Show Journal 2003-12-04
This show can best be summed up with a quote by Bill Lumberg from the movie Office Space … “mmmmm yeahhh”. The evening started innocently enough with us sitting on the couch and Dave spreading his legs and offering Rick an opportunity to “toss his salad”. Later there was the discovery that the roof of the Meow Meow was leaking under the heavy rains onto the main floor. First up was Clarity Process and they rocked. Very energetic, very technical and very heavy at times. (Also, a pretty darn good CD too.) Anatomy Of A Ghost was second and they really caught me off guard. I had been told about tales of wild, crazy out of control shows but they seemed very subdued and almost kind of mellow. Here comes the “mmmmm yeahhh” part. We were third and within minutes half the crowd cleared out. Dave even made some comment mocking the people that left and upon saying that even more people made an exodus for the door. This was discouraging because the alternative was to stand outside in the 40 degree rainy windstorm. I thought about it for a bit and here’s the possibilities … a) we totally sucked b) we didn’t look cool enough or c) everyone who left was just “over punk rock”. I think the correct answer was d) all of the above. When we got offered this show I thought that musically we were at least in the same ballpark as these bands but apparently not. Gotta love that Portland music scene. Amazing. The ones that stayed are definitely in our ever loving graces for all of eternity and remind us why we do this in the first place. If you watched our set then take a second to pat yourself on the back and say “good job” for leaving us with some small sense of pride to take from this evening. Vaux was last and they totally fucking rocked. Cool lights, incredibly thick sound, amazing stage presence, just an awesome performance that got better with each song. Thanks to Thrasher and crew, the street team peeps, Ang and Ashley, Darin, Camaro Eric, Steve and family and of course Mocephus. Apologies to Michelle. Please don’t cut me.
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