Show Journal 2004-04-22
When we pulled up to the club tonight Dave backed the van up perilously close to a dumpster. As I reached for the door handle and mentally prepared myself to squeeze out between the van door and dumpster a bum’s head peered up, slowly swiveled left and right to survey his surroundings, locked eyes with me and then slowly ducked back down to the safety of the dumpster. It’s sounds awful, but I absolutely could not stop laughing. We still had Dave’s dirty Santa Claus hat in the van (from the bum show last year) and contemplating getting in the dumpster with him to see if he’d say anything. Yes, my name is Eric and I’ll see some you in hell. Anyway, it was early and it was a weeknight but it seems that our crew was out in force tonight. As people started filing in the door I’d find myself saying “oh, I know them” at about every other person that entered. Kinda cool to get so much support for a local show. Spare Lead was up first and was the first time I’ve seen them with their new and totally rocking drummer. Musically they are in a totally different place than they were even a year ago and they were pretty impressive. We were up second and had a blast playing. No matter how many times I see it I can’t get enough of people’s fists in the air and the singing along. It makes me tingle in places that shouldn’t tingle. Aside from the carpeting on my side of the stage that kept coming up in pieces and causing me to nearly do the splits on several occasions it was great. Nuclear Saturday was third and totally owned it. I’ve been obsessed with their last album since it came out, so I had impossibly high expectations. I was definitely not disappointed. Damn, homeboy can sing. Totally cool guys too. Not Long After was the headliner and in an effort to plug their new CD they even raffled off a signed guitar. How cool is that? I hadn’t seen NLA play in about a year and they sounded tight and better than ever. I realize that the 4 NSR bands that played tonight aren’t the biggest bands in town, nor is NSR the biggest label around, but it was damn cool being part of this show and this group of people. I wish all our shows were this fun but if they were then I might not appreciate them.
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