Folsom / The Hoods / Stabbed In The Throat / The Loud Pipes / Seventh Star @ The Hammer House6/18/2003 by GE 138 Very strange gig. We get there to find out 2 other bands had been added to the gig... and that Bryan's car broke down on the way to the show... nice. I didn’t really pay much attention to the opening bands, except to catch that they were from Florida and they played very Metal sounding tunes, which was pretty much the theme of the evening. What we were doing on the bill I don't know. Anyways, once Bryan finally shows up we set up real quickly and start to play... short set but it sounded good. Didn’t seem to go over too well with the Hardcore kids, but what can I say? We don’t play music to swing your arms around to... we play PUNK, which means you're supposed to slam and pogo, doesn’t it? Anyways, City Life was there taking pictures of us and interviewing Jesse and Roxie for some story they're gonna be running on The Loud Pipes soon, so keep an eye out for Miss Roxie on the cover sometime in the near future. After us Stabbed In The Throat played some scary tough guy Hardcore which the kids were eating up. Some Good Charlotte look a like was hanging from the rafters during their entire set. Why I don't know. A quick turnaround brought the Hoods on, and although they were the best band of the evening, it was very METAL sounding and I was just bored to tears falling asleep during their set. Sorry guys. I just wasn't feeling it. Folsom was up next and just proceeded to rip shit up with their Metal sounding Hardcore tunes, and it was sick to see. Kids were dancing... arms were flailing... people were having fun, and that’s all that matters. In case you haven’t figured it out, I don’t like Metal, but the kids nowadays do, and they were digging it, so what do I know? It was a good show for the Metal heads... bad show for the Punk Rockers.
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by GE 138 It’s my website, and if I wanna take up more space in it to tell you what a piece of shit this Keith guy from Skratch Magazine is, and how badly he fucked us over on this show, I will dammit! You see, we’re The Loud Pipes, and doing things the hard way comes naturally to us... Adversity is our middle name. It’s just how we Rock, OK? So we pull into the Ralph’s shopping center where the club / restaurant is located, and we check it out. The club has a great layout, with a bar on the left side and a restaurant on the right. The stage is big and it even has monitors! Wow! Me Hank and Jesse venture in to ask about the gig and what’s going on and the employees have no idea of what we’re talking about. Now this is a really nice Italian restaurant, with a helpful staff, and they’re getting ready for the Father’s Day rush of business (people were already showing up to eat dinner, and I over heard the Hostess tell someone on the phone that they were booked solid). This is not looking good. After we’re taken to the restaurant side of this establishment, the Hostess calls the owner of the place, who tells us that Skratch Magazine called up and asked about doing a show, but that was all... no confirmation... no call back... and the owner never heard from them again. Isn’t that just awesome? A so-called big time "National" Magazine decides to put it’s name and reputation on the line by sponsoring a Battle Of The Bands, and then drops the ball by NOT EVEN BOOKING THE FUCKING VENUE??? Now this wouldn’t of been so bad if the bands would have been told about it, since it was obvious that Skratch Magazine and this idiot named Keith knew that THERE WAS NO FUCKING SHOW! But I can only speak for us, The Loud Pipes, and say that no one ever called to cancel the show... not the Promoter, not the Magazine... no one. If they would have called to let us know, it wouldn’t of been a big deal, we would of never even of taken the time off of work, rented a van, made all these arrangements to get their on time and so on. Fucking asshole promoters. There’s one in every town.
by GE 138 After enduring the day that we did, it was sure nice to just kick back in some club and drink Hefeweizen and check out some cool bands. Too bad CUAD was the only cool band on the bill! LOL Minus (I think) opened the show with some sloppy, uninspired crap which just disgusted me. Fuck them. Next band up was Taken, and I thought they were like a Scream-O version of The Used! God they sucked! Maybe it was the beer and weed talking, but I wanted to hear a GOOD band, dammit!
Curl Up And Die took to the stage and just EXPLODED all over the crowd at this sports bar place... it was amazing to watch! A lot of people just lost their shit when CUAD started playing, with Mike, Gus and Matt all jumping on top of the crowd during their set, and I could of swore that Matt broke his back when the crowd threw him back onto the stage and he landed squarely on the stage monitor. Ouch! Curl Up And Die played all their hits... Dr. Doom... Ted Nugent Goes AOL... You’d Be Cuter... And The Robots Kill... and told this cool story about not being able to play in Utah (some people can’t take a joke) because of their song Utah - The Whoopie Cushion Of America, and dedicated their set to their “Las Vegas friends”... hee hee hee. The sound was great and although the kids went nuts to every note they played, I still think the crowds in Las Vegas rock harder than anyone else when it comes to CUAD. Home town advantage. Just my opinion though. Great fucking set from Curl Up And Die... and see guys, I told you we’d run into each other on tour... LOL Darkest Hour was up next and proceeded to rock the house with some good old fashioned 1980’s METAL. Very Voi-Vod like... latter day D.R.I. with a dash of Iron Maiden. It started off good, but quickly went downhill fast, with even the crowd seeming to get tired of their double / triple picking Metal anthems. Went outside just in time to see Gus CUAD grab some big titty whore’s ass and get into a fist fight with her, which was really funny. She wanted to run him over with her car, she was so pissed off. Gus didn’t care though. He went to get blown by some other whore in the tour van. LOL Ah, to be young and dumb again! ;-) Great show from Curl Up And Die. For more Pictures of Curl Up And Die, please click here. by GE 138 Wowsers... this show had no appeal to me whatsoever. If it wasn’t for Inducir Con Drogas, I wouldn’t of even made the effort! I figured that since they were playing with a bunch of "Straight Edge" kids (some of whom were drinking, smoking, and the stupidest ones had STRAIGHT EDGE stickers on their windshields), I had to be there to see the clashing of lifestyles! I got there just as Inducir Con Drogas was finishing up, but the 4 songs I heard were really good, considering that the P.A. sucked ass in that place. The best part of their set was when the daughter of the Java Joint’s owner went up and asked them for their autographs... it was definitely a Kodak moment! I ran into Hank and Bryan and Brett all hanging around the babe magnet car that Hank drives, and chatted a bit waiting for the next band to start. Pitt and Marco showed up and joined our little group as Halfway played next (I think). I'm all for encouraging the youth of today but man, what's with all these kids being infatuated with Metal? This band sucked... lots of Metal riffs... boring Sidney, boring. Pitt and I wandered off to find some whiskey... Hank brought back the City Life with the Black Jetts in cartoon form on the cover... I like the band and all, but I didn't get it? It was a crap story that went nowhere. What was the point? Seriously? Someone tell me.
After Halfway got through boring everyone, Last Hour In Paris were up next and the sounded so much like Iron Maiden that I thought it was a joke, but it wasn't. The funniest part was that the kids were actually digging it. Sad. The Shotgun Message never showed up, but I’m glad they didn’t. They probably sound like Judas Priest, and I had enough Metal for one day. What a waste of time. The perfect ending to this crappy show was when some straight edge kid took a beer bottle from the parking lot and smashed it up with a sledgehammer he had in the back of his pick up truck. He didn’t smash it like all angry or with any true feeling... no, he just kinda softly and very gently tapped it with the sledgehammer, like a pussy, and the glass just kind of broke and fell to the ground. Guess he didn’t want to hurt the asphalt! LOL Damn straight edge kids... we were all laughing about how STUPID that kid was for the rest of the night. |
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