Huffington Post Recommended Reads for Fall Features Bill See's 33 Days

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Huffington Post Recommended Reads for Fall Features Bill See\'s \"33 Days\"

 

33 Days is the true story of an indie rock bank from L.A., Divine Weeks, on their first ever tour through North America in the 80′s as seen by author Bill See, who was the lead singer. It's the day by day journey of four guys in a smelly van with no windows in the back, staying at dive motels or crashing on someone's floor every night, eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to stay alive every day, and once in a great while getting to achieve the transcendence of really connecting with an audience at a gig where they are usually opening the show for the headlining band. This is the tender, often heartbreaking, and beautifully realistic story of a band taking its first steps into the real world. 33 Days captures perfectly the disconnect felt by the band members from everyday reality during their travels: "As we make our way out of Portland, we experience the completely alien concept of doing exactly what we want to do while the rest of the world carries on with their dull and dismal Saturday morning errands… For us, it's back on the highway to follow the breadcrumbs left by our heroes in this sort of parallel universe."