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Read Day 1 here…

I am going to combine days 2 and 3 since day 3 wasnt really much…

So we got up around 8:30 in the morning and got ready and left Kyle’s around 9:30 to get to the coliseum around 10 when it opened up to get in line for floor wristbands… We got there and the line was not that long at all… we called and found out that they were giving the wrist bands out around 1pm so a 3 hour wait wouldnt be too bad… Well for some reason, all of a sudden the line pretty much got disolved and everyone ran into a huge group… then they set up barricades for the line.. and then everyone rushed into the barricades… it was just complete chaos for a little bit until everyone settled down… It turned out they started giving them wristbands out early so we we got our wristbands around 1pm which was nice…

Since the doors didnt open until 5, we decided to go out into memphis and get some lunch and play some putt putt (side story: we stopped at a rest area in TN and got a pamphlet for this putt putt and apparently it is the largest in the world and right down the road from kyles…) We found a KFC and stopped there and got some of the 99 cent snackers meal… we had to wait like 15min for the stupid potatoe wedges and we ended up only getting a small amount compared to what we usually get (another TN restaurant let us down)… After KFC we drove down to the Putt Putt and got some tickets to ride the go carts… of course i always get screwed and get the slow one… trav ended up passing Dave and keeping the lead until the end… After go carts we decided to do some laser tag for 30 min… laser tag was pretty awesome… our team sucked put as indivudals we scored well… i was the #2 overall player once and in the top 7 the whole set of games… had to play mostly defense since no one else was… While we were there we played some arcade games… Trav beat me and dave and basketball (dave only scored 4 the first game which meant he only made like 2 baskets, so we gave him a hard time…) i beat them both at the shooting the clowns teeth out game…

So after all that it was getting late and we decided to head back and get some baskins robbins along the way… after BR we made it back to the coliseum and got back in line to get in… took forever to get in because they searched everyone… once we got in, we went to go get some 311 shirts and we waited in line forever for shirts to find out that the line downstairs was non exsistent so we went down there and got our shirts and headed out onto the floor…

Elvis appropiately opened for 311 since we were in memphis and he played a couple songs.. and then 311 took the stage… here is the set list:
Elvis
2001 Space Odyssey >
That’s Alright Mama
Burning Love
- Elvis gives speech to welcome everyone to Memphis, birthplace of rock n roll.

SET 1
Are You Ready Intro
Hive
Freeze Time
Beautiful Disaster
Taiyed
T&P Combo
Gap
From Chaos
Don’t Dwell (fan choice over I Told Myself)
You Wouldn’t Believe
Champagne (with bubbles)
Inner Light Spectrum (dedicated to Rob Acosta)
Homebrew
Freak Out (with cyro jet steam blasts)
Sick Tight
Getting Thru To Her
Flowing
Full Ride
I’ll Be Here Awhile
My Stoney Baby
Plain
Creatures (For A While) (with confetti cannons)

Intermission 1
15 person drumline
- played 311 medley
Moon Landscape Backdrop revealed

SET 2
Bass Note Intro
Welcome (with streamer cannons)
All Mixed Up
Mindspin
Lucky
Amber
Crack the Code (with burlesque dancers)
Transistor
No Control
Strangers
Starshines
Rub A Dub
Use of Time
Running
Prisoner
Other Side of Things (with Poi Glow Twirllers)
Grassroots
Frolic Room
Don’t Stay Home (fan choice over Purpose)
Applied Sciene (with cyro jet steam blasts)
This Too Shall Pass (with both Nick and P-Nut playing basses)
Nix Hex
Speak Easy
Large In the Margin
Feels So Good (with confetti cannons)

Intermission 2
25 person marching band
- played Down and end of Six
Mardi Gras Backdrop revealed

SET 3
Omaha Stylee (with intro)
Offbeat Bare Ass
Eons
Sever
1, 2,3
Sometimes Jack’s Rule the Realm
Come Original
8:16am
Down South
Do You Right
Beyond the Gray Sky
Light Years (with stilt walkers)
Love Song
Nutsymptom
Who’s Got the Herb
Hydroponic
Tribute (dedicated to Mark Holt, Blake Roy, and Katrina Victims)
Down
Unity
What Was I Thinking? (skipped due to curfew)
Fuck the Bullshit (with bubbles, confetti and streamer cannons and cyro jet steam blasts)

One word to describe the concert… AWESOME… The best concert i have ever been too…

The concert ended at midnight which techincally starts day 3 here…

So after the concert we were starving so we went and got some wendys… which let us down by not having frostys and putting cheese on travs burger…
After wendys we went and got gas… after gasing up… dave turned the ignition key too far and it got stuck and somehow the key got pulled out while the engine was still one and the starter making grinding noises… Eventually i had to get up front and get the key back in and turn the engine off… Travis instructed dave on the proper use of the ignition and we successfully made it out of memphis…

On the way back i chilled in the back seat which was nice bc i could lay down and sleep on the way back which i did most of the way… all though there were a few scary moments of dave driving… ie him “dancing” and causing the car to swerve back and forth…

But after about 10 stops so he could piss bc he drank tons of liquids… we made it back to blacksburg in 10.5 hours @ noon…

And that was the 311 day 2006 memphis road trip…

The next 311 day will be in 2 years… and the plan is to go to it as well hopefully this time with Mike…

be sure to check out the pictures and mobile phone pictures….

–Jason