[Thanks to ride leader Jill for reporting on Monday’s Dandy Warhols Ride, via the Shift list. See bottom of post for a video of the ride!]
It took an entire day to recover from the marathon Dandy Warhols ride. What was planned to be about a 2-hour event instead turned into about a 7-hour odyssey when Brent and Zia from the band joined us.
The fun began with a short introduction, then we visited the spot where “Welcome to the Monkey House” was recorded. We stopped by Plan B who graciously showed some of the Warhols videos to set up the rest of the ride, and Brent and Zia gave us the backstory on each.
Then we rode through downtown, seeing sites where the band recorded videos and played their first show, hearing stories from Zia about meeting and collaborating with David Bowie, what a nice guy Tom Petty is, and other tales.
When we pulled up to their current recording studio and practice space, we were surprised by being given a complete tour, including the kitchen with permanently attached, intentionally crooked tables (to match the floor) and the gold record hallway. Zia surprised us again with swag for everyone and by supplying the prizes for the trivia contest, which was held next at Slabtown.
After trivia, Zia and Brent invited us to continue the night at a bar on Albina, so on we went. The night ended with all those heading to southeast riding home together around 2 a.m., stopping briefly to fix Brent’s 40-year-old broken chain. Fortunately not one but TWO ride participants had a chain tool on them.
Everyone had a blast and the band members could not have been friendlier to us.
Thanks to Jeff Bernards for co-organizing and coming up with the great ideas.
There are 3 sets of photos up so far: on the Dandy Warhols website, a ride participants’ Flickr page, and from co-organizer Jeff Bernards.
Check out this video that was made of the ride:
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Hey, thanks for posting and for doing such a great job of organizing the ride reports here.
Just one little thing – Jeff was also a ride leader, and this could NOT have been pulled off without him!