Show Journal 2004-05-11
I had been warned that the Black Forest was “a freedom rock kind of bar”. I had visions of wood paneling, neon beer signs, dartboards, and those video poker machines with the naked girl pictures on them. I was surprised to find that it was clean, had a stage with lights and was populated by reasonably cool looking people. The Wobblies were first and pretty entertaining to watch. We were second and got a pretty lukewarm reaction. No one really left and they clapped and cheered, but then again no one really moved either. Of course when was the last time we played a bar in Eugene? Exactly. The Independents were third and Dave absolutely loves this band. After our set Justin and I wandered down to the Circle K to get some drinks. After the clerk tried to sell us a copy of Legally Blonde 2 we slowly wandered back to the club. Real slowly. In fact we missed the Independents. Dave and Jim both said they were real good so we’ll have to take their word for it. I still can’t believe I totally missed them. PB Army was last and was pretty rocking. Under normal circumstances they might have been more rocking but it was 1:30 in the morning and for me no one sounds really good that late. Thanks to Evin for the show, Jessica for the roadie skills, Conor for his quick yet terribly inefficient microphone repair, and to Darin and Tim for driving from Newburg.
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