Planes, Storks, and Satellite Radio..

Been a few since my last post — and I’m excited to report on some killer developments in the NMB fam!  BIG UPS to Temper T on the birth of his first baby — a beautiful girl named Anela.  The cycle is complete — all of NMB are officially fathers….well, except DJ Mems..but he’s hard at work getting that together.  Congrats to Temper and his wife Alison — couldn’t be happier for your guys!

Anela Louise Pau

AND — we were blessed enough to actually just get back from a dope performance up at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington!  Whitworth has been too kind to us over the years — I think this was performance number 4 or 5 for NMB?  They outdid themselves this time around, putting us up in a DOPE 7 bedroom home off-campus, getting us transportation, and flying us up all on their dime.  To top it all off, the show itself was incredible — read on….

How's um? Better than hotel ladat..

Spokane is a decent sized city in eastern Washington — and we hit it up with some perfect timing.  Weather was great (sunny and in the 50′s during the day and 40′s at night), digging was abundant (Wade found some gems at the local vinyl shops) and all of us were stoked to be up there to rock together again and to spend some time getting to know Temper’s new addition….

After rocking  a good 2 days of practice, finding the cheapest grocery store on the planet, hitting up the local Red Robin for unlimited french fries, and listening to a crapload of satellite radio in our rental car (never even knew there was a rapper named Wacka Flacka Flame — hands down the crappiest moniker I’ve heard), we were ready to hit the campus on Saturday night for the show….

Wait..WHAT?!

Local Spokane emcee’s Freetime Synthetic (whom I accidentally introduced as ‘Freestyle’ Synthetic — my bad homie) and Quiz 10, collectively known as Gun of the Sun, were the opening act.  They rocked a dope 35 minute set that seemed to take the (mostly) uninitiated crowd by surprise with some deep songs that really made folks think.  Dope emcee’s and cool all-around crew.

We were a little worried that the crowd wouldn’t be there — especially right before the whole show kicked off….but they came to our rescue en masse and enjoyed a live show that we worked hard on to do right.  One thing I gotta say — I haven’t been proud of every NMB show we’ve done — but this one was definitely in my Top 3…….crowd got into it from song #1…hands in the air…dancing in the back….nodding in the front…..buying CD’s after the show…..just all-around DOPE show with a great audience.  That makes it all worth it…..

DJ Memoirs and Wade checking the sound..

Be on the lookout for some video clips to hit shortly….Wade’s putting together some footage for ya’ll.  BIG, HUGE UPS TO WHITWORTH COLLEGE, TEMPER T, ALISON, ANELA, CONNOR (CAN’T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR GETTING US UP THERE AGAIN!), DANNY, SHAWN, BRANDON, RON, DRAKE (FOR MAKING THE SONG THAT BECAME THE SOUNDTRACK FOR THE TRIP), THE FREEMANS (FOR SELLING THAT HOUSE WE STAYED IN), TOMATO TREE, RED ROBIN, CORNCOB PIPES, THE IPAD, AND ALL THE CRAPPY PEOPLE THAT SAT NEXT TO US ON THE PLANE — YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.  Till next time….NMB!  (posted by well.being)

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