Show Journal 2004-06-18
I’ve stated that we love playing in Richland about a dozen times before but it still rings true. Toxie was the opener and we love Toxie because 1) they are named after the Toxic Avenger and 2) they cover ‘Kelvis’. They rocked it with a short, fast songs and a nice assortment of covers. Their drummer is crazy fast too. It’s kind of scary. Compact 56 was next and tore it up as they always do. The word on the streets is that they might be taking some time off to regroup and reorganize. Since that’s the case I’d like to take this small opportunity to say thanks to one of our favorite bands to play with and people to hang out with. Scary to think we’ve known them since the Animal Farm days. We played last and late and it ruled. I couldn’t believe how many people knew the words to all the new songs already. However in an effort to thwart the super fans knowledge of lyrics we threw everybody a curveball tonight. The past few times we’ve played in Richland someone suggested we play the song ‘Minnesota’ from Swank. We always politely refused, but as a surprise we practiced it for a few weeks and played it at this show for the first time since 1996. I hope they were in attendance because it probably won’t happen again! Good show. Thanks to the people that always make our trips there a blast … you know who you are!
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