Show Journal 2002-11-15
Long night tonight. We arrived at 7:00, watched 4 bands and didn’t even start playing until almost midnight. The Laxatives were fun to watch and earned many punk points for smashing a guitar on stage. Rhythm of ’84 was depressing to watch, but that’s because they are so damn good. You either don’t get into them at all or your jaw is on the floor when they play. Mine was definitely the latter. I missed 95% of Knockout’s set because we went out for some Taco Bell. When we returned (during their last song) it seemed that about 3/4 of the crowd was outside. I thought it was odd, but the word was that they made some derogatory comments about Rhythm of ’84. Not cool … especially since they play in Longview a lot and even have a L-view native on bass. I didn’t hear it first hand, but if the rumor was true that was totally lame on their part. Near Miss was next and they did not seem happy to be there. They “joked” about the small turnout, cut their set very short and generally seemed irritated. I know they are on a real label and are used to much bigger crowds but it didn’t really seem like they even tried to have fun. The songs they did play sounded pretty amazing so I hope our show with them on Sunday goes better because they seem like they could of/would of/should of totally rocked. We played last (not sure why) and I can’t even begin to thank everyone who stuck around enough. It would have been a very lonely show but you all stayed and made noise and we can’t thank you enough for it. The highlight for me was when Justin announced that ‘Tina’ was a “good song to load out to” when we spotted the other bands moving all their crap by the stage during our set. Thanks to TJ and Chris Reid, bigger thanks to David for the cymbal, biggest thanks to everyone who stayed late and no thanks to the person who had to explain us the meaning of the “red sock”.
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