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Take a Peek Inside Hutch Harris’ (the Thermals) Teenage Tour Diary

Bonus: check out some photos of teen Hutch.

6:00 AM EST on January 11, 2017

In 1995, I went on my first real tour: from San Jose to Portland and Seattle. The band was called Magpie; we were a folk band that played in the punk scene. I sang and played acoustic guitar, and my good friends Craig Crisler and John Gerken played drums and bass, respectively. We sounded like the Violent Femmes covering the Misfits. I was nineteen.

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