Breaking some twigs off in preparation.

I set up the lights last night, finally, and programmed the footswitch and set everything up and ran through the set a few times in prep for the Break a Branch off the Crazy Tree and Beat Your Dick to Death with It tour.

So excited to see how this goes over…and also nervous as hell.

The truth is that I am wildly outclassed as a rapper on this tour - H.W. has been doing his thing non-stop as long as I can remember, and Jesse Dangerously is…well…Jesse fucking Dangerously. I’m not joking. The guy is a monster.

In a lot of ways, if it wasn’t for H.W., I wouldn’t have ever really thought there was much to the idea of me as a rapper. Some of the verses I’m touring with are 6 years old…really time to write new stuff. The genre has progressed so much since I stepped aside. Really, all my claims of it becoming the next folk music are just bearing themselves out. The level of musicianship rappers have these days are astounding. I’m excited to be sharing a stage with Ceschi, a dude that I’ve had the pleasure of being compared to. He’s a testament to the idea that just getting out there and rapping won’t be enough in a few years.

Regardless of how the tour turns out, H.W. has been an impeccable source of stability and keeping things together. If you get the opportunity to tour with this cat, know that his years of experience putting together tours has paid off. The guy is on top of shit.

But…I’ll be loud…I’ll be blogging, posting pictures and videos, and wildly communicative…because it’s like I’ve said…I love everywhere I’ve ever been. And that includes home. :)

-Shanathan a.k.a. Shanal a.k.a. the F-18

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