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EUROPEAN VACATION starts today! 7.3.08

XHonusWagnerX - 7-3-2008 at 09:15 AM

My flight leaves for Amsterdam tonight at 9:50pm. I have to finish packing, double check everything and then leave my house around 4:30pm. My dads driving me 1/2 way to where the bus is and then the bus goes right to the terminal and we're all meeting there around 6:00pm.

Im bringing my iPhone and as long as I'm in a Wi-Fi area it should be free so I will try to keep updating things as often as I can!



Jul 4 2008 9:00P
Zwischenfall Bochum

Jul 5 2008 1:00P
Parkhof Festival Alkmaar

Jul 6 2008 1:00P
With Full Force Festival Roitschjora

Jul 7 2008 8:00P
KFZ Marburg

Jul 8 2008 9:00P
Kantine Augsburg

Jul 9 2008 9:00P
Bei Chéz Heinz Hannover

Jul 10 2008 12:00A
Exit Festival Novi Sad

Jul 11 2008 9:00P
Musikbunker Achen

Jul 12 2008 1:00P
Anacrusa Fest Barcelona

Jul 13 2008 1:00P
Dynamo Eindhoven

upyerbum - 7-3-2008 at 10:05 AM

Good luck, have a blast!

xChino_Martinezx - 7-3-2008 at 11:29 AM

sounds likereally great vacations, hope you have a good trip, take care and have fun!

clevohardcore - 7-3-2008 at 12:06 PM

DON'T BREAK EDGE AND SMOKE THE WEED. Unless you want to end up like Hostel. Them sick fuckers look for high americans.
:alien8:

XHonusWagnerX - 7-3-2008 at 12:14 PM

we're really only in Amsterdam for an hour or so. Its a flight from Boston to Amsterdam and then Amsterdam to somewhere in Germany. They usually have a show in Amsterdam, but not this time. Im bummed because its a nice city.

defstarsteve - 7-3-2008 at 12:16 PM

have fun bro...

Discipline - 7-3-2008 at 01:28 PM

I'm so jealous.

JawnDiablo - 7-3-2008 at 02:39 PM

You lucky bastard.
That sounds like a killer trip.

DAK - 7-3-2008 at 03:36 PM

I dislike you very badly right now. Well maybe it just jealousy. Have fun dude. Too bad your sXe. All that fine European beer your missing out on.

XHonusWagnerX - 7-3-2008 at 03:37 PM

Getting ready to head to the airport now. More to come soon baring any wi-fi issues!

confused13 - 7-4-2008 at 01:35 AM

See you in H-over - have a nice trip!!

tireironsaint - 7-4-2008 at 06:45 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Discipline
I'm so jealous.

gavin - 7-4-2008 at 02:16 PM

you're missing the history of Stern you know.
its fuckin killer

newbreedbrian - 7-4-2008 at 02:38 PM

have fun honus, i'm expecting some pictures of the trip

thedog - 7-5-2008 at 01:52 PM

have a great time.

XHonusWagnerX - 7-5-2008 at 05:29 PM

update 1:

iphone web & email dont work. finally got to a computer.

first 2 shows were good. today was a weird fest with no other hardcore bands.

tomorrow is With Full Force the BIG festival.

merch is nice and selling well. they did the Bad Brains shirt. the merch girl is cute.

they played Chunks both nights so far!

thats about it. HOPEFULLY ill have more soon.

sorry the plan didnt work out BD, but if I can get you pics I will email them to you!

Discipline - 7-6-2008 at 02:06 AM

I would love to see them play "Chunks."

tireironsaint - 7-6-2008 at 03:55 PM

I would love to see Slapshot play, period, but would go apeshit over them playing some Last Rights stuff. I REALLY want one of those Bad Brains rip off shirts, Honus. Lemme know if we can make this happen.

panzerkreuzer - 7-7-2008 at 11:48 AM

iŽm back from the with full force festival.4 days of bbq, beer and loud music.
slapshot played a killer show.good set, it started with shaved for battle and chunks was played, too.nice surprise.
when iŽm fit again i post some pics of slapshot and honus working (what means standing on stage and drinking cola ;))

XHonusWagnerX - 7-8-2008 at 10:47 AM

Update 2:

Were in Augsburg Germany today. Just got to the club & everyones eating.

The show last night was okay but they expect tonight to be slow.

Merch is selling well.

Serbia was canceled unfortunantly but another show was put in its place.

Sitting in a van for hours on end sucks.

Merch girl is still cute.

RomanticViolence - 7-8-2008 at 11:33 AM

That is awesome honus.
You should bring me back sumthin :)

BDx13 - 7-8-2008 at 02:54 PM

Backstage in Augsburg, Germany.


Live:








Tour manager:

XHonusWagnerX - 7-8-2008 at 03:27 PM

also..... With Full Force was great. Got to see Slapshot, H2O, The Exploited, Biohazard, The Cavelara Conspiracy, Death Before Dishonor & a ton of others.

Igor Cavelara from Sepultura is a big Slapshot fan which was cool! Biohazard gave a shout out to Slapshot on stage.

Max Cavelaras like 10 year old son played drums on a song with The Cavelara Conspiracy. It was awesome to see. They played some new songs and all the Sepultura & Soulfly hits plus a Nailbomb song and the song Sepultura did with Jello Biafra (Jello wasn't there).

There was probably close to 50,000 people at the festival & close to 10,000 in the tent when Slapshot played.

xChino_Martinezx - 7-8-2008 at 04:03 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by XHonusWagnerX
Update 2:

Merch girl is still cute.


haha, that's good to now, if she stay cute or gets even cuter, a picture of her would be cool, if posible, of course ;)... I'm really glad your having a great time, Honus, thanks for the updates, the With Full Force sounded like a killer show, keep on with the joy, bro! enjoy it the most you can!

Furly - 7-8-2008 at 05:43 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by XHonusWagnerX

Max Cavelaras like 10 year old son played drums on a song with The Cavelara Conspiracy.




That's pretty rad!.

MikeCore - 7-9-2008 at 02:31 AM

Sounds like a great time. More pics please :drool:

defstarsteve - 7-9-2008 at 03:29 PM

I was only a little jealous before...
but now I think I hate you, ha ha

Discipline - 7-9-2008 at 06:59 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by defstarsteve
I was only a little jealous before...
but now I think I hate you, ha ha

Spoiler - 7-9-2008 at 07:38 PM

Good for you man...sounds like your having a blast.
I'd love to be able to do something like this.


whats up with that merch girl ? Have you busted a move yet ?

XHonusWagnerX - 7-10-2008 at 03:37 AM

were in germany (big surprise) at a self service hotel. you book it on the phone and then its all automated when you get there. pretty cool!


today was suposed to be serbia but it got canceled so we are in germany for another show. cant remember the town though.

im at pay by the minute internet so i gotta go. more pics as soon as im in wi-fi.

also Panz from the board is going to the shows in friday and sunday so bug him for pics and about getting youz some merch!!

panzerkreuzer - 7-10-2008 at 07:52 AM

unfortunately my pictures from the full force festival were all rubbish, but you can check some on my myspace page.and there you can see how german festivals look like.
iŽll take picture at the next shows iŽll at.hope they become better.
hereŽs my myspace address for those who are interested.
www.myspace.com/panzerkreuzer

XHonusWagnerX - 7-12-2008 at 12:09 AM

i saw panzerkreuzer last night and friday night and he seemed to enjoy the shows plus he will be there on sunday too!

we just slept for about 4-5 hours and were getting ready to goto the airport to head to spain to play at midnight with napalm death headlining. im tired!!! only 2 more shows counting today though.

havent had email from my phone so thats why there are no more pics unfortunantly. plenty when we get home though!!

time to eat something and head out!

Discipline - 7-12-2008 at 12:14 AM

BRING BACK MERCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thedog - 7-12-2008 at 12:16 AM

any chance for some shirts for the thorp crew

tireironsaint - 7-12-2008 at 05:47 PM

Yeah Honus, bring us back some merch. If the merch girl is really that cute I'd settle for her instead, but I really want one of those Bad Brains rip off shirts.

panzerkreuzer - 7-13-2008 at 07:49 AM

i donŽt know take the merch as he wants, because the merch is done by a company for the band.
iŽll talk to him tonight what he can do for you guy.
btw the shirts arenŽt cheap, they 15 euro, so that are about 20 dollars.
@saint, i can buy a shirt for you tonight and give it honus that he sends it to you.
what size do you need?

tireironsaint - 7-13-2008 at 10:43 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by panzerkreuzer
i donŽt know take the merch as he wants, because the merch is done by a company for the band.
iŽll talk to him tonight what he can do for you guy.
btw the shirts arenŽt cheap, they 15 euro, so that are about 20 dollars.
@saint, i can buy a shirt for you tonight and give it honus that he sends it to you.
what size do you need?
Dunno if this is still possible this late, but if you could do that it'd be awesome. It's an XL and I can paypal you the cash if it helps. Wish I had seen this earlier....

panzerkreuzer - 7-14-2008 at 04:27 PM

i guess the will be online from ragewear.de. if someone is interested, mjaybe i can order some and them to the us.
here are some pictures from the last show of the tour shot at the dynamo in eindhoven, nl.











XHonusWagnerX - 7-14-2008 at 07:47 PM

I'm Home!!

It was a LONG last couple of days.

Saturday we were in Spain. When we got there it was beautiful!! Probably in the 80's, clear and sunny. The show was ON the beach. The stage was literally ON the beach about 200 yards from the ocean!

So anyway.... we get there, goto the beach, see the stage eat lunch (undercooked ground ham patties, french fries & a fried egg - weird!). It was nice out and everything was going well. We went back to the hotel to sleep a bit and then at about 6:00 we head back to the beach. We're almost there and it starts to drizzle a little. By the time we get to the backstage TENT its pouring rain, thunder & lightning! So 7 of us are huddled under this 10x10 tent. Eventually we give up and head back to the hotel to wait for word from the promoter on whats going on. At 12:15 am the tour manager comes in and says "they're ready for you". Aparently they found a comunity theater to move the show to and they were ready to start it. Originally it was like 8 bands, but they ended up only having Slapshot & Napalm Death play. We got to the place at about 12:30 and they played until almost 2:00. We left and didnt see Napalm Death play which sucked. By the time we were showered it was about 3:30am and then at 5:00 the alarm went off so we could head out to fly back to Germany!

There was some sleeping going on during the flight and the van ride to the Sunday show but not a lot. Mark, Choke, Ed and Chris headed to the hotel to sleep once we got there, but I stayed at the club. The Sunday show was great!! We cleaned up a bit and left there around 1:00 to head to the airport in Dusledorf. We got to the airport before 3:00 for our 6:00am flight to Amsterdam.

We had a short layover in Amsterdam. Just long enough for the guys to change Euros for Dollars and grab a soda. We get on the plane for our 8:25 flight to Boston. Well.... There was some issue with the plane and we sat on the runway until almost noon (Euro time)! Then we finally started our 8 hour flight to Boston. We landed and all was well until my bag didnt show up. I didnt get to say bye to the guys because they took off while I tried to track down my luggage (which they will deliver to my house later tonight). After that was settled Ed and I took the bus to Braintree and my dad picked me up and his girlfriend picked him up and now I'm home!

Sadly there was basicly no left over merch to be had. There was a hoodie of one design and I didnt even get to grab one of those :mad: So Im really sorry guys! I can tell you that the band is talking about doing more stuff, but I dont know when or where. I do promise that if there is merch I will do ALL I can to get you some!


Hilights of the trip:

Doner Kabobs (Its a sandwich - if you ever get to eat one... do it!)
Chocomel (its the best choclate drink ever!)
Cute merch girl (I didnt get a good picture of her, but Ill see if I can find her on myspace)
Seeing H2O, Biohazard, The Exploited & The Cavelara Conspiracy at the WFF Festival
Getting to see Slapshot play CHUNKS at 9 out of 10 shows
Coca-Cola with real sugar
Meeting panzerkreuzer who is a really great guy
Choke acknowledging me on stage for the first time in over 50 shows of me working with them
Getting paid to spend 10 days traveling with my favorite band of all time


I have over 300 pictures that I just transfered to my PC, but I gotta get them online somehow, ideally without uploading each one, one by one, one at a time!

xChino_Martinezx - 7-14-2008 at 08:20 PM

welcome back, Honus, glad you made it home safe and had a great trip!

BDx13 - 7-15-2008 at 05:54 AM

welcome home, josh.
remember, travel headaches are part of the 'experience'...and this is one you'll never forget.

XHonusWagnerX - 7-15-2008 at 07:38 AM

thanks guys.... I was suposed to go back to work today, but I skipped out because Im sore, tired and smelly (didnt shower last night). Unfortunantly my luggage hasnt shown up yet, but it looks like it did get to Boston so it should be here sometime today.

So... I have over 400 pictures. Anyone know how I can upload them ALL to a site at one time? I tried Flickr, but I guess I have to many for the 'free' account and was hoping not to pay.

panzerkreuzer - 7-15-2008 at 08:02 AM

www.photobucket.com

XHonusWagnerX - 7-15-2008 at 08:32 AM

VIDEOS FROM THE TOUR....

SLAPSHOT - SECRETS (from With Full Force festival 2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjqmaS5Zdlk

SLAPSHOT - SHAVED FOR BATTLE (from With Full Force festival 2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAIGNM2BfzY

SLAPSHOT - HANG UP YOUR BOOTS (from Anacrusa festival in Spain 2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwOI9gsUm9c

SLAPSHOT - SECRETS & ANOTHER MISTAKE (from Dynamo Club in Eindhoven 2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31MQtS-KmsU

SLAPSHOT - OLDE TYME HARDCORE (from Dynamo Club in Eindhoven 2008)
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual...

SLAPSHOT - HANG UP YOUR BOOTS aka 'The Chocomel Incident' (from Dynamo Club in Eindhoven 2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4zB8tf7l7k

DAK - 7-15-2008 at 10:48 AM

Sweet.