HORSE THE BLOG: HORSE THE BAND KEYBOARDIST LORD GOLD ON BEING BORED ON TOUR
Thursday, October 8th, 2009 at 3:00pm by MetalSucks
[Horse the Band are currently on tour supporting their new album Desperate Living (full stream here!). Keyboardist Lord Gold (his mommy calls him Erik) was one of the first dudes in a band to do guest blogs for us and he's fucking hilarious, so when he offered to do a tour blog again on this latest jaunt we were delighted. God willing we'll have a few more entries in the coming weeks. -Ed.]
Driving to Corpus Christi… We ate Rudy’s BBQ in San Antonio this morning. I ate half a sausage, creamed corn, and 6 baby back ribs. It made the drive go by, it put me down. 3 hours later… we are in Corpus Christi. I woke up and immediately felt crippling boredom watching the car dealership signs go by. Lots of times when you’re not on tour you feel nostalgia for a certain place and activity you did there. Feels kinda exotic and special compared to the routine of the rest of your life… Being out of town and eating something, or whatever… You think about how fun that would be and how good it will be to get on tour again and roll up there one day. I want to eat sno cones in Corpus Christi pretty often at this sno cone stand. The perfect balance of syrup and ice that held the syrup in it and didn’t freeze into big balls. When I woke up I realized the sno cone place would be closed. It’s not summer. We probably wouldn’t go to the beach either. Then I remembered the venue in the abandoned part of downtown. It put me in a mental hole that reached a low low enough to force me into writing a “tour blog”.
Last night I lay on the floor of the back room for a while in the corner. I did not know what to do. I walked out to the trailer alone and took 3 shots of vodka from my “value bottle” and came back in. Things seemed a little bit better but still not to the point where “talking to people” felt like a viable option. Then we played.
We lost one of our trailer locks last night because we were too drunk. Then when we were driving back to the venue to look for it this morning we saw it on the street and got it. Sometimes I think about how you could just leave anything somewhere overnight and go get it in the morning. It feels silly. For a while I was sad because the locks cost $30 each and I had to special order them off the Internet and we only got them 3 days ago. When we found it I remember thinking “I smiled” and wondered about smiling in general.
Yesterday I stood on an anthill for a while on accident, then a bunch of ants bit my leg. I looked down and couldn’t see my shoe. It was kind of funny. It also helped to pass an hour cause I got to find them in my shoe and kill them all. I have to go pee in a ziplock bag now so one of my bros can pass his drug test.
-LG
Wait, what?
seriously, that is some random ass shit. not really a “tour blog”… more of a warped train of thought.
Sno cones are metal
still interesting though.
there was nothing interesting about this at all
Better than Dallas’ whiny bitchfest.
I’d rather listen to this dude all fucking day then even see anyone from god forbid write anything on here.
agreed, HtB rocks. Randomness is metal. Dallas may have good advice but he can suck a nut when it comes to entertainment. MORE LORD GOLD!
Lord Gold there sure LOOKS like a horse.
Oh, you so funny!
I saw you guys in like 01′ at the High Five in Columbus, OH. You were so fucking drunk you couldn’t even play your keyboard. I laughed.
SHANETERA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HAVEN’T RANDOMLY RUN INTO YOU ON HIGH STREET IN A HOT MINUTE.
John like from deadwillrise and the Heartland?!?!
Haha… so random. Love these guys.
Is that Napoleon Dynamite?
Rudy’s, I miss you indeed. If only decent BBQ existed here in NYC.
Hill Country – 26th between 6th ave and Broadway.
Dank as fuck.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Karl Pilkington of Metal!
invest in a portable dvd player and rechargeable batteries. then just have fans bring out dvds to you on every stop of the tour, i mean i dont think thats to demanding of you to do we all got a buttload of dvds we dont watch i know i do.
I didn’t really follow this but its true about being bored and battling it. I leave for tour in 3 days!!! so it got me anxious to “hurry up and wait”. Its what it sounds like, sitting in the van for hours to a place that hopefully has some sort of existence, be on time or close if not early depending on the drive and how soon you wanted to leave the town prior to wait and wait and wait unload wait play wait load up wait. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. ……….seriously.
It is seriously the best existence….but boring sometimes, yes….
Good luck on your shows, going around SF Bay Area at all?
Lambgoat already played out the Napoleon dynamite thing. no more please.
Don’t cross the streams!
dear lordgold,
you responded to one of my comments i posted on your bulletin, i was wondering if the sexually humiliating teenagers workshop you gave jon karel you mentioned would be available after or before a tourdate in florida.
yours truly, brad
damn, i love reading erik’s blogs. so random. i’ll be following this. can’t wait to see horse on saturday!!!! 123 htb!
Lord Gold is the only musician I’ve encountered that managed to give me, an audience member in the front row, a generous portion of alcohol poured right into my throat directly from the stage. So Erik, if you’re reading this, you absolutely earned a place on my list of top 5 live experiences. Probably number one.
H the B fucking rules.
CUTSMAN! CUT! CUT! CUT!
Or something.I miss 2002.
Lord Gold man You guys gotta play A RUSTY GLOVE!!! i fucking love that song! It gets me pumped to do just about anything!!! HTB
sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Attention Napoleon Dynamite…you guys suck – remember that heckler at the First Unitarian Church in Philly a few years back when you opened for DEP & BTBAM? It wasn’t me but I was a few guys down from him – he was the highlight of your set.
I’ve never peed in a bag but this blog comment section reminds me why I never leave the house.
I’m not bald or fat, but I bet most of you assholes are.
Metal!!!!