Written by GE 138. Hahahahahaha... this show was funny... especially at how Pitt was HYPED about seeing the Psychedelic Furs. Surprisingly, they sounded really good... and it was very strange seeing Mr. Butler sober and actually SMILING!!! WTF? Anyways, we had some free tickets for this show courtesy of Balcony Lights, Thank you very much, so we all met at the Club House... had some drinks... and drove to the H.O.B., which is within walking distance of our nest. We hung around outside the H.O.B., feeding the slots, and I was laughing at how many people were just giving away tickets for this show. If you ever have nothing better to do, try hanging around the entrance of the H.O.B. and scamming free tickets for the nights show. We all walked into the H.O.B.. and quickly found our way to the bar. As soon as we got our drinks, the Psychedelic Furs started playing from behind the closed curtain, and a big roar went up from the crowd as everyone recognized the opening song Love My Way. The band proceeded to play all the hits... a few obscure ones... and although they never played Pitt’s request of I Just Want To Sleep With You, they did play mostly what the crowd wanted to hear... Pretty In Pink... Mr. Jones... President Gas... Here Come Cowboys... etc. They sounded good. I was seriously amazed at how Richard Butler was acting on stage. Long gone are the days of him being all drunk and stumbling around and forgetting the words... what a trip. I’m glad for him. He looked like he was having fun up there. As I was standing there laughing at how silly everyone was looking while rocking out to the band (one dude was throwing up GANG SIGNS !!!), who do I run into but Talitha, a friend that I haven’t seen in like 7 years... wowsers... was she a sight for sore eyes. Once Pretty In Pink was over, so was the show pretty much, so we left to go grub some 99 cent breakfast and to practice. It was an OK show, but only cuz we didn’t pay for it... HA !
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Written by GE 138. I seriously cannot believe how GREAT this fucking show was... the bands were good... and the fact that soooo many people were just hanging out waiting for Knife Fight to play tells you something about how great this band is. They were definitely worth it. This was a cool gig. I thought I was late when I showed up at 7 but apparently Marco just said the show starts at 7 to get everyone there by 8, that crafty bastard. So I hung out with Pitt and Bryan and his gaggle of girls that surrounded him and his cool looking new band shirt and just waited around for the first band Jesus Fuck The Sun to begin. Both me and Bryan lamented about how we could have been playing this show, since Mr. Pitt was standing right there, and the only reason why we didn’t play this gig was ‘cuz he was going to that stupid Sex Pistols farce going on at the Hard Rock... boooooooo! Oh well... I guess this means that Bryan can go to his precious Radiohead gig in San Diego, which just happens to be the day that we’re playing with the $wingin' Utter$ & Youth Brigade. Phooey. When Jesus Fuck The Sun finally did play, I was kinda digging their Screamo Metal vibe, but I think it had more to do with the fact that their bass player was so cute than anything they were playing! lol She couldn’t play her bass very well, but still... I heard a couple of good lyrics every now and then and it was funny watching the drummer playing his ass off hitting them blast beats like he was. I was gonna take Pictures of the band, but I couldn’t stop looking at the bass player long enough to work my camera! Still, Jesus Fuck The Sun (or Paws Of Steel, as they announced while playing) sounded OK. They played a short set and the kids liked them a lot. After their set I went back outside to smoke and schmooze with all the cool people that were at the show. Me and Keil went to the store for some cerveza mas fina and came back and slammed them down as we both waited for his band The Weirding Way to play. Once they were set up and ready, the Weirding Way just fucking ripped through a shredding set of Metalcore Noise Thrash that sounded really really good, despite the fact that they have no bass player. I spent most of the set just staring at Keil and laughing out loud at some of the sick shit that he plays on his little tiny drum kit. And those mini-cymbals he uses for accents... hahahaha... Genius. I guess it was a good thing that he quit the Loud Pipes to join this one (as Bryan pointed out to him mid set). He seems happy playing drums, and he's so good at it dammit! Since this was the first time I saw the Weirding Way, after all the crazy things I had been hearing about them, it was good to see that they lived up to the hype. Jess is a madman up front and Cheeze just plays some crazy ass guitar licks that Keil just makes even more crazy with his blast beats from Hell! The crowd was loving every minute of it, and even though Jess was sick as a dog, and Cheeze was having gear difficulties, they played a great set. After the Weirding Way's set both Bobby & Marco told me that Knife Fight was like 80 miles outside of Vegas, and wouldn't be here for at least an hour... FUCK! Now what the fuck was gonna happen? Bobby assured me that the band would play, so me and Rick and Mike from Curl Up And Die and my personal theme music Judy went outside to kill some time... drink some beverages and wait for fucking Knife Fight! Everybody just kind of stood around partying. Since there was sooooo much time to kill while waiting for the rest of Knife Fight to arrive, not only did Jesus Fuck The Sun get up and play again, but there was also an appearance from the Mother Fucking Maniacs, playing without Hank, one of their lead singers, cuz he was either too drunk to play or he was too interested in the cute blonde with glasses he was chatting up to sing. In any event, Spencer took the reins and led the trio through a rather interesting set of Noise and Chaos that only the Mother Fucking Maniacs can do. They played and played and played, whether people wanted them to or not. It was funny when Marco & Bobby both tried to get the band to stop playing after a bit, and Spencer playfully refused to give up the microphone, keeping up screaming until the plug was pulled on the PA. It was a cool set, but even after all that, the band still wasn't here. The mood was starting to turn ugly. It wasn't like anybody was waiting to see Knife Fight or anything, right? You see this guy to the left here, beating the crap out of his drum set... that's Graham. He's also the guitar player for Annihilation Time. He reminds me of Jon from Clawhammer - he could be his little brother he looks so much like him! The reason why Knife Fight couldn't play as scheduled was because Graham decided to ride in the Annihilation Time van, which was overheated somewhere in the desert between here and L.A. Boooooo. He's pretty good as a drummer, but oh so much better as a guitar player. Think Greg Ginn on crack. He's the power behind Knife Fight's brand of old school Punk Rock, and a totally cool guy to boot. Or so Marco tells me anyways... heh heh heh. Anyways, after a bit the overheating van finally pulled into the Balcony Lights parking lot, and everyone inside piled outside, and after a round of apologies Graham went inside to join his band mates who had been waiting for him to show up for minutes, if not hours. Knife Fight set up quickly inside Balcony Lights and the band just fucking ripped through an amazing set that had them playing the entire first side of their single as the opening barrage against the kids who had been waiting for over an hour and were just going ape shit while the band played. The place was getting rowdy and people were getting hurt. Amanda made the mistake of wearing open toed flip flop sandals to this gig, and as soon as Knife Fight started she quickly sought higher ground, away from the pit that was just going full tilt. The bands classic Negative Approach / SS Decontrol sounding tunes are such a breath of fresh air in today's lame ass so called "real" Punk scene, that it's hard not to like them, and it's cool that people made the effort to check out this fantastic band. They were kicking ass and not taking prisoners. It was sooooo much fun to be amongst Friends who were singing along and circle pitting to the beautiful sounds that Knife Fight were spitting out... such Angry, Hate filled Punk Rock... it was like all Bliss and Heaven. I haven't been so hyped on a band in a long long time, and Knife Fight is definitely worth all my praise and adoration. Afterwards I tried to talk to the singer Jon about merch and possibly doing an Interview, but he was so tired and out of breath that he couldn't even stand, much less talk! The whole place was still abuzz over what had just happened, and at how short, fast and loud the band was... it was definitely a moment to remember... one of those I Saw Them Back In The Days kinda thing, ya know? Last but not least were Annihilation Time, playing their Blast / Black Flag style of Punk Rock that I didn't really care for, but some people at Balcony Lights really did, even though the band were hella sloppy and the singer was drunk and obnoxious and acting all stupid, blowing it big time. I loved it when Bobby Franks grabbed the 2 Heineken beer bottles that the singer of Annihilation Time was tossing around inside Balcony Lights (spraying beer everywhere... even on Patrick's schoolbooks) and throws them into the trash, only to have some drunken dumb ass kid grab the bottles out of the trash and hand them back to the singer, who looked mighty sad that they were empty. What an idiot. It's never cool to spray beer all over a record store d00d! I quickly grew bored of Annihilation Time and went back outside to socialize some more and gab with everyone else about how good Knife Fight were. After the show I met Chris Shakes while buying a shirt from Jon Knife Fight and watched Bryan and Gustavo try to out trick each other on their skate boards while I was just hanging around. It was a great night... everybody had a good time. I promised Rick and Pulsar that I'd give them rides home, and after dropping both of them off I drove to my house a happy man. If you missed this show, you sucked big time, and should be ashamed of yourself. Knife Fight just like, totally blew my mind. Literally! ;-) For more Pictures of Annihilation Time, please click here. For more Pictures of Knife Fight, please click here. For more Pictures of The Weirding Way, please click here. For more Pictures of The Mother Fucking Maniacs, please click here. by GE 138 This isn't really a Show Review, per se, but more like a story about how me and Jesse & Roxie spent this interesting Saturday night. We were sitting 'round at home bored off our asses, and decided to check out the night's festivities at some Local house party. After grabbing some Pale Ales from Smith's we headed off to the party figuring we were fashionably late, but we were cool with that. We had to park like 4 blocks away from this place, and as we were walking up to the place there were tons of people just hanging out and partying near their cars and on the neighbors lawn and anywhere else that they wanted to. Nice. We got there and ran into so many people we knew and are friends with it's not even funny. The place was pumping. Hank told us he got beat up in the pit during The Weirding Way's set, and showed me his fresh anti-peanuts tattoo. lol Amanda picked my nose for me as I walked to the garage to get high with everybody else in there... anyone not smoking in the garage (like Brett & Roxie & Bryan) was getting a contact high, that’s for sure!
After that I went out and watched Hank Musgrove And The Mother Fucking Maniacs play and just fuck shit up... both Spencer and Hank were in prime form throwing furniture around and rushing into the crowd of people and just knocking them down left and right, forcing interaction between band / audience. Cool stuff. The band was fantastic and played a too short drunken drugged out set. After the regular guitarist / drummer left, our ex-singer Keil jumped back behind the drum kit and Patrick (Pulsar to his friends) got up and started SHREDDING some riffs on the guitar! Looked like he was having fun! I went back outside to people watch and talk. Besides the fact that Spencer kept annoying everyone by trying to get them inside, it was a great party. No Living Room Boxing Championship, though, but everybody had some interesting combinations they wanted to see wrestle (Me vs. Hank? WTF?) We left before the cops came and ended up grabbing some cheap eats from T.G.I. Friday's on the way home. Grub. A very nice Saturday night indeed. by GE 138 Where do I begin to tell you how FUCKED up this show was from the get go? As soon as we walked into the Huntridge it was complete tough guy attitude from all the Psychobilly wankers that were in there, with their gay ass looking hair and their stand up basses. They all thought they were just the hottest thing ever, and I just had a really bad feeling that it was gonna get real ugly before it got pretty, ya know? And then we found out from Tom that instead of 3 bands on the bill, it was now bumped up to 7! What the fuck was that all about? Apparently some bands weaseled their way onto the bill, and you can look at the flyer to the left and figure out which ones were supposed to play, and which ones were just being leeches. I mean, these ball-less ass fuckers had the gall to pick on Brandon from Absent Minded (guess they were jealous of his guitar playing) when I was standing around. They were just talking loud and begging for trouble. Fucking pussies. I love the fact that they pick on the one little guy that didn’t want any trouble, ignoring Jesse and I who were looking for trouble and we were both sizing up victims to beat the dog shit out of when things went sour. Fucking Psychobilly cowards... I piss on the whole lot of them. Anyways, Absent Minded were up first, and I have no idea why they were OPENING for Big Rig and the Holy Smokes... who the fuck are those clowns anyways? I heard they were Local bands, and I heard they were AZ. bands... in either case, they shouldn't of been on the bill! Not because they sucked (which they did), but because they didn’t flyer for the gig... weren't on any of the ads for the show... NOTHING! Absent Minded were so good (as always) and people dug the shit out of them. They really are my favorite Local band, and when you consider how young they are, it just makes it all the more remarkable. Absent Minded are an incredible band and play around town all the time... go see them NOW!! Big Rig played next and just totally lost all the momentum that Absent Minded got going with their set. Did I mention that Big Rig sucked? Good. Holy Smokes were up next and the only thing that made them different than all the other Psychobilly bands that were playing was that they had a harmonica player... big whoop. Did I mention that they sucked as well? Good. We were up next and we proceeded to fuck shit up Loud Pipes style, although nothing got broke, except for my drum sticks! I didn’t think that the crowd was going to like us that much, but the pit was raging our whole set, and all the people who were outside during the previous 2 crappy bands came in to watch us go off... it was so great!! We dedicated the set we played to the memory of Bruce Lee, and to the anniversary of the Apollo moon landing... and Jesse gave a special shout out to some friends in attendance as well. I thought we played a great sounding set, and a big Thanks to all the people who pogo and slam around and pump their fists in the air to us when we play and who know the words to the songs better than Bryan does! Just kidding. Black Rose Phantoms were up next and I cannot stress the fact enough that they sucked! Pathetic band with a fucking weak ass sissy drummer backing a bunch of stupid looking Psychobilly fucks trying to play like 7 Seconds... talk about an identity crisis! If it wasn't for the fact that they were using the same equipment that the Nekromantix were using, they also would have / should have been the opening band. Did I mention that they sucked? Good. Even though they too were sharing the same equipment with the Nekromantix, it took forever for Lobo Negro to start playing, and believe me, it wasn't worth the wait. They're from CA., and they had the biggest bunch of pricks / friends / wanna-be tough guys with them, but the funny thing is, once those fucks saw us play, suddenly they lost all their attitude and swagger. Guess they were shocked at how violent and scary we are when we play, or maybe it was the fact that they saw that we walk it like we talk it, hmmmm? In any case... they were a little better than all the other crappy Psychobilly bands that played, but that's not saying much…. heh heh heh. The Nekromantix played last, but I was so sick and tired of hearing all those other crappy Psychobilly bands that I didn't even pay any attention to them really... sounded boring to me. Besides, I was too busy chatting with everyone outside and hanging out eating the ice creams that Caty bought back from somewhere... they were sooooo good! Big Sticks and Popsicles... yummm. God Bless Caty and the plastic tubing that she now has running in and out of her body... she's the best. Everywhere I went people were like "Where are you getting the ice cream from?" ha ha ha It was funny. After a while the show ended and everybody went home or whatever. So to bring this diatribe to a close... fuck the Psychobilly bands that played this show... fuck the pussies in the audience that liked them, or are friends with them, and a big FUCK OFF to the assholes that were in attendance. Why don't you all go die? |
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