{"id":4411,"date":"2026-07-22T21:25:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slip-ons.ca\/slip-ons\/?p=4411"},"modified":"2026-07-22T22:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:04:24","slug":"storms-and-smiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slip-ons.ca\/slip-ons\/storms-and-smiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Storms and smiles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our Alberta trip in few words<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Everyone has safely returned to their respective home towns now. Rad Owl<\/a> had a matin\u00e9e show in Red Deer on Sunday along with the Offsailors and Trashed Ambulance, but we just checked out of the hotel and drove back to Calgary to catch a 2:20pm flight back to Vancouver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday night in Edmonton turned out to be a particularly fun and crazy night. I had no idea there was stormy weather warning\u2013it was maybe clouding over a bit on the way back to the venue. I felt a drop or two of rain pulling up out front of the Starlite, but I later heard that roads massively flooded and there was apparently torrential downpours while we were playing. I also heard Shane’s buddy from Teenage Bottlerocket had to turn his car around halfway to the venue due to the impasse of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vibe inside was super cool though. Parents with their grown up kids, (Hi Pauly) and a few stalwart Dough fans from the olden days, full of stories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davin from Cutoffs<\/a> was determined to outgun Shockker’s guitar antics from the night before, and he had plenty of homies in the room to egg him on. Our VERY long soundcheck proved to be worthwhile because they sounded great. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I took the stage to join Rad Owl for “Numbered Days” and “I Won’t Write You a Letter”, suddenly there were phones out everywhere and I kind of had to close my eyes to focus on actually hitting the notes. These four Minnesota dudes did the songs proud and I felt very honoured to have the opportunity to sing them again with such a punishing and dedicated lineup. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a certain point, “Are you the band that was staying at the Days Inn?” was heard, so I guess the folks we bumped into in the elevator showed up too. Oh, and I kissed Brian during “Hurrah Hooray” without completely fucking up what I was playing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shockker won the “guitar battle”, I would say, but I kinda rigged it in his favour by calling the vote when Davin was out in the alley. You snooze, you lose, buddy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since B\u00fcddies Fest last year, when Shockk threw his guitar onto the roof of the gear truck sidestage at the end of the set, it has kinda become a thing. In Calgary, he just kinda tossed it onto the floor, making a hell of a racket. This time he hung it up on some cables on the wall. What will he come up with next?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Dickens show was an early one before the Emo DJ Night, so we were done in time to be able to get lost on the way to Tubby’s<\/a> (underpasses can be tricky) and still meet up with Darren and the JSM<\/a> folks. I was pretty beat and falling into a food coma after a Stan Mikita Dog and a Straightedge Pale Ale<\/a>, but Shockk and Dave probably closed the place down. Shockk woke me up with Mork and Mindy on the TV at like 3:30 am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are a ton of people to thank, and it was awesome to put faces to names and voices<\/a>. Bill sure hit it on the head when he said, “If 50 people like your band, well, 50 people like your band!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our Alberta trip in few words Everyone has safely returned to their respective home towns now. Rad Owl had a matin\u00e9e show in Red Deer on Sunday along with the Offsailors and Trashed Ambulance, but we just checked out of the hotel and drove back to Calgary to catch a 2:20pm flight back to Vancouver. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slip-ons.ca\/slip-ons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slip-ons.ca\/slip-ons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slip-ons.ca\/slip-ons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slip-ons.ca\/slip-ons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slip-ons.ca\/slip-ons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4411"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/slip-ons.ca\/slip-ons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4427,"href":"https:\/\/slip-ons.ca\/slip-ons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411\/revisions\/4427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slip-ons.ca\/slip-ons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slip-ons.ca\/slip-ons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slip-ons.ca\/slip-ons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}