Hey everybody, first off, I just want to say thanks to anyone who picked up our record this week, hope you're enjoying the sounds and destroying your hi-fi's.  If you feel like adding to that pleasure and got the time, try a listen with a nice set of headphones, Power Hor is ripe with ear candy, no thanks to Mr. Randall Dunn, the man!! 

 

Secondly, I wanted to take a minute to tell ya'll about the second half of Power Tor's exploits and adventures.  I've been wicked sick with some kind of strep throat since we got back, major bummer, but I'm starting feel the groove again, and hopefully Dan and Arran can give you their take on it soon as well.  So SxSw was totally fuckin' awesome!!  Austin was out of control with tons of bands and people everywhere, drunk people...standing outside the club we played, Spiro's, after load-in, we must have seen at least 10 people trip over the curb out front, very entertaining!  The Holy Mountain showcase was great, cheers to all the bands we shared the stage with that night!  We unleashed Loadbath at 11pm to a very receptive and enthusiastic crowd, I remember some people screaming in my face while we were trying to play some of the chill segues in the middle, kinda cool, but kinda distracting too!!  Whatever, I'm glad they liked it, then we played Poisonous Witchball for our finale, everyone went nuts!!  Apparentely we had time for one more, but who knew!  Lots of good people came out and had good things to say, to them we salute!  Afterwards, Boris played a killer set outside that had everyones fists in the air, very good times consuming beer rapidly!  The next day we played in the afternoon the ovrcast stage outdoors, lots of cool bands, but that's mostly who was there, still it was nice to feel the wind through the hair whilst bangin' away...damn we got some sun in Texas, very nice for a change!  Shane set us up with Ira from Anoydyne who proved to be fantastic host number 5 of tour, much thanks to him for his hospitality!  Power Tor decided to power out of Austin at 11.30pm on a Saturday night to make the drive to San Diego, everything was going fine until about 5.30am when what seemed to be our transmission at the time, totally konked out. Shit!!  As soon as we go 35 lil' kimchi started pissin and moanin' what the fuck!!  So we make our way slooowly to El Paso, and get there around sun-up, make the calls, only to find out no shops are open on a Sunday, probably because everyone is Catholic, great, now what?  Evaluation of the situation tells me that if we sit here and wait for Monday, we'll never make that show in San Diego, well, we can go 35mph, if we can find a safe backway to Tuscan, we can get there by 10pm and have a fighting chance of making the show, so we did...and we drove...35mph...for 12 fucking hours...through the new mexico and arizona deserts...we got stopped by the border police, not once, but twice, wondering why we were going so slow, but they let us go, no thanks to our reasonable excuse of a busted transmission, and we were left wondering how on earth we didn't get searched, and very glad we didn't!!  We stopped in a place that was straight outta texas chainsaw massacre, we thought we were doomed for sure, if only you could see this place you'd agree that your life was in danger as well...I had my knife, so I wasn't too scared, but I'd say overall the scariest thing about that place was the sandwich ben bought, smelled wierd!  inside the store none of the coolers worked, but there was a bucked of iced beverages, hallelujah!  When we got closer to Tuscan and our phones came back on, I was able to get some technical support from my uncle duke, who guided me to the conclusion that our transmission was not in fact fucked, but perhaps the overdrive, which you must turn off everytime you start the van...and presto!!  We can go 60mph?!!  Wtf?!!  Oh well, we did get to see some beautiful country, and what a long-ass day, but that rules, so lets go to San Diego!!  When it came time for the show there, some kind of cosmic force came over us I think due to the overwhelming odds we triumphed against, and we proceeded to kick more ass than on the entire tour thus far!  Shane got it all on video thankfully, but holy shit we were nailing it, the birth of a new band it was!  We laid that room to waste, and had a blast doing it, I don't think there was hardly a moment that heads weren't rocking.   Travis and Troy from Cattle Decapitation were great hosts and we had a blast partying down with them...I still have to try an adventure in beer bonging that Troy gave me blueprints for called the "ultimate warrior" you can imagine its gonna be pretty good...kimchi struggled along and we made it to LA for the second time to play a place called the Mountain Bar, loading gear up stairs is no fun, but it was worth it, great show that night as well and a great crowd.  The new Earth documentary was featured, and Jenny and Anna from TV Eye were doing a special DJ set that was totally rad!!  Laurel from Cold Sweat records put us up that night and we had a blast drinking wine and partying at her killer spread 'til the we hours of the morning.  We got a good breakfast and headed to SF for our last show before returning home, everyone was pretty banged up from two weeks on the road but we powered through and crushed regardless...Power Tor powered home and we had a great kegger party on Saturday, thanks to everyone who came to help us drink that beer!!  We had a blast!!  That's my piece for now, its tough to be brief when there's so much to talk about!  I could go on, but I'll let my bros take care of some of the finer details I may be forgetting.  Thanks again to anyone who came out to show us some love, and everyone who helped us out along the way!!

Cheers,

Pete

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