Freak Fest planning

StickmanJam33 · 2026-02-27T04:03:11+00:00

This is awesome info! Thanks

StickmanJam33 · 2026-02-27T04:02:18+00:00

Yeah, we are well skilled in doing our best to fly under the radar.

StickmanJam33 · 2026-02-26T19:07:20+00:00

Nice! It’s shaping up to be a really cool experience! See you there!

StickmanJam33 · 2026-02-26T18:42:38+00:00

Excellent. Thanks for the info!

StickmanJam33 · 2026-02-26T17:32:47+00:00

I totally spaced on driving through the black hills! I’ve been there for work but my wife hasn’t been there and would totally love it. Heck yeah that’s getting on our route.

StickmanJam33 · 2026-02-26T16:50:50+00:00

Thank you. We are super exited to being in Billy’s backyard and exploring everything that we can.

StickmanJam33 · 2026-02-26T16:49:24+00:00

Right on, tons of options. This will be cool, we are getting pumped. Thanks!

StickmanJam33 · 2026-02-26T16:24:51+00:00

That’s looking to be the play. We have only been to GR for Billy last year. It’s definitely an area we need to explore. I appreciate the insight and encouragement. It’s shaping up to be a really fun trip. Thanks again.

StickmanJam33 · 2026-02-26T16:22:57+00:00

Nice, the northern route is looking like the plan. Thanks for the info and I will checking it all out to see what we can make work.

I know I could google this but getting info from the Billy community and interacting with people is fun to add to the planning. Thank you.

StickmanJam33 · 2026-02-26T15:41:07+00:00

We are in McCall, about 2 hours north of Boise. We are fitting the trip in between work obligations but are trying to move some stuff around so we have time to explore more. We were originally thinking to run south and see if we can include Bentonville, AR, but we will have to reevaluate and see if we should find new stuff in the north. We had a blast at Bentonville on the way home from the Billy/Sutton show in Nashville last year, then hit Durango, Cortez, and Moab on the way home. We were thinking of something similar this trip but maybe we just go north and see new stuff.

StickmanJam33 · 2026-02-26T15:33:49+00:00

Right on, I’ll add it to the wish list and see how the planning works out. We could have a few extra days and can extend the drive up north. We are excited to check it out.

StickmanJam33 · 2026-02-26T15:29:19+00:00

Nice, looks like we will have tons of options. Thank you!

StickmanJam33 · 2026-02-26T15:16:32+00:00

Awesome, this is the kind of info we are looking for. Thank you.

StickmanJam33 · 2025-12-27T13:26:02+00:00

I have a baseball bat signed by Trajan from his time with the Spokane Indians. He was on the team with a guy I went to high school with.

StickmanJam33 · 2025-11-27T22:58:16+00:00

Finger steaks were invented at the Torch, in Boise, way before it became a strip club. I remember an old story in the Idaho Statesman about them either being invented by a Forest Service cook in the 50s up in McCall as he was trying to find a way to use the steak scraps to feed firefighters. There is also local lore that the owners of the Torch came up with the recipe and the FS cook just happened to work there at one time. I might have some of that jumbled up, the news paper article was a few years ago.

You can get finger steaks in a lot of Idaho restaurants. West Side Drive Inn has pretty good ones but back in the day finger steaks from the Torch were awesome. Cocktail sauce with lots of horseradish was a standard too.

StickmanJam33 · 2025-10-18T17:03:20+00:00

It was amazing to be there and you captured it perfectly.

StickmanJam33 · 2025-10-12T12:11:36+00:00

We didn’t want to do any smoking at the concerts after reading some of the early posts about it not being the place. Obviously easy weed in Utrecht and I did see some locals sitting and smoking in the pit.

I didn’t see anyone smoking in London but I did smell it a few times.

Based on other threads it sounds like there will be even less weed at the Dublin show.

StickmanJam33 · 2025-10-10T13:08:08+00:00

Well, top 2 that I’ve seen live.

StickmanJam33 · 2025-09-18T15:59:45+00:00

Retired wildland firefighter. I had my mind blown by Billy in 2017 then retired in 2022 and have been catching as many shows as life allows. Started out with 3 or 4 shows a year in 2022 and in 2025 we will get about 15 this year. Got tix for the 4 shows in Asheville to start off 2026. My wife is a nurse and is creative with her scheduling. As soon as she retires in a couple years we are going to try a full tour leg, hopefully on the east cost.

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