An EVEN longer day...

Managed to sleep pretty much jetlag free and got up in time to catch the end of the buffet breakfast. After breakfast saw the craziest tradition ever at the Peabody Hotel where they setup a red carpet and parade 5 ducks into the lobby fountain!

The four of us (Paul, Scoot, Tom, and I) set out on a Graceland adventure which was pretty surreal! (Thanks for the tickets Scoot!) We toured through the Presley mansion, garage, trophy room, racquet ball court, and finally the grave. Weird place but I learned loads about the King... (A black belt in Karate I had no idea!)

Then it was off to the venue to start drinking (oops I mean working) Got there and figured out a couple of locations outside which worked well. Had a few drinks with Cody, Focker, Scoot and Paul and then after soundcheck did the session with three quick set-ups.

Went out for dinner with everyone after that where the daring and eating began! After ordering the smallest steak on the menu (16oz!) watched Blower eat a chili pepper whole with a hot sauce chaser. Back to the bus where he then was shot 5 times by a pellet gun. All the while everyone was drinking heavily. Almost show time when I stumbled out of the bus and into the venue to shoot the show. Great show and had access everywhere so the shots came out great.

After an autograph session and pulling out the chosen women for the night about 20 of us poured into a limo and headed for Memphis' finest strip club. Came in put my coat down and then was taken to the back area for a lapdance with a women wearing a pink Borat outfit. She started to do her thing and said you really aren't into this are you? All I could reply was "Not Really!" This is where I asked her why she did this and she went on some long rambling thing about divorced, two kids, good money and in the end I should have charged her for the therapy session! Ended up hanging at this place for hours and after many drinks, fake rock hard tits, and dancing took the limo back to the band's hotel where Paul laid down the highlight of the weekend and challenged the band (Well Blower!) to drink more!! (As if we all hadn't drank enough!) Too bad they had all found female friends along the way otherwise we probably would have pulled an all nighter. It's a crazy world that Hinder live in! The above shot I had to get in shows all the Sex, Booze, and Rock N' Roll on a Sunday nonetheless!