{"id":65041,"date":"2017-11-08T10:45:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T16:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65041"},"modified":"2018-11-21T09:52:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T15:52:16","slug":"2017-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65041","title":{"rendered":"2017 Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waaaay back last summer, when I\u00a0 planned to release a Supreme Soviet of Love album, I picked a date:\u00a0 November 12.\u00a0 A Sunday night.\u00a0 Few conflicts, start and finish times early enough to get everyone home for the evenings news &#8211; perfect!<\/p>\n<p>My\u00a0<em>other\u00a0<\/em>band, &#8220;Elephant in the Room&#8221;, after taking taking a few months off to learn new material and change lineup, on the other hand, spent most of the year looking for a gig.<\/p>\n<p>Any gig.<\/p>\n<p>So between scheduleing a Supreme Soviet of Love gig for November 12 way back in July, and today, what happened?<\/p>\n<p><em>Of course\u00a0<\/em>Elephant in the Room landed a gig for November 11.<\/p>\n<p>So talk about this weekend!.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Saturday, November 11 &#8211; the Sundance in Maple Grove<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elephant in the Room will be playing at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Sundance+Golf+Banquet+Bowl\/@45.1594343,-93.489531,14.01z\/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x52b34724e3e861c3:0xace04f42e5decbe7!8m2!3d45.1594267!4d-93.4743729?hl=en\">Sundance in Maple Grove<\/a> from 8 to midnight.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Elephant-in-the-room-poster-1.png\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-64757\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Elephant-in-the-room-poster-1-194x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>EITR does classic rock covers from the 1950s through the 1990s &#8211; a grab bag of Elvis, the Kinks, Ian Hunter, the Cars, Bad Company, the Stones, the Who, Jimi Hendrix, the Eagles, Steve Miller, Tom Petty, John Mellencamp, Johnny Cash&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;well, pretty much anything that grabs you from that entire forty year period.<\/p>\n<p>And the Sundance &#8211; which I just visited for the first time last weekend &#8211; is a nice place; bowling, golf (probably not much of that &#8217;til spring), good pizza, decent beer selection, &#8220;Steak Night&#8221; on Saturdays &#8217;til 8PM (just $10!), and, of course, live entertainment.\u00a0 That&#8217;d be us, of course.\u00a0 No cover that I&#8221;m aware of, which makes it even nicer.<\/p>\n<p>It feels like it&#8217;s way out there &#8211; but it&#8217;s actually super easy to get to:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d22274.132750822908!2d-93.48953099280915!3d45.15943429028433!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x52b34724e3e861c3%3A0xace04f42e5decbe7!2sSundance+Golf+Banquet+Bowl!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1510107144238\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>It should be a fun night and a fun gig.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you can make it!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Sunday, November 12 &#8211; O&#8217;Gara&#8217;s in Saint Paul<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This gets complicated, so stick with me, here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Disk-Art.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-65043\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Disk-Art-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Disk-Art-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Disk-Art-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Disk-Art-768x768.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Disk-Art-1024x1024.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Supreme Soviet of Love&#8221; will be having the album release party for its first (and wjho knows, maybe only) album,\u00a0<em>See Red<\/em> this coming Sunday at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/O'Gara's\/@44.9463146,-93.1689589,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x87f62a1018727cbf:0xc2b9afd78e27f782!8m2!3d44.9463146!4d-93.1667702?hl=en\">O&#8217;Gara&#8217;s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>See Red\u00a0<\/em>includes a bunch of songs &#8211; a couple of them going back to the 1980s (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?cat=15&amp;paged=4\">we&#8217;ve encountered some of them here<\/a>), and a whole lot more that I wrote in the past year just to prove to myself that the whole thing wasn&#8217;t a nostalgia exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows &#8211; it may have been both.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know.\u00a0 And I don&#8217;t care!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FrontCover-WingIt.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64876 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FrontCover-WingIt-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FrontCover-WingIt-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FrontCover-WingIt-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FrontCover-WingIt-768x768.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FrontCover-WingIt-1024x1024.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FrontCover-WingIt.png 1875w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Soviet of Love will go onstage at 8PM, and come hell or high water we&#8217;ll be out of there by 9PM;\u00a0 you&#8217;ll be home in plenty of time for the 10PM evening news, or the 10PM rerun of\u00a0<em>Walking Dead\u00a0<\/em>if that&#8217;s what you prefer.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a $5 cover &#8211; 100% of which goes to pay the rest of the band.\u00a0 Me?\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping to sell CDs (and they&#8217;ll be on sale there, as well as available for download on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/see-red\/1299991615\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/See-Red-Supreme-Soviet-Love\/dp\/B076Q5B81L\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1510108480&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=see+red+supreme+soviet+of+lo+e\">Amazon<\/a> or wherever you like to get your music from.<\/p>\n<p>And by the way, the opening act, going on stage at 6:30ish, will be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d2823.869805766076!2d-93.16895888422988!3d44.94631457909816!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x87f62a1018727cbf%3A0xc2b9afd78e27f782!2sO'Gara's!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1510108958130\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Elephant in the Room.\u00a0 Yep.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be opening for myself.\u00a0 \u00a0 That&#8217;s one way to save money!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be hanging out after loadout until they kick me out of there, for anyone who wants to talk politics, music, beer, food, or whatever you got.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>So I hope, in an ideal world, you can make both shows; the Sundance could become a regular gig if we draw a lot of people, and of course the album release party has been on my bucket list since Ronald Reagan was president.<\/p>\n<p>Either one would be great, though!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waaaay back last summer, when I\u00a0 planned to release a Supreme Soviet of Love album, I picked a date:\u00a0 November 12.\u00a0 A Sunday night.\u00a0 Few conflicts, start and finish times early enough to get everyone home for the evenings news &#8211; perfect! 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