We had made it to Eugene. A short trip on a straight and sunny road had lead us to our venue for the night, Epic Space. A helpful employee at the adjoining tattoo parlor directed us to a soul food restaurant, steering us kindly away from a pizza joint (chuckles) where the proprietors get so stoned that they end up eating the pizza they were making you. The soul food was indeed so good we wanted to "slap your mama." A calming meal for a calm night in Eugene.
We sidled up to Epic Space, chock full of good wholesome collard greens and whipped yams. Certainly ready to play the show and hit up our place of lodging, el casa Sam, which turned out to be the most comfortable and relaxing place we stayed (twice, even) our entire trip. The venue had a well padded floor (3-layer carpet), and became a comfortable, living-roomy sort of setting for our relatively laid-back set.
Hobby Knife laid down some of the most psychedelic noise sounds I heard on the entire tour; I could easily say that her set was one of my favorites of any group we played with.
After the set, we traveled to Sam's, clearly tuckered out. After our relatively chaotic experience, Eugene was just what we needed. We were up earlier the next morning in order to find out how to get to San Francisco, and to hit up a little place that was recommended to us.
A sunny drive to California awaited us...
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