Show Journal 2000-09-01
Day 15 – Thanks to the person who’s house we stayed at (who’s name is escaping me). Also Justin thanks you for the hockey stick. We woke up to find that the SDS girls had written “I Love 800 Octane” on some maxi pads and attached them to the back of the van. We spent most of the morning contemplating revenge. The silliest idea was to cut open fish and attach them to their windshield wipers. It’s not destructive but it certainly would get a “what the hell” kind of reaction. Today is my favorite drive in the country, Denver to Salt Lake City. Awesome views and I especially love Glenwood Cavern. It’s sooo cool. Since there are tons of mountains and we both are driving heavy vehicles both bands agreed to meet at the first rest stop in Utah if we got split up. We did get spilt up and met them there a few hours later. When we met them they told us they were almost out of gas and had been running on empty for about 30 minutes. The next stop was 40 miles away so we drove behind them and waited for the inevitable. By some stroke of luck, it never happened and we managed to get to a gas station without incident. At one rest stop the SDS kids were assaulted by El Santo, aka – the condiment demon. El Santo has many shapes and sizes and throws many varieties of food, yet the familiar mask and feeling of terror are always the same. Later in the day they retaliated by putting jelly in the van’s door handles. (Later in the evening we discovered that the jelly was put there by Justin … do we have a traitor among us?) Unlike our last visit to Salt Lake City, this one rocked. Burt’s Tiki Lounge was a way cool place. SDS had a difficult night because of the hecklers and people who insisted on buying them shots. I guess being an all girl band they get a lot of that. They sounded a little tougher than the previous nights probably because of the atmosphere. People noticed that they played good and they sold a ton of stuff. We broke strings on 3 of our 4 guitars and Justin broke the bridge on the 4th one. That’s normally not too big a deal but this was all in the first 4 songs. Dave told some Mormon jokes while we got new strings and we finally got our stuff together and played what felt like a great set. I think we always play best when we are agitated about something. One guy told us that was the best show he’s ever seen at the Tiki Lounge. Cool. Thunderfist played after us a laid down the rock like they promised to. I though they played well but their singer said “we must sound like toy machines compared to the sonic maelstrom of 800 Octane.” Sweet. It was good to see Erik again and his new band. Hopefully they will make it to Portland sometime soon (hint-hint)! Thanks again the Erik for setting up and show and the place to stay. Sorry for pissing off your roommates!
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