Fall tour schedule

DONAVON'S  SHOWS

NOVEMBER 07, 2010

The Venue - VANCOUVER, BC
7:00pm

NOVEMBER 08, 2010

Crocodile Cafe - SEATTLE, WA
8:00pm

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The Depot - SALT LAKE CITY, UT
7:00pm

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Fox Theatre - BOULDER, CO
8:30pm

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Bottleneck - LAWRENCE, KS
8:00pm

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

Blueberry Hill - ST. LOUIS, MO
8:00pm

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

The Vogue Theatre - INDIANAPOLIS, IN
7:00pm

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Majestic Theatre - MADISON, WI
7:30pm

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Varsity Theater - MINNEAPOLIS, MN
7:00pm

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Double Door w/ special guest John Oates - CHICAGO, IL
8:00pm

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Crofoot Ballroom w/ special guest John Oates - PONTIAC, MI
8:00pm

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

Beachland Ballroom w/ special guest John Oates - CLEVELAND, OH
7:30pm

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

3rd and Lindsley w/ special guest John Oates - NASHVILLE, TN
6:00pm

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Bijou Theatre - KNOXVILLE, TN
7:00pm

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

The Orange Peel - ASHEVILLE, NC
7:00pm

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Variety Playhouse - ATLANTA, GA
7:30pm

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

9:30 Club - WASHINGTON, D.C.
7:00pm

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

World Cafe Live - PHILADELPHIA, PA
7:00pm

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

Mr. Small's Theatre - PITTSBURGH, PA
8:00pm

DECEMBER 01, 2010

Webster Hall - NEW YORK, NY
8:00pm

DECEMBER 03, 2010

Paradise Rock Club - BOSTON, MA
8:00pm

DECEMBER 04, 2010

Higher Ground - BURLINGTON, VT
7:30pm

Mustache Manifestos are back

Donavon has teamed up with Contour hd camsto provide cameras for this tours daily updates. They are amazing video cams. Here's a link to the first manifesto. Much props to our video/web/drummer for putting this videos together


http://contour.com/stories/mustache-manifesto-glow-week-1

tour transportation

Life on the bus

      Our days of "slumming it" at the Ritz are over. No more $6 coffees and $18 burgers. With that said, consequently  means no more showers or cozy beds. It's a blessing and a curse. We had a great show in Laguna Beach at the 10th annual Cosmic Creek Surf Event. The folks at Billabong always treat us all so well. This year's event was a costume contest with some great prizes for the best costumes or lack of costume. Some things should be covered up. A loin cloth is not a costume! Cordoba was kind enough to send some guitars and ukes for prizes as well as Doc from Surf Prescriptions gave away a great board.

       We spent our Halloween on our newly wrapped rolling home in which 9 of us will be calling home until December 5th. Our first show of the actual "Glow" tour was in Solana Beach at the Belly Up.  The venue is right across from the ocean which allowed for some much needed surf time. The Belly Up is always a fun show. So many people who support Donny and the band live in that area so it becomes a large backstage party. Thanks to our friend Bonner, who brought us 2 cases of Gentleman Jack and Herradura Tequila, our bus if fully stocked and our livers will be leather by December. All of our sponsors were around for the show. Billabong, Coors Light, Sanuk, Verizon and Cordoba. They are all so nice to us. 

     If any of you get a chance check out Ximena Saranana. She is our opener for the tour. What an amazing voice! Ximena has a new song out with Jason Mraz which is spiking the charts in Mexico. She is the real deal. I hope she's up for a bus load of stinky men. Well that's all folks! Life on the road continues. Speaking of I think the bus just broke down... 

Here we go again,,,

     The last week and a half has been a busy one for all of in Frankenreiter camp. We started off last week with a Fuel TV performance for a show called the Daily Habit. I have mixed feelings about tv. It is always a little nerve racking. Despite the performance itself, there is a lot of security, paperwork and hectic scheduling. It takes hours to prepare everything for the 3 minutes of fury for the actual show. It's always fun to be on those movie lots and pass by sets being constructed and deconstructed. We saw the set of "Chicago" being built.  Tuesday we performed on the Jimmy Kimmel Show. That was a blast! Everyone including my wife and Jimmy Kimmel were wearing stick on mustaches. It cracks me up to see all those silly staches out there in audience.

    We were spoiled for the rest of the week with swanky hotels in Hollywood. Donavon was kind enough to put Catherine and myself in the Graffton on Sunset Boulevard. Our room came complete with blood stained sheets. Strange! The latter part of the week we spent at the "W" Hotel on Hollywood and Vine. In leu of the $300/bottle table service for Jack Daniels, We opted for the Irish Pub across the street. $3/beer that's what I'm talking about!

     I have mixed feelings about Hollyweird. Everyone looks like a movie star except the stars themselves. Cat and I did spot Chef Gordon Ramsey and LL Cool J while we were out. By Friday we were glad to head down to Orange County. Next stop, The Ritz Charlton for three days. Fun, sun and surfing in beautiful Southern California and home of The Cosmic Creek Surf contest. Woo hoo!

Almost home

    Here we are in lovely Salt Lake City, Utah. The weather is beautiful from the inside of my hotel room. It must be 110 degrees outside. My fingernails are sweating. We are playing a show for the Outdoor Retailer's Convention and Unified Bouldering Contest. The guys and gals are climbing up some crazy looking wall monstrousity for the title of best rock climber of the year. It looks like a whole lot of work. I gave it a go but could not even get off the ground. I guess that's why I play music and don't climb mountains. I have a hard enough time crawling in and out of my bus bunk. 
     Craig, Pete and I embarked on a whirlwind trip out here to Utah via Tokyo. We were actually home for 3 days after the last tour ended. Our Japan trip started bright and early Friday morning with a 6 a.m. flight to Chicago connecting to San Francisco then on to Tokyo. Well United once again dropped the ball and cancelled our San Fran flight leaving us scrambling to make it to Japan for the show. Long story short we made it on a direct flight to Tokyo. Unfortunately our luggage and gear did not leaving us without any clean undies for the  gig. That was a bummer. But the show must go on! Fuji Rock is held in Nigata, Japan on the top of a mountain at a famous ski resort. We played the main stage in front of 40,000 plus fans. It was quite an experience. It made up of for the 30 hours of flight time and 9 hours of bus travel. 
     We are back on the plane in the morning. 5:30 a.m. lobby call! Finally home for a whole week. Time to teach some lessons and play with my hommies and hang with my honey. So until next time stay tuned for more life on the road!

Fuji Rock Nigata, Japan