Show Journal 2004-02-21
My love of the band Zeke has been rekindled and I’d like to thank Dustin and Atomic Productions for making it possible. Zeke has always been one of my favorite bands (I’ve got 5 of their CD’s) and since they went on a hiatus a while back I hadn’t seen them play in about 3 years. Needless to say when we got the offer for this show I was pretty excited. The show was huge. Easily the biggest I had seen at Ray’s and the crowd went nuts for all the bands. Since we just got out of the studio we decided to try out some of the new material. Jim was doped up on Vicodin, Justin had worked all day I was running on just a few hours of sleep. I think it’s safe to say that we were a little sloppy. The good news is that since it was mostly new songs I’m not sure if anyone really noticed. Either way I was stoked to be playing the newly finished songs and it felt great to play to such an appreciative crowd. Also, it felt good to play live again since it had been over three months since our last show! Jet City Fix was second and pretty much rocked. Looking at them I was expecting a generic emo-type band but they were a real poppy version of the Dwarves or Supersuckers. Zeke was last and they killed it. My other Zeke experiences were all limited to about 15-20 minute sets but this set was huge. They must had played about 25 songs. Granted they are all 1-2 minutes long but holy hell it was insane to watch. Zeke’s singer has to be one of the most bad ass guitar players ever. I can’t even explain it. All you can do is throw the horns, do the finger rolling thing or just stop and say holy shit. It’s insane to see in person. Anyway, thanks to the Richland crew for showing up early, the Atomic City folks for having us on this show and those who traveled from far and wide to check out this show.
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