Show Journal 1997-09-28
Another fun Sunday night show at EJ’s. I wish every show was at EJ’s. I’ve gotta take a second to say how good Los Mex Pistols was. Their lead guitar player is bordering on god status. Tonight’s highlight actually revolved around the men’s bathroom. On the wall by the urinal someone had scribbled the “here I sit broken hearted” rhyme (which I’m not gonna finish) and under it someone had written “You shouldn’t be sitting here!” in huge letters. Well … OK … maybe its not that funny after all.
Show Journal 1997-09-26
Bend rules! Period. We had so much fun playing at the Evil Sister Saloon I can’t even begin to describe it. Thrust just plain old rocks …. on stage and off. They played your basic fast, skate punk music, but you can just tell they are having a fun time doing it. We had so much fun hanging out with those guys it was to bad we had to leave. Nigel did pretty well too – with a cameo on drums by Satan. Thanks Bend!
Show Journal 1997-09-16
Another prime time slot at the Satyricon … 1:00 on a Tuesday morning. No pimps spotted this time. Despite the not-so-prime time slot, we did get one unusual fringe benefit from this show …. free slot car races. Some places give the bands food and some give you free beer, but we got free slot car races … go figure.
Show Journal 1997-09-11
Another sold out night at the Stage 4. Hardly. Most of the other bands were really nice, and this was a plus because they were about the only people there besides employees of the club. I must give a special mention to Subincision who according to their T-shirt guy played “the worst show of their lives.” In fact at one point a friend of the band came out and began yelling “you suck!” I don’t think he meant it in good fun either. None the less, we enjoyed watching them roll around on the floor and smash the drum set. Another shot out to 5 Cent Refund for making an effort to promote the Portland music scene.
Show Journal 1997-08-28
We arrived at Suburbia to find a note on the door that said “no show tonight.” So we were kinda bummed that we drove all that way for nothing. We went out to find a pay phone, came back and we see another van parked with a group of people staring at the sign. If turns out they were the headlining band (called 7-X) and they had driven from the bay area in CA. Now that’s a long drive for a cancelled show. Apparently this was the second cancellation on their tour and it just had started a few days before. Anyway, to make a long story short, we called a bunch of places and eventually we managed to get them a show at another club downtown. They are playing again in Portland in a few days and hopefully we can catch up with them again. They were real nice and I hope the rest of their tour goes well. Also since I forgot, I wanted to thank them for the pizza.
Show Journal 1997-07-27
Our show was ok and we met a bunch of really cool people from all over the west coast, but all I’m gonna say is that I’m glad we didn’t get killed.
Show Journal 1997-07-23
Its official … EJ’s rules. Every time we play there or go see a show it always is good. We finally got to play with Bomf! We had been to see them a few times before and were excited about it. Bomf! is now on tour. Go see them. They are great. They are on tour with The Leeches who are so cool they even have a song about farm animals.
Show Journal 1997-07-18
There wasn’t too much to say about this show. 5 bands in 3 hours made for a lot of music. The Kankor Sores were pretty burly, and the Knuckleheads had a pretty good show as well. It seemed like everyone there knew their songs. As for us, we played first so it wasn’t too much to tell. In fact, when the sound guy told us to go ahead and start there were only 2 people there. Of course, they all started to roll in during the end of our set. It didn’t matter though, because we couldn’t see a thing with the cool ‘stage lights.’
Show Journal 1997-07-16
Marty’s Garage is literally a garage attached to Marty’s house and a surprisingly cool place to play. They just open the doors to the garage and the bands play inside. Aside from a cool place to play people there seem to know an awful lot about wrestling. A band called Brody played after us and they were really darn good. Go see them if they play near you. They were from Philadelphia and seemed really nice. Anyway, thanks Marty.
Show Journal 1997-07-07
Monday night … 11:00 … do you know where your kids are? Well they weren’t at our show. I think everyone in town went to see Face to Face. No, actually it was free band night at Satyricon and the turnout was surprisingly good. A lot of people heard us from the bar or outside and came in to see us. I think tonight’s highlight was Bryan bashing through one of his toms in the middle of our set. This was almost eclipsed by seeing a genuine pimp coming out of a nearby building after the show.
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