of how close I was to finding a Ms Right Now who was a bass player.

One Breath at one point was doing so good that we were getting gigs in different major cities including Cleveland. Well one night we had a gig opening for an all girl rock band. We had got there early in the day after hours of long traveling. Well since we were the first band we got in and setup our equipment early. Then we just hung around. Well later on we were in the upstairs VIP room and we were just talking to the opening band, or at least the rest of the band was. I was busy carrying on an in depth conversation with their bass player. Don’t ask me what the conversation was about because I don’t remember, heck I can’t even remember the name of the place the band played in after searching through the different bars in Cleveland using Yahoo yellow pages and Google Earth. I just remember being pulled away from the conversation because our band was about to play and they needed me in the crowd, and getting the feeling that we both wanted me to stay up there.

So One Breath played their set list including such original hits as “Jump”, oh yeah another cool thing about the band was they didn’t do any cover songs they had nothing but originals. After they played we tore down our equipment and packed it all in the trailer in the rain. After the trailer was packed up Eric who was my only ride decided he wanted to leave not even half way through the other bands set list, although later I found out I could have stayed and gotten a ride from the rest of the band. So I didn’t get to even say goodbye to the bass player or even ask for her number. I had to leave right there and then or risk upsetting my best friend and reason for being there in the first place since it was his drums I was in charge of. Granted the reason he wanted to leave was because he wanted to go home and sleep in his own bed before going back up to Cleveland for another gig the next day at a different venue, but still it would’ve been nice to stay and hang out there for a while and maybe even do something that is not family friendly with the bass player. From what I was told she was asking for me later on.

If Eric can get a hold of the band again I may ask him to see about getting the video performance of the gig just so I can show my friends the band and the band they opened for.

Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day: “In your best Austin Powers voice, approach a honey and say, ‘Do I make you horny, baby?’”

That would be a pretty simple one to do, not sure on how the girl would react. She would probably laugh her but off at me as she walks away.

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Mushroomhead story

So I was sitting around our new fire pit tonight trying to come up with something to blog about when I thought why not just do another Eric story, so I will. I kinda figure since I teased everyone about the time One Breath opened for major metal band Mushroomhead I would tell you about it now. First however I’m sure some of you may not know who Mushroomhead is so I’ll tell you.



Mushroomhead is a heavy metal band that is originally based out of Cleveland, OH. I guess they are technically industrial metal. One of the distinguishing features about them is the fact that most of the members wear masks. This has caused some controversy among fans of Slipknot because fans of both bands claim they stole the mask idea from each other. Personally I don’t care because in my opinion both bands are great. Mushroomhead has been on movie soundtracks and on MTV’s “Headbanger’s Ball” so needless to say this was a huge deal.

Now this was a hectic day to say the least. The night before we had played at the exact same venue as a last minute replacement opening act for Prong, another major metal band whom have been cited as an influence to such greats as Jonathan Davis of Korn and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, so we luckily did not have to worry about loading and unloading our gear. However, the band had asked for us roadies to go in and help Mushroomhead unload early in the morning, alas of all five or six of One Breath’s roadies I was the only one to show up. Anyhow I went in and helped them unload the trucks and help a little bit with setup and then went home.

Later on for some reason or another we were running late for sound check and we had to literally run into the venue in the rain and start setting up while the band members tried to find parking spaces. Well we made it in time and after some major hustling and teamwork among the roadies we were ready for the sound check in no time.

Well One Breath played their set and then while the second opening band was playing their own set we went “backstage” and brought along our two VIP guests my sister and her friend. You see the venue they played in was an indoor driving range called the Golf Dome and with a full sports bar in it. Well the backstage area was the driving range and while we were back there we got to hang out with Mushroomhead without their masks on and got to hit some golf balls with them and just generally shoot the breeze with them.

Well when it was time for Mushroomhead to go onstage we left and went to find a place to stand. Luckily we decided to stand on the side because when Mushroomhead got on stage the entire bar was a mosh pit literally from wall to wall nothing but a mosh pit. My sister had to climb on top of a speaker with the help of our bass player because it was so intense.

Well after everything was all said and done and the crowds had left we were talking to the band and they were saying that they were impressed with our band. They even went as far as to give us a few pointers on some of our songs.

Well after our conversation and all we loaded up our gear and headed home for the night.

Random Bachelor Card of the Day:”Tell to chicks you’re getting married, and ask them to fulfill your last wish as a bachelor: to see a little girl-on-girl lip-locking action.”

I would defiantly take that dare or at least watch while someone else does the dare.

If you would like to see a Mushroomhead video just click here and it will take you to a You Yube music video of their first single.

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An intro to One Breath.

Wow so now the contest is down to the final four. We have Stray Hairs whom writes some lengthy blogs that are pretty interesting, then you have The Priestess Warrior who also writes some long ones that are interesting oh and by the way since you like dragons keep your eyes glues to my Dragon God story because after a while you will definitely see many stories with them in it, after that we have the Hobbit she is a wonderful person whose blogs I love reading and am happy to so I am good friends with her, however the final competitor is me and I don’t plan on loosing I don’t care if during the middle of the night I have to sneak over to the college and use their Internet to post during Midsummers since from what I have been told we are still required to blog during Midsummers but we will see. There was a rumor going around that during that weekend we would be able to call a truce, and that’s one rumor that I hope comes true.

Well enough of my babbling on about my future victory. Since I’ve had so much fun telling you all about the different stories of my past I figured since today was a boring day I’d do another Eric story. This one deals with when he was in a great metal band by the name of One Breath. One breath was starting to become a really great band with a huge following when it came down with the fatal disease known as Lead Singers Disease. Lead Singers Disease is a common band killer it happens when the lead singer’s head just keeps on growing and growing until it pops. That is a sad day because everyone has put hard work into the band however the singer thinks that he can just run the band booking shows without consulting other band members.

Now before anyone asks me no I do not play an instrument or sing , I was the drummer’s (my best friend Eric’s) own personal roadie, drum technician, and so on. Basically I would set up the drum set and test the microphone levels on them as well.

Seeing as I only have a few more words left I’ll do a brief talk about when they opened up for the band Mushroomhead. Yes that’s right they opened for them in the in the same place that was starting to become a normal place for them to play. Well I’ll tell you the full story another day since I am falling asleep while writing this.

Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day: “Offer to buy a drink for the first girl who delivers her thong to you.”

Not sure if I’d want that dare or not because I’m not sure I’d want it after she was wearing it that’s kinda gross.
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My time at X-Fest '01 with Eric

Well I was sitting here trying to figure out what to write my blog about while at the same time trying do work on the Phoenix Projects website for our Midsummers festival when I started thinking about some of the wild times my best friend, Eric and I used to have. So I figured I’d tell at least one of the stories and I could get at least 400 words out of one of those.

First off let me tell you about what he does for a living. I’m sure many of you have been to a concert of some kind, weather it was a huge one or a small one most concerts all have one thing in common; stage lighting. Well Eric’s job is to bring the lights, set them up, and sometimes does the show. Well many times I would help him out and in return I would get in to the concert for free.

Of all the times I helped him out I would have to say my favorite was the 2001 Pittsburgh X-Fest. First off the bands playing there included Staind, Fuel, Disturbed, Saliva, Crazy Town, and Train which considering at the time Disturbed and Saliva weren’t even popular enough to play on the main stage it was pretty cool. Well one of the cool things was the crew and the rock stars both ate in the same catering room at the same time and when I went to eat Aaron Lewis was in there so in a way I can say I ate with Aaron Lewis.

Although I’d have to say the best part of it was this one girl who was working event security. She had blonde hair, that was either braided or in a slight dreadlock I can’t remember which with I think pink and/or blue ribbons in it, and blue eyes. If I remember correctly I think she was in her late teens to early twenties like I was at the time. Anyhow I remember being in one of my rare moods where I had the courage to go up to her and carry on a conversation with her a few times. If I remember correctly her parents owned a local furniture store or something. At one point during the day long concert she was telling me how she was hungry so I went back to catering and grabbed either an apple or a banana and brought it to her. Well as the night wound down we still talked and I planned on talking to her again after the concert but unfortunately things did not work out that way since she left before I got finished.

Anyway that was the time Eric and I went to X-fest as time goes on I’ll tell some of the more wild things we’ve done like the time I got literally stoned in the park, or maybe even the times we made the crazy videos or even one of the many gigs I went on with him and his band One Breath. Who knows what story I’ll remember next?

Random Bachelor Card of the Day: “Regardless of what song is playing, invite a cutie to dance the Macarena.”

Well that card could be interesting depending on the song it could hilarious too.

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