New Pleasure, yeah!

So yesterday Oscar's roommate Chris gave us a lift to Downtown Nashville. We strolled down Broadway hearing live music coming out of almost everyone of the socalled Honkytonks.. Got some breakfast at a Deli, and moved on to the Country Music Hall of Fame. It was pretty cool, saw Elvis' Golden Cadillac Limousine, one of Johnny Cash's many black suits and his black guitar and a bunch of stuff belonging to all the famous country musicians. Then we went north and dared each other to roll down the state Capitol hill. People must have thought we were crazy, but it was fun... after acting silly we continued to the Farmer's Market, got some delicious fruits, had a nice lunch and bought Oscar his missing strainer haha...

Coming home, we got some beers (yes, the fake ID worked man!) and came back to Oscar's air conditioned place, after walking around all day in the Southern Spring heat. Then we witnessed a great rehearsal in the living room with Oscar's band New Pleasure. They're a punk rock trio with Oscar on the bass, Chet on guitar and vocals and Steve on the drums, and they sounded fucking good. During the rehearsals three girls, also couch surfers, arrived.. So it was a full house with a lot of good people around. At night Oscar invited us to New Pleasure's show at a little venue called The End. Oscar sneaked us in as the band crew carrying his bass and amp, so they didn't ask for ID's and we got a stamp allowing us to drink without any problems, yeah! Three bands played before Oscar's band. They sounded good, but when New Pleasure came on stage, our mooths shifted a couple of gears up and the atmosphere became awesome! We didn't have the camera with us so we haven't got any footage to show you.. Too bad, for you and for us, but the experience will definitely stay imprinted in our minds for a long time! Afterwards we went to an after party at Chet's house. It was cool and after several hours having a great time we went back to Oscar's place to sleep - well needed! Great night indeed!

Today we woke up quite late, very hung over and have basically been hanging around in Oscar's house allmost all day, avoiding the heat and just listening to the vinyls - including New Pleasure's EP several times. But we still managed to visit Studio B were Oscar works (normally it's not just possible to visit it, but we had contacts!) - a studio were some of the best country singers have recorded their music. Kris played on the piano Elvis Presley recorded some of his tracks on but wasn't allow to buy! We have some pictures, but they still need to be uploaded from the camera - we'll get to that one of the next couple of days! For dinner we went to a place called Prince's Hot Chicken - we got half a chicken each with medium hotness - thank god we didn't choose X hot! With our noses dribbling and mouths burning we fought our way through the meal! Delicious, but hot and spicy!

Stay tuned for new pics and new tales about our trip!
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Cheers!