Show Journal 2002-12-06
No sleep till … Bozeman. We actually left for this show on Thursday night. We drove a little past Spokane and slept at a truck stop we have stayed at 4 times before. I was actually able to fall asleep in the roof of the van tonight which was a first. Usually I just lie awake listening to Dave and his window rattling snoring until I can’t take it anymore and begin driving. Day 2 of the drive was uneventful at best. We watched movies and several hundred miles of snowy Montana mountains pass by the window. We got to the club early and met up with Compact 56 who’s drive had not been nearly as peaceful. Apparently Ben drove 99% of the trip without ever stopping to sleep. He said at one point he was so tired he thought he heard an explosion in the engine. There is tired and then there is “I think the van blew up” tired. Amazing. We were all pretty stoked to meet up with CS-9 again because we had played with them quite a few times before over the past 2 years. In fact they recently added a new guitar player who happens to be none other than Derik from STFS who we did our summer tour with. Even more surprising still was when Adam from STFS walked into the show carrying his bass! Apparently he would be playing these shows as CS-9’s new bass player. It totally caught us all off guard and we were all stoked to see him again. Dave started in on the ‘dirty hippie’ jokes almost immediately but we all realize that is Dave’s twisted sign of affection. To make the STFS reunion complete Damon even came out to the show. I don’t think I got a chance to say more than 5 words to him but it was totally appreciated and good to see him again. One question though … where was Bill? The show itself was cool. STD opened up and oddly enough I actually recognized them as they had attended out last two Montana shows. Pretty solid set from a fairly new band. The Front was next and although you couldn’t hear their vocals they were fun to watch. Compact was 3rd and dropped their full contact rock bomb on the unprepared Montana crowd. Adam and Spinelli they took the whole “crowd interaction” thing a bit too far and played most of their set in the midst of pretty tough looking circle pit. I kind of enjoyed seeing them play to a crowd that had no idea who they were and watch them slowly win them over. We played 4th and it was damn cool to see people signing along to our songs so far from home. Definitely as good as … perhaps even better than our last show in Bozeman. Coldsnap was last and I was glad we didn’t have to follow them. They ruled plain and simple. After the show we all went out to eat but I had such a raging headache I ended up sleeping in the van while everyone dined on greasy breakfast foods. Apparently some dude was staring Justin down in the restaurant. I guess they didn’t like his kind in those parts. Afterwards we went to crash at a friend of Chris’s who’s name is escaping me.
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