Day Nine: Old Post Office. Fayetteville, AR. dinosaurs

Started the day in Tulsa with showers then cruised to meet my cousin Scott for lunch at a local diner he’d tracked down in Catoosa. It was a cute place, and packed for the lunch rush. We hung there for a couple hours talking about progressive rock and airplane parts into the mid-afternoon.
Scott had driven his Oldsmobile wagon that he had tricked out and hand painted blue flames on. He come from a family of car enthusiasts and mechanics that love to rebuild old cars. He has a few other projects in the works, but this is his active treasure. In addition to being a commercial airplane mechanic, Scott does custom flame detailing. If you ever need anything at all flamed, look him up at www.flamebrainz.com and give him a holler. He does fantastic work. The Ghost Ghost might have a future of flames. We did some serious brainstorming for flames for her. Next tour that brings us to Oklahoma we’re going to look into scheduling some flaming time.

After lunch, we saddled up and began the relatively short drive to Fayetteville, Arkansas. Since it was so short, we opted to dodge the toll road thanks to our GPS babe and wandered the Oklahoman backroads into Arkansas -- it was wonderful.

Landed in Fayetteville around 4pm and explored for awhile before meeting our hosts Amy and Justin over at The Dinosaur House -- their home and occasional site for house shows. They weren’t able to host a show with us due to volume issues, but had helped setup the show that night at the Old Post Office right up the street from them. Super nice people. Cooked us some vegetarian curry for our bellies and gave us a nice clean and cozy place to stay the night.

After dinner we walked a few blocks down to a cute local record store where a couple of Fayetteville bands were playing an in-store. We caught David’s Pegasus’s set as they played last and were celebrating being the local album of the year according to employees at the store. It was a cool scene. By then we were all feeling a very “Moscow-vibe” to the town -- the home of the University of Arkansas and apparently lots of like-minded folks. We also so our first rain of tour early in the evening. A nice warm spring rain accompanied by some rumbling thunder in the distance. Smelled amazing. Very refreshing.

The show that night was a lot of fun with a couple of great bands from Little Rock -- The Moving Front and Smokeup Johnny. We had a great time with everyone and once again met some rad people. Thanks to Amy and Justin and to Roger from Robot Lake Records and The Counterlife and to Shane and the OPO for a great night and a fantastic introduction to Fayetteville and Arkansas in general.

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::: gilbert