On Tour With The Vandals, Part 2
by: Alex | Thursday, April 17, 2008 | 0 comments
More from Mr. Joe Escalante, Esq.
All photos - Austin Brown
3 shows in a row? Where's the outrage? I thought we came here to paddleboard and watch Fletcher fight with Randy Bradbury.
Two shows in Sydney were great, topped off by Warren murdering a 5/8 scale Spiderman doll until the beans he was made of exploded all over Brooks' drums.
Tour Concierge Austin Brown arranged some boards from Channel Islands for us to use at Manley Beach -pretty crowded on a Saturday but the water is so much cleaner here than at home it's just nice to be in it.
Melbourne Festival hall on Sunday had a lot of Vandals fans but they were a little too polite until we pointed out our amazingness.
Not too polite was the drunk girl that came back stage to complain that Warren performs with his clothes on. We never complain about that. After Warren appeared on the cover of the Manley daily after a certain Warped Tour show years ago (headline "Concert Outrage"), he's chosen to behave.
Regarding Pennywise's Fletcher and Randy fights they really have evolved into an art form. It never stops from the golf course to the stage to the airport. Fletcher challenges the thickness of everyone's skin, but no one gets it like Randy.
In return, Randy does things like call him Armpit Face and once he had everyone sign a sympathy card when Fletcher had a mole removed.
Joe...
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