2012-04: Stupid Tricks for Tracks on Tracks

To demonstrate our tremendous suitability as candidates for inclusion on the CBC's "Tracks on Tracks" musical train tour to Toronto in June, (and specifically, our eminent "good fit" as parties deserving of your vote to progress through the second round of crowd polling -- which you can, ahem, corroborate at http://cbc.polldaddy.com/s/new-survey-3 ) we've been going on a whirlwind blitz through the albums of imaginary photos of rail-related gigs the Creaking Planks never played -- but might have.

Don't think we didn't hear you snickering behind our back at how safe and conservative our last two rail visit photos were. Those horrific disasters were done with and we were just ambulance-chasing, you claimed, visiting the site of tragedy after the fact to safely mug at the camera like Langley teens taking Instagram shots of each other in front of a previously burned-out cop car at Vancouver's Stanley Cup Riots! (Yes, that was oddly specific.) Well, we fired up our Creaking Time Machine again to see about pushing the boundaries and came up with something a little more "extreme" for you:

One of our coldest gigs, to be sure, and the sound check was hellacious -- we had the hardest time achieving a balanced stage mix in the monitors. And the green room was, as you can see, quite draughty. But at the end of the night we each took home a cool fifty dollars in cold cash, so it evened out.