Show Journal 2001-07-28
Yet another awesome Eugene show. The guys in EPD did a great job of setting up this show … solid lineup, decent venue, ok sound, good promotion, etc. The only bad part was the directions. In fact we ended up driving around for an hour in Eugene but they got enough crap from the other bands so I will spare them any further embarrassment. Plus, if they are nice enough to set up a show and ask us to play … who cares? By the way during that hour we decided that if we ever make it big and sell millions of records we are going to move to Arkansas. More specifically we would like to move into neighboring houses on a dead end street and as Dave puts it we’ll spend our days “drinking beer in the morning, slashing each other tires and basically just not giving a fuck about anything until we go broke”. Sounds good to me. Back to the show. We missed Self Inflicted because we were still lost. Sorry guys. Gray is Grey was cool … really cool. We know Jamie and Tim from the Thrust days and they are still cool as ever. Pretty heavy music and very cool to watch. They don’t sound like anyone else and it’s very refreshing. Tempting Fate was good as always. Their guitar player is amazing, so they always have my vote. Rocking songs don’t hurt either! EPD sounded better than ever before and put on a good show. I think they had the biggest crowd of the night but since they put on the show they deserve it! Outreach wins the award for toughest sounding band of the show. They completely rocked and I’m glad we didn’t have to follow them. Paint By Numbers started off strong but got hit with the broken PA in midset. Due to the technical difficulties with the PA and slow load in’s it took almost 2 hours to get from the end of EPD’s set to the beginning of Dead Even’s. It was beyond anyone’s control and not that big a deal but it ended up sucking because Dead Even had to cut things short. Seems like that happened the last we played together as well? Despite the spotty PA performance I thought they rocked tonight. They will probably disagree but it was a very short and intense set and fantastic to watch. Boy those Mexican wrestlers sure can play guitar! We finally played at around 9:45. The show started at 3:00 and I thought for sure people would have bailed out after 6 bands but everyone seemed to stay around until we were done. That was very, very cool of the crowd and that is why we love playing in Eugene. We got to play a few more songs than usual and people seemed to know the words to most of them. For example the song ‘Holiday’ was never released (it’s only on mp3) and I swear I saw at least 5 people singing along with it. Good thing because Dave’s voice sounded like he had gargled battery acid by the end of the set. Somewhere Scotty Potty is smiling. Never mind. Our special thanks go out to Arne, Conor, Kyle, Dead Even and every one that came out to support the local bands. Super big thanks to EPD for setting up this great show!
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