It was kind of a schlep, but we made it to Schenectady NY with time to stop at our hotel on the way, and then hunted down a Panera Bread Bakery-Cafe. Panera Bread has really been a lifesaver, if, for no other reason, you can get salads and soups and sandwiches that are healthy and fresh. (I burned out on Wendy’s salads while touring ages ago!)
Dinner was in the dining hall, after our soundcheck. It brought plenty of memories back from my days at Rutgers University; I found it difficult not to automatically pile four glasses of orange juice on my tray. (This, by the way, kept me from getting a cold my entire freshman year, even with my crazy schedule that only allowed for 4 hours’ sleep a night.)
By now you may or may not have heard the stories of how bands do drugs in the green room before a show. Well, you’ll be happy to know that the am4 is not that sort of band: instead, there’s some serious yoga happening.
Fraser and Jason striking a pose
Union College has an amazing new performance center that we just loved! We played one intense set of a lot of new material. Not sure if it was recorded, but I’ll find out. (I think it may have been videotaped.)
After the performance, we had to high-tail it back to the hotel which was about 90 minutes closer to Niagara Falls, the next stop on our tour. It’s a LOT of driving, to be sure, but still not as bad as the one time I had to drive with a band from McKinney TX to Nashville TN within 24 hours…that was just plain ridiculous.
