The Good, The Bad, and The Painted Toe Nails.

Hello everyone out there in heavy metal land.  Welcome to HAIR IN THE AIR, The Official Blog of 3D In Your Face.  My name is SPADE, and you are now in my world.  I hope you have some fun.  If you are just catching up with us, boy what a whirlwind summer you missed.  This was the busiest summer tour season that we as a band have ever had.  We played close to 25 shows from June 1st to Sept. 1st, all around the Midwest to thousands of rabid 80's Rock N Roll fanatics.  I personally want to thank each and everyone of you that came out and spent your hard earned money to see 3D In Your Face perform.  I want to thank all of the radio stations, newspapers, and TV stations for all the love.  I want to thank all the new friends we have made along the way.  The summer of 2013 will go down as the funnest summer I have ever had.  Unfortunately all good things must come to an end and make way for something even better.  Luckily we have this week off from playing.  Our vacation starts now, but there is no time to rest.  This week we are back in 3D Studios preparing for the next phase of "The Midnight Devils Tour".  Starting on Friday Sept. 13th we will be returning to our home base and our residency at The 21st Saloon on 96th and L st. in Omaha.  Every Friday night we will be throwing the wildest party Omaha has ever seen.  I can personally guarantee you that there is nothing like this going in Omaha.  Every Friday night The 21st Saloon is going to be the place to be and be seen.  The beautiful thing is that you are all invited and you are all getting the inside scoop by reading my blog.  COUNT IT.  I just got the word that we will be putting in a brand new light show, we are adding more originals from the new record, we are adding new covers, and we are inviting anyone that wants to support us to be a sponsor.  So if you are someone or know someone that is interested in getting some free publicity hit me up and we will make this happen.  Also starting on Sept. 20th we will be introducing the brand new 3D In Your Face VIP Table.  Every Friday we will be offering up the best seat in the house.  For the low price of $100 we will not only reserve you a front row table but we will also supply you with 12 complimentary drink tickets, 6 guest passes, an autographed 8 x 10 and tour flyer, and a personal meet and great with the band before the show.  How cool is that?  This is a first come first serve basis.  All you have to do is email me at 3dinyourfaceband@gmail.com for more information and available dates.  

Now that I have the business side of the coin flipped over lets get to the fun stuff.  I wasn't going to write a blog this week and try and enjoy my vacation but I just can't stay away from you wonderful people.  So here is my little recap of our last three shows.  Friday we were in Lincoln for the Totally Rad 80's Run at The Salt Dogs Stadium and let me tell you it was HOT.  The runners looked good and one of my friends even participated in the race.  I have played a lot of shows in a lot of different weather but this was probably the hottest show I have ever played.  So on this tour I have played the coldest show in Norfolk with Warrant at 48 degrees and the hottest in Lincoln at a staggering 100 degrees.  I woke up on the bus Saturday all by myself which was very cool.  We were at Septemberfest in Omaha.  The show was great but the bus ride afterward was legendary.  As soon as the trailer door shut a storm started to roll in.  We knew it was going to be a bumpy ride but we had no idea.  While heading north on I-29 we met the storm head on.  I was riding up front and blam it hit us.  It was raining so hard that the windows of the bus whited out for a few seconds.  I thought that was it we were all goners.  Luckily Hot Rod is a seasoned driver, he slowed down and we cruised right out of the rain.  I had made my peace right there on the bus (not the first time).  We made it to Sutherland by 5 AM and the stars were out welcoming us to this quite Iowa town.

The real story happened Sunday night.  We began our show as usual and everything was going great.  I was doing jump, high kicks, atomic hip thrust, you name it.  On the third song of the second set I was doing one of my trademark spin moves and I rolled my ankle into the space where the two trailers meet.  It made one of those sounds you can hear over a rock band a full volume.  I though "That's it I broke my ankle".  We had to keep going.  I didn't tell anybody until or set break.  I pulled Chappy aside and said I needed help I rolled my ankle and I don't know if I can do the rest of the show.  He grabbed Mike our new lighting guy and a roll of yellow gaff tape and took me to the bus (the operating room).  The pulled my shoe off, put a paper towel around my ankle and wrapped the whole thing up tight like a Christmas package.  A nice smack to the ass and a "Get back in there" and we were playing again.  Luckily for me the adrenaline pulled me through and I finished the set and help load out all of our equipment.  A few hours later we were on the road.  

I have always kind of thought of myself as indestructible.   I seem to have one of those go, go, go mentalities.  After the "Ankle Roll Heard Round The World", I can only go one speed, LIMPY.  Ha ha, no wise cracks.  This story is one for the books.  As I said before I am lucky we have a week off.  For the last two days I have done nothing but sit in a chair and ice my ankle.  Boring.  But everyone has been asking how the ankle feels and it's great to know so many people care.  You want to know how it feels?  It feels great.  I am tough.  Give me a few days and I will be back to %100 percent.  Just sit back and relax for once. 

ALWAYS LOUD

FOREVER PROUD

ROCK N ROLL FOREVER

SPADE