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who
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what
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where
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1999-1998
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Yaphet
Kotto
Atom & His Package
Your Mother
Sean Na Na
Charmless
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The end
of Atom's Bay area dominion.
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924 Gilman,
Berkeley
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Friday,
Nov 5
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| Bleep!The
final night of our three day stand with Atom, and I'd say it
was the best night of the three. The kids were out in full force
for Atom, so there was a lot of crowd interaction and a higher
energy level than the nights before. Your Mother was kinda good
too. I had planned on going up early and meeting Tony so we
could drink a bunch of overpriced beers at the brewery across
the street (I've never been there, and since I'm a fucking yuppie
now I better start acting like one) but we lagged and didn't
get up there until about 30 minutes before we were supposed
to play. As good as this show was, it still was nowhere near
the level of MANOWAR's Kings of Metal album. Yaphet Kotto
were so emo that the drummer set up his drumset backwards. Louie
the hessian from Hawaii showed up and he invited us to a party
at his new pad in El Cerrito, but we had a long drive ahead
of us so we took a raincheck. |
Atom &
His Package (!!!)
Gods Hate Kansas
Your Mother
Captured! By Robots
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AK Press
benefit
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Cocodrie
in SF
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Nov 4
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| Ouch!
Ah, it was nice to go to a show that wasn't at Radio Free Records!
Wow! Anyway, I've never been a big fan of the Cocodrie and I
wasn't too excited about playing there, but if we wanted a monopoly
on Atom's Bay Area shows we had to play one cheesy rock club.
After we played I found out the door price was $7, which is
pretty freaking ridiculous, if you ask me. Yes, it was a benefit,
but at the same time there were three local bands and one out
of town band, none of whom had guarantees. The three local bands
weren't getting paid, so how did they justify charging so much?
Even the AK Press people were confused. But that gripe aside,
the show was tons of fun. We didn't totally suck like the night
before, and SF is always fun because people just stand in the
back of the club sipping their $3 beers. Gods Hate Kansas were
really good, the last time I saw them I was bored to death and
I was kinda expecting the same again. I made some friends and
used the whole band's drink tickets to get expensive beer for
free. Ah, the life of a rock and roller. |
Atom &
His Package (!!!)
Emo Summer
Your Mother
Brain Blood Volume
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Show #1
of the Atom assault on the bay
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Radio Free
Records
San Jose
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nov 3
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| Meow?Tony
and I were finally out of Natural Ice, so we had to actually
buy some this time. We made a great discovery, it tastes a lot
better in a 40 than it does in a can! Brain Blood Volume was
great, Big amps and loud drums. I likeum a lot. This was Emo
Summer's last show, so we played kinda long. I had fun. Atom
was decent, but not amazing. He made up for it the next night
though. Your Mother totally sucked ass, I am NOT kidding. This
was in our bottom three shows, down with the Richmond and 1st
annual Zapatista benefit shows. Seriously painful. Everyone
left while we played, even my girlfriend. On nights like this
we just try to make the best of it, but if we suck, we REALLY
SUCK. |
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Emo Summer,
Prophets of Rage, Caraduras, Firme and maybe one more band
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2nd annual
Zapatista benefit
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The Works
Gallery, SJ
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Oct 1st
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| Eeek!The
1st annual Zapatista benefit was horribly run, and really annoying.
I was expecting the same. This time Adam had his stuff together
and put on a decent show. The Works gallery is huge and the
sound there sucks. Every time I've gone to a show at the Works
in the past six years there has been a fight. No fight this
time. Yippeee! Tony and I got sufficiently tanked on Natural
Ice, again. |
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The Get
Hustle, My Dying Wish, !!!, Emo Summer
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you need
to see !!!
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Radio Free
Records, SJ
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Mon Sept
13th
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| Natural
Ice! We were really happy about all the Natural Ice that
someone left at Joe's house after the bike for beerathon. I've
never understood why people bring beer to a party when there
is a keg. I could understand if you bring good beer, but Natural
Ice? I don't understand. Anyway, Tony and I drank a bunch of
the Natural Ice before the show. !!! were amazing, but San Jose
just doesn't understand the funk and only a couple of us got
into the groove. The Get Hustle are the quintesential post-emo
band, exactly what we hope happens to Emo Summer. They were
totally wacked out on heroin, and were playing music that could
only be described as REALLY BAD. The singer was dressed like
a gypsy, and she didn't believe in singing with the music,
she instead sang against it. In theory it works, but
not in practice. My Dying Wish were top notch emo hardcore.
I'm glad there is a good emo band in the South Bay again. |
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Emo Summer,
Yogurt, The Flames, many more San Jose bands
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Bike-For-Beer-A-Thon
an all day drunken punk rock fest.
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Assorted
places around San Jose.
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Sat. Sept
11th
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| Helicopters!
Bike-For-Beerathon is an annual event in San Jose that may have
just seen its last year. A bunch of drunks get on bikes and
go from house to house watching bands play. Its a pretty neat
idea, as long as the ratio of fucking idiots and sane people
is in check. Joe went all out and decorated his garage like
a jungle. Yogurt was awesome. At the house after Joe's, something
caught on fire, police helicopters showed up and someone's leg
was broken in all the chaos. |
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Useless
ID (from Israel), Your Mother, some band from LA and hopefully
a band from Italy
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A free
fun international show!
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Radio Free
Records, SJ
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Aug 28
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| Woohoo!
I've been spending way too much time at this record store. The
show was fun, no one tried to beat us up, and Useless ID was
awesome. This Way Up from italy were cool too, except that they
took a good hour to set up. |
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What Happens
Next?, plus some more bands!
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bandana
release party (for real this time!)
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Radio Free
Records, SJ
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Aug 22
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| dang!
The main problem with shows at record stores is that there ain't
no pit. How can you have a WHN show without a pit? Besides that
it was asskicking. |
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What Happens
Next?
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bandana
release party
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924 gilman
st
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Aug 21
CANCELLED!
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YM Tour
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because
we wanna
(and because we got a buttload of records to sell)
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Oahu, Hawaii
where? ask this guy:
hawaii
guy
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July 26-aug
5th
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| Aloha!
Besides our guitars being stolen, Brad's back becoming very
sunburnt and minor injuries all around, it was tons of fun.
Read more in the Hawaii tour diary, coming soon. |
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YM, Adversives
(from boise!!!)
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this is
another installment in the Boise/San Jose exchange program,
which begun roughly 6 years ago
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Radio Free
records in SJ
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Wed,
July 21
CANCELED!!!
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| UGH!
the bastard's canceled due to, of all things, van problems.
what is with these loser bands and their loser vans? (us included) |
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YM, Rocket
Queens
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a bachelor
party for
The Bouch
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unless
you are a male stripper, a line of cocaine, or a donkey, you
ain't invited so who cares where it is?
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July 10
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| How
long can this go on? not a far cry from last night (see
below). BonneVicci Got Sum in a big way. check august's
pin-up. |
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Rocket
Queens
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Scott Jones
B-day
bring food and get a free dominatrix session, leave only after
you have committed at least one sin, enjoy the make-out room,
etc...
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San Francisco
515 1/2 shrader
(corner of page and haight)
415-750-9673
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July 9
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| Duudddeee!
it was everything a rock show was supposed to be: strippers,
people throwing beer, people cheering in the balconies and flinging
their tops off, knife fights, tight pants, no pants, heavy drugs,
cops, jail, court dates, riots.... |
YM, What
Happens Next?,
(hopefully USELESS ID from Israel!!!)
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learn how
to tap a keg and pack a bong
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Pickle
Patch in Santa Barbara
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Sun July
4th
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YM, What
Happens Next?
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come watch
as we narrowly escape death
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Headline
Records
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Sat July
3rd
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YM, What
Happens Next?
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a trip
to so cal to remind us why we never go there
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PCH
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Fri July
2nd
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| The
Weekend: Awesome. One show ended in a minor explosion, one
ended in smoke, and all involved the maddest pits you've ever
seen! LIFE'S HALT from Los Angeles were TOTALLY RULING!
We were introduced to the L.A. Boogie phenomenon (where once
you enter the LA area your nose fills with big, black boogers),
we played in DA HOOD, Inglewood (where dey up to no good), i
walked into a pole and mangled up my chest, we went to magic
mountain AND hurricane harbor and both bands had new records
for sale. had to say it was a good weekend. |
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What Happens
Next?, Trial, Catharsis, Zegota
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this show
will make you scream "1987!"
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924 gilman
street
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Sun, June
27
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| Da
Pit: Afternoon shows usually aren't very exciting because
it's hard to get into it when it's still light out. But
a few people still managed to beat the crap out of the others
with their wily straight-edge dances and there was fire breathing
at some point, too. |
Rocket
Queens, Cavity,
Ringwurm, Lesser of Two
Dead Air Frequency
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just a
chance to rock, baby!
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Joe's house
in San Jose
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Sun, June
20
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OUCH!
Man o man, was it HOT!!! We had to cut the set short because
Bradley, er Semen Handler, lost control of himslef from the
heat and started peeing himself. And I couldn't accurately
attack the solos because, as one bare-chested fan put it, "[I]
had a constant stream of sweat running off [my] elbow the whole
time [we] played." I think it was the chaps that did me
in. Even Asshole Rose had problems from the heat - much
like wood expands in water, so did his legs and groin, limiting
his sway to only his upper body. And Muff's pants were
already so tight he couldn't even wear underwear before putting
them on, but once the heat hit him he nearly busted out of his
zipper like an over-stuffed sausage. On a lighter note,
both Cavity and Lesser of Two were, in the words of many, "bludgening."
RINGWURM were masterful even though they were minus one git
player. Speaking of RINGWURM guitar players, Ben The Cop
(who, reports confirm, really fucking hates my fucking guts),
has quit the band and sold all of his equipment. I was
going to offer to take his place, but i think that would do
little to improve my relationship with the man (The Man?).
All in all, the show was the best sauna i ever attended.
BTW, Betty's Love Child's last show was last night. RIP. |
Your Mother,
Yogurt,
Captured By Robots
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benefit
for the week-long Geekfest Death Camp
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924 Gilman
St
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Friday,
June 4
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| Oh
yeah! yoghurt is the original HICKEY. them,
combined with Captured By Robots, made this one of the better
shows gilman has seen in a long time. those yoghurt's
still remain the most entertaining people in this genre, whithout
a doubt. i had an excellent time, even though we were
again bumped into the headlining position and eventually only
alotted 7 minutes to play because of recently imposed curfews.
that was good though, because we never broke any strings (heck
we never even went out of tune!), joe and i were the only ones
to get hurt (i bled form four different places, personally),
and i am finally getting used to playing with short hair (it's
interesting how much one's hair contributes to one's sense of
rhythm). |
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YM, Rocket
Queens
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rock, i
guess
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Cheers,
in sunnyvale
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Sat
May 29
POSTPONED!!!
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YM
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Josh's
b-day, again
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Odd Fellows
Hall
in San Jose
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Sat May
15
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| Blah:
we played a less than average set, especially considering
last years stellar performance. but we managed some free
root beer and only minor musical flubs. josh got older
and yet his obvious liking towards us proves he has yet to actually
grow up. notice how these get shorter and shorter? that's
because we get less and less interesting. behold the future
of Your Mother... |
Rocket
Queens
(our G'n'R tribute band)
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Stinky's
Peepshow
where Large & Lovely Ladies strip to live Rock music!!!
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C.W. Saloon
in SF
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Thurs,
April 29
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| MAN!!!
There were big women dancing erotically, there were three back-to-back
Rock bands, there were pinball machines (good ones!) and it
was FUN AS FUCK! I will say that i have done all that
i have set out to do in the world of Rock. tonight i may
retire a content man. |
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YM
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not quite
sure yet
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in campbell?
cupertino?
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Fri
May 14
WE CANCELED
(because of an incident invloving a live chicken and some
Trader Joe's cookies)
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YM, The
Cost, some new form of Soda Pop Fuck You
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because
mikey told us we should play
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Somebodies
produce store in richmond.
They didn't even know we were playing until we got there!
then they wished we hadn't!
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Fri, Apr
30
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| What
you're glad you missed: This was quite possibly the worst
show we have ever played. Top 3 AT LEAST. This time,
though, we drove a cummulative 300+ miles! Few things
could mar the name YOUR MOTHER more than that performance.
It was a classic. |
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YM, Eyesores
(featuring Metalhead)
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THIS IS
TENTATIVE
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Somewhere
in san jose
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Sun
April 25
WE CANCELED
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What Happens
Next? (see Dec 18), Life's Halt,
Gods Hate Kansas
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the place
to be in SF
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Mission
Records in SF
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Sat April
24
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|
I warn
you, the old-school is coming back. Hard.
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YM, Wet-Nap,
Jocks
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pizza and
music. last time i saw a show here someone was stabbed.
come along! if you get stabbed, i'll buy you a slice of pizza
as a peace offering
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La Vals
Pizza in Berkeley
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Sat April
17
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| Yeah:
Bradley showed up and 3pm and shortly went back home.
Joe and Alan showed up a couple minutes later and went cruising
Telegraph Ave. Mikey showed up a few minutes after that
and was waiting outside when I showed up. He had this
look asking "What the heck is going on?!" I didn't understand
until I went in and asked the guy behind the counter of La Vals
who said, "Show's canceled as of last night. Cops..."
No one told us and we all drove many miles in separate vehicles
to play nothing to no one. Joe and Alan returned to find
a ticket on their car with a note from Mikey and I saying "Show's
canceled. P.S. you got a ticket" They failed
to find the humor but we all went to have falafels. An
hour later we came up with numerous new album concepts and shirt
designs and more ideas for the tour this summer. Minus
Bradley, it was actually quite productive for YM. Now
Mikey is going to set up a show for Sean's band (Sean
is the guy who set up this show, and thus the one resposible
for calling us before we drove all the way there) in the middle
of some non-existent place. |
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Joe's Art
Show
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an extensive
showcasing of joe's paintings. a lot of joe's time is spent
on these, and luckily for him, they're even good!
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Not quite
sure yet
ask joe himself
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was april
10
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Joe
has contracted yet another serious virus, this time affecting
(among other things) his hearing.
As you can understand, this sucks
for someone who considers music a passion.
So if you can sympathize let him
know. Write
him.
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Your Mother,
Artimus Pyle (x-fuckface), Deathreat (x-His Hero Is Gone),
Talk Is Poision, Emo Summer (see Jan 24th review)
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hard rock
and cinnamon rolls
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924 Gilman
St
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Fri, March
5
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| Lacking
a new schtick, and having not practiced in almost 18 months,
I was desparate to do something to make this show worth everyone's
while. Without the knowledge of the band or even my lovely
girlfriend I brought Karoline, Grrl Roadie, up onstage to assist
me in making the ultimate Rock and Roll Sacrifice. [Once, in
Brasil, I was sitting at a bus stop itching the back of my head.
I had managed to produce a lemon-sized dread back there after
not combing it for about a year and a half. It was such
an impervious clump of hair that the skin underneath never even
dried. It was gross, but i didn't care. That is,
until I got to a got to a foreign country where different elements
(parasitres, diseases, etc.) exist. This worried me so
I asked Karoline to cut the matted ball of hair into accessible
"strips." After much resistence, the scissors finally
penetrated the knot and what occured could only be described
as a "blooming." The hair opened like a flower and Karoine
said she had never seen anything so repulsive. That was about
four years ago and I was hoping to relive that moment with her
again.] For each song we played I snipped off one dread.
We still sucked. |
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What Happens
Next?
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just a
show
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924 Gilman
St
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Fri, Feb
12
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| The
Dirt: The pit was big and everyone's clothes were black.
There was even a lot of hair there. |
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Rocket
Queens, Iron Vegan (hopefully) and others
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Metal Madness
Night II
GO
HERE for recap of how AWESOME last year was.
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924 Gilman
St
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Sat,
Jan 30th
Postponed!!!
possibly till May1
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Your Mother,
Royal Grand Prix,
Betty's Love Child,
Emo Summer
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all-ages
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Joe's house
in San Jose
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Jan 24th
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| Wheu:
Emo Summer is Alan and his friends being emo. There
was a lot of crying, backpack wearing, zine distributing, $1.50
t-shirts, and, of course, emo. They were awesome.
Really. For as much of a joke as they were, they were
really quite good. BLC are forging headlong into Jawbreaker
territory with a small emphasis on Iron Maiden. We were
"(shrug your shoulders)". RGP were Canadian Rock, and
i do mean Rock. They are on Wrong Records
(as in John Wright, as in NOMEANSNO) so they had a lot to live
up to, and they came through for sure. Besides the choreograghed
dance moves for most all the songs, they introduced numbers
like "I've never been too drunk to fuck, but I've been too drunk
to fucking cook!" |
Your Mother,
Captured By
Robots (!),
Bobby Joe Ebola,
Los Rabis,
Shoegazer
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all-ages
good times
intimate setting
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BJE's house
Pinole
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Sat, Jan
23rd
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| Ahh:
This was our first show in THREE MONTHS were we all made it!!
We were actually pretty okay, even. Captured By Robots
were way better, though, so it didn't really matter. It
was along day spanning into a long night and we had another
long day ahead of us. I went to my best friend's birthday
party and never showed up because i was too tired. I ate
cereal instead before passing out face first onto a bed with
a black cat on it. I awoke and had more cereal. |
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What Happens
Next?, Dead Bodies Everywhere, Society of Friends (Texas),
Curtainrail (Japan)
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Live at
Mission Records!
(all-ages and cheap)
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Mission
St
San Francisco
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Sat, Jan
9th
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| The
good word: Curtainrail was super-hyper cool, as expected.
The other two were brutal, fast, and tight. We were at
least fast. The real highlight, though, was that Hal showed
up and brought me a bunch of Sewer Trout CDs!!! Write
Hal and tell him you want to die for your own CD.
Mission Records is a great place to play, less the problem with
the the trampoline-stage. |
What Happens
Next?
(this is craigums new band with devon from All You Can Eat,
Robert from Fuckface, and Max from Spazz), Exhumed, Weakling,
Black Goat, Scatched
|
benefit
for Epicenter Zone in SF
All-Ages!
|
924 Gilman
St
|
Fri, Dec
18
|
| What
Happened Then: We were "not tight" but still "tough."
My bandana stayed on the whole time butI scabbed up my knees
pretty bad. All the other bands were super metal and one
drummer was going so strong that his arm gave out midsong and
everyone wasafraid to laugh at him. There were many people who
had no problem laughing when each song, from each band, was
introduced in the "deathmetal voice." It prompted everyone
to talk that way regularly. See how fun it is to growl
things like, "Snickers bar, please" or "I have to go to the
potty, can you keep an eye on my jacket?" |
Your Mother,
Apeface, Ringwurm,
Reina Aveja (Fl)
|
Kim and
Dean's wedding
|
Joe's House
San Jose
|
Sun, Nov
29th
|
Whoa:
the best way to describe the event is "non-traditional."
Ringwurm (featuring Joe) played (good, i might add). then
some band with joe played 4 songs. while we set up to
play alan brought out the tuba and, rather than playing the
wedding march, he played the Death March from Star Wars as the
bride and groom were carted into the arena and shackled to the
ceiling. the crowd was a madhouse and before the ceramony
was over i swear i was at a Gwar show. i got rice stuck
in my hair and shoes, ketsup all over my boy scout uniform,
and i was forced to tongue kiss dean as he was too drunk to
notice that i was not his new bride. we played (with joe!) then
Reina Aveja played. they were so damn good that they were
not permitted to leave the corner of the room in which they
were playing until after their second encore. they even
had joe come up and sing a song! go joe! joe was even
lucky enough to stick around to clean up!
Alan's amendment: "I read your synopsis of the wedding,
and I think you left out one important part. I had already left
by this time (maybe you had too) but when apeface was playing
Robert decided that it was imperative to throw the carcass of
a turkey into the pit! He felt really bad afterwards and apologized
to Joe, but he kept saying 'they deserved it, they deserved
it!'" |
