Sunday, January 13th 2008 @ 924 Gilman St. (924 Gilman St. Berkeley, CA 94710 - MAP) With This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb, Vena Cava, This Is My Fist, Love Songs, and Max Levine Ensemble.
Saturday, January 12th 2008 @ Bart's Pub (7052 Orangewood Ave. Garden Grove, CA) With Honkey Horn Badmouth, Robocop 3, This Is My Fist, Love Songs, KIller Dreamer.
Friday, January 11th 2008 @ Long Beach, CA. With This Is My Fist, Love Songs.
Friday, November 16th 2007 @ Thrillhouse Records (3422 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103) - MAP). With Love Songs, Manville, Uncut Hunx, and Missing Organs. All Ages. 6:30PM Free Show!
November 15th 2007 @ The Eagle Tavern (398 12th St, San Francisco, CA 94103) - MAP). With Love Songs, La Plebe, Boom Boom Kid, and Manville. 21+ 9PM $6. 10th Annual International Porn Star Nuts Day
Sunday, April 8th 2007 @ Mic's house (527 G st in Davis, CA 95616 - MAP). With Love Songs, This Is My Fist, and more. All Ages.
Saturday, April 7th 2007 @ The Holland Project (265 Keystone Pl, Reno, NV 89503 - MAP) With Love Songs, This Is My Fist, My Flag Is On Fire, and Bees Knees. $5.00 All Ages. 8PM sharp.
March 16th 2007 @ 924 Gilman St. (924 Gilman St. Berkeley, CA 94710 - MAP) WIth This Is My Fist, Love Songs, La Plebe, Final Fight, and Daggermouth. 8PM, $6, All Ages.
February 23rd 2007 @ Thee Parkside (1600 17th Street & Wisconsin, San Francisco, CA 94107 - MAP). With Love Songs, The New Centuries, The Fucking Ocean, The Lovely Public, and Settler. SF AIDS Foundation Benefit show.
February 17th 2007 @ Trillhouse Records (3422 Mission & 30th San Francisco, CA, 94110 - MAP) With Love Songs, Fencefighter, and Endless Party. Nate's Birthday.
January 20th 2007 @ The Cherry Bean Coffee Shop (332 Main Street, Salinas, CA 93901 - MAP) With This Is My Fist, Love Songs, and Tulsa.
January 6th 2007 @ House Show (1759 12th St., Oakland, CA 94607 - MAP) With Unit Breed, Giant Haystacks, and Love Songs, Neverending Party and probably even more. 9PM. All Ages. Probably free.
December 31st 2006 @ The Balazo18 (2183 Mission St. & 18th St., San Francisco, CA 94110 - MAP) Special New Year's Eve show with La Plebe, Trainwreck Riders, Love Songs
November 16th 2006 @ Annie's Social Club (917 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94107 - MAP) With Midnight Bombers (CD Release), Love Songs, and Bevelacqua. Stinky's Peep Show. 9PM 21+ $8.00
My second of three consecutive nights playing at Annie’s. Midnight Bombers were awesome and their singer told Jackson and I he’d fuck us in a heartbeat. He also told us he was married. It was interesting playing for an audience who’d never seen us before and who weren’t there to see us. Took a little extra effort to get through, and maybe we never did, but it was fun trying.
November 15th 2006 @ The Stork Club (2330 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94612 - MAP) With Boom Boom Kid, Love Songs, This Is My Fist, and Hella Fitzgerald. 21+
The 9th Annual International Porn Star Nuts Day! I was shocked at how many people showed up to a bar in Oakland on a Wednesday night. Annie thought it was ISBN Day and celebrated books but everyone else knew what was up. Jackson had the foresight to bring LS razors and shaving cream for anyone ill-prepared. Hella Fitzgerald proved to be especially rocking now that they have a full band. Who knew Steve could play guitar?! They sounded like early Dead Milkmen. But back to ISPN Day…we celebrated – did you?
October 28th 2006 @ The Fest V - Common Grounds (210 SW 2nd Ave., Gainesville, FL, 32601) With Toys That Kill, Grabass Charlestons, This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb, Love Songs (acoustic set - no drums), This Is My Fist, Armalite, Pink Razors, The Ergs. $15. 6:45PM.
How do you sum up FEST? In a word – party.
October 20th 2006 @ Annie's Social Club (917 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94107 - MAP) For Scott Alcoholocaust Birthday Show. With Cookie Mongoloid, Texas Thieves, Kitten On The Keys, Love Songs. Doors at 9PM, $7.00, 21+
Last weekend the Rocket Queens played at a brewery opening up for a screening of Spinal Tap. They gave us $300, free meals, and all the beer we could drink. Actually they gave us a limited number of drinks but Jackson schmoozed the bartenders like only Jackson can and from that point the drinks never stopped. Needless to say I got hammered - to the point of vomiting in my backyard after I got home. (Kudos to my girlfriend for being a good sport about it, by the way.)
Tonight I forfeited my drink tickets because I wasn’t in the mood for a repeat performance. Jackson’s advice was to get back on that horse and fall back off that wagon. The subject then turned to Jackson’s dislike of cookies. I told him all he needed was the right cookie to win him over. Someone then suggested that a cookie-beer or beer-cookie be made to appease us both.
Cookie Mongoloid is a metal band that plays Sesame Street songs or songs that can be manipulated into Cookie Monster-related songs (for instance – “Let It Be” becomes “Letter C”). Their singer, a guy in a Cookie Monster outfit and full leathers and who sang and bantered entirely in the language of Cookie Monster, had a cookie cannon shot cookie at the crowd. I was standing by Jackson when he first unleashed this weapon and the audience was soon showered with cookie crumbs. I looked over at Jackson and his beer was full of cookie. He was not impressed and I gave a second thought to the idea of a cookie-beer winning Jackson over.
October 14th 2006 @ Cafe Kashmir @ (3817 Tweedy Blvd. South Gate, CA 90280 - MAP) With This Is My Fist, Love Songs, Out To Get You and All Gone Dead. 8:00PM $6.00 All Ages.
Moshtache party in full effect.
October 8th 2006 @ Nicole's House (1759 12th St, Oakland, CA, 94607 - MAP) With Boom Boom Kid, Love Songs and more. 4PM. All Ages.
Boom Boom at a house show is what it is all about.
October 7th 2006 @ The Balazo18 (2183 Mission St. & 18th St., San Francisco, CA 94110 - MAP) With Boom Boom Kid, Outraged, Love Songs, Los Dryheavers, Delubyo, Wounds, Sputter Doll, Toxic Us, and La Grita. $6.00 All Ages. Early show starts at 2PM ends by 7PM.
10 bands shows aren’t so bad when no one plays for more than 10-15 minutes and shares equipment. It was good seeing Boom Boom Kid again and it is nice to know he is still around acting more and more juvenile and reckless each time I see him.
September 28th 2006 @ Bottom Of The Hill (1233 17th Street (17th @ Missouri), San Francisco, CA 94107 - MAP) With Kultur Shock, La Plebe, and Love Songs. 8:30pm, $8, All Ages.
Another dream show. First time for LS playing the Bottom of the Hill too. Damn good sound system there. Jello Biafra was there so I told him how California Über Alles was the reason I won the regional air guitar competition. He asked if I had heard the new ‘Arnold’ version he recorded with the Melvins. I said No so he went and fetched a copy of it. The cover was by a certain artist with accidental ties to our own band. If you ever spot the original cover for our split cassette with Sharp Knife you might see what looks like art by said artist but is in fact a knock off done by someone that one of the members of this band was dating at the time. No one realized it at the time and everyone was more interested in getting the cassette finished (it had been a year since we set out to do it) than they were agreeing on artwork so it just slipped through. So if you see a copy of that tape with a sticker over the cover now you know the story.
September 15th 2006 @ Hotel Utah (500 4th St. @ Bryant. San Francisco, CA 94107 - MAP) With Fleshies, Fabulous Disaster, Oc Toons, Love Songs. 9PM $5.00 18+
They showed porn on the tv above the bar so it is a wonder anyone stayed in the live room to watch us. The Fleshies inadvertently started some fights by being ‘inciting’ – basically they were jumping around having a good time so the audience was jumping around having a good time which the bouncers mistook for violence so the bouncers tried to stop the dancing by use of force which then turned into actual violence which eventually stopped the dancing and good times.
August, 27th 2006 @ Golden Bull (412 14th St., Oakland, CA, 94612 - MAP) With Love Songs, King City, Ill Gotten Gainz. 21+ $5. Doors at 6PM. Show at 7PM.
While the Alcoholoscott shows occur with such frequency as to blend together I always have a good time. Here’s to Alcoholoscott!
Love Songs - CD Release Show:
August 7th 2006 @ The Balazo18 (2183 Mission St. & 18th St., San Francisco, CA 94110 - MAP) With Love Songs, La Plebe, Hit Me Back, Crucial Section, and Eskapo. 7PM $5.00 All Ages.
Fuck yeah!!! Some of our favorite bands representing 4 countries all playing our CD release party. My dream show.
July 30th 2006 @ The 14th Ward (131 Pine St. Reno, NV 89501 - MAP). With Acts of Sedition, Parallam, This Is My Fist, Love Songs, Onion Flavored Rings.
Last night of the tour and it was a good one. Don’t remember much except that it was Reno and, as always, Reno was good. Got to give the new CD (a flaming turd aimed at the state of Utah) to Parallax, a band from Utah. It was good to see more people from Utah who don’t subscribe to Mormon culture. I imagine that them living within the confines of such a place is one of the last truly American ‘punk’ things left to do. Having a mohawk in Alabama doesn’t mean much anymore but dissing Utah, in Utah, is another story.
July 29th 2006 @ Agate Hall Law Library (1515 Agate St., Eugene, OR 97403). With Love Songs, This Is My Fist and more.
…2 weeks later… There was this old guy in the audience who everyone started comparing to what I’d be like when I got old. He looked a lot like a street person, to be honest. Weathered, bearded, haggard, grey. This guy and I end up talking and his favorite band of all time is RKL (one of my top 5 all time faves). He also didn’t really seem all the ‘old’ to me. What I mistook for weathered and haggard was more just comfortable neglect so perhaps everyone was right and this was going to be when I grew up.
July 15th 2006 @ Bike Barn (547 Blackstrap Rd. Falmouth, ME 04105 - MAP) With Ringers, This Is My Fist, Love Songs, and Unwelcome Guests.
The show, located in a barn in rural Maine, wasn’t all that rockin’ but the combination of Speedos and tractors was. We dropped Bradley off at the airport and thus ended the Love Songs leg of the tour. This Is My Fist kept going and met back up with Bradley in Eugene, Oregon 2 weeks later…
July 14th 2006 @ Regeneration Records & Tattoo (155 Harvard Ave, Allston, MA 02134 - MAP) With This Is My Fist, Love Songs, American Cheeseburger, and Goodness Gracious.
I don’t have any tattoos. Some temptations have come and gone but nothing lasting. BUT… Sue, who runs Regeneration Tattoos, used to go out with a guy who was the brother of the girl who is now Weird Al’s wife. That connection was good enough for me! So I waited all day for my turn to get my first tattoo – “Weird Al” on my lip – but as the day wore on it looked like time was not on my side and we had to cut out for our show.
July 12th 2006 @ (1410 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn, NY 11213 - MAP) With This Is My Fist, Love Songs, Glory Hole, and Mean Shovel.
Ok, I’ve been going on about the heat most of this trip but NOTHING compared to tonight. In my whole life nothing compared to tonight. It was hot outside, no doubt about that, but the room in which we played was a sauna. Not ‘like a sauna’ – it was a sauna. I have never felt so depleted after a show in over 15 years of playing shows. The pictures say it all.
After the show we toweled off and headed into Manhattan to hang out with Pete-sa and the Weakerthans. At the bar an older man creepily but discreetly hit on Pete, Brad and I during the course of the evening. I can’t put my finger on what made the exchange so creepy but I think it was the trenchcoat-in-the-summertime.
July 11th 2006 @ The Fire (412 W. Girard Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19123 - MAP) With This Is My Fist, Love Songs, The Ergs, and Fake Problems.
The Ergs!!! Unfortunately the Low Budgets canceled (imagine, some Dead Milkmen – in their own town!!) but man…The Ergs!!!! Recently relocated Dave Scattered showed us around Philadelphia where it was hot enough run naked up the “Rocky” steps at 1 in the morning and still break a sweat.
July 10th 2006 @ Volume CD's (2720 North Mall Drive, Virginia Beach, VA 23450 - MAP) With This Is My Fist, Love Songs, and Runamucks.
This show required naked skateboarding in the parking lot.
July 9th 2006 @ Pulaski 666 House (666 Pulaski St. Athens, GA 30601 - MAP) With This Is My Fist, Love Songs, American Cheeseburger, Goodness Gracious.
Arrived at Jackson’s older brother Jason’s house and, like a true Huffman, Jason treated us to some serious hospitality. Showers, beds, meals, cookies. My favorite part of the day was when Italy won the World Cup and Jason tried to hug Jackson. I’m not sure what was more awkward, Jackson getting a hug from his brother or Jason trying to contain his excitement without waking his infant sleeping down the hall.
July 8th 2006 @ The Atlantic (15 N. Main St, Gainesville, FL 32601 - MAP) With This Is My Fist, Love Songs, and Swedish Party Pranks.
Both Jackson and I got hit on by well-dressed college girls. Most of the No Idea folks were on tour with Stressface but Tony was there and after seeing us play invited us to play Fest this year. Fuck yeah we’ll play Fest this year. Samuel Wicks, penpal to all, worked a deal with the restaurant across the street and got us a highly discounted meal which went well with all the free PBR the bar served Jackson and Seth. They played the Hot Dog Eating Championships on the bar TV and I was reminded that they’ll make a competition out of and televise just about anything these day, no? Drove through the night again.
July 8th 2006 @ FD’s Porch With This Is My Fist, Love Songs, and ¼ of Sexy.
Played on the porch at noon, ate some breakfast, almost kidnapped a dog, drove to Gainesville for a night show.
July 7th 2006 @ Cave 9 (2237 Magnolia Ave, Birmingham, AL 35205 - MAP) With This Is My Fist, Love Songs, and more.
8 days on tour and last night was the first night we actually got to sleep somewhere instead of drive somewhere. Played with some Christian nu metal/emo bands and Jackson moshed with them in his Speedo. Drove all night to Pensacola.
July 6th 2006 @ Anarchtica House (621 Bell Ave, Chattanooga, TN 37405 - MAP) With ADD/C, Panty Shanty, Bathory, and The Commodores, This Is My Fist, Love Songs, Army of Jesus, and Hidden Spots.
It’s not getting any cooler the more south we go, go figure… Even when we played at 11pm it was smoking hot. So hot, in fact, that the PA burnt out. Twice. After the show we drove to another house to sleep at 2 in the morning. At 6:30am I had to take a call from a Canadian rock station about the air guitar stuff. I felt like I was having a conversation with a laugh track. Everything I said they laughed at, even when what I said was not funny, or even meant to be funny. It made me think of the scene with Handsome Dan in Wayne’s World II. I wandered around for a couple hours wondering how I have made it a week without sleeping more than 4 hours at a time. TimmyFromAustin and I walked a couple miles to the nearest store (a gas station with little more than grape soda and Doritos) and got hassled by passing motorists for being, if I remember correctly, crackers.
July 5th 2006 @ Boxcar Books (301A S. Washington, Bloomington, IN 47401 - MAP) With This Is My Fist, Love Songs, and Mt Gigantic.
What a shift!!! Another overnight 12-hour-ish drive (it’s not getting any cooler, by the way) but this time instead of pulling into a drunken debauched mess of a scene we pulled up to the modern day PC Punx Mecca. It was the first night of Plan-It X Fest and we played the leftist bookstore Boxcar Books. An awesome space, lots of excited kids, and Jackson’s family, who actually bought us a hotel room at the Marriot Hotel despite our direct requests to the contrary. So while the streets of Bloomington filled with the dirtiest of the hobo punks and all the hitchhikers and all the other shower-free young activists we rolled up all showered and rested and fortified, all thanks to Jackson’s mom (she made me tons of cookies too, bless her!). Side note: it is particularly fun to play songs like Nel Contra Caca or ISPN Day to kids waiting for anarcho-fringe-society-rebel anthems.
July 4th 2006 @ Haunted Kitchen (1900 Louisiana St., Lawrence, KS 66046 - MAP) With Love Songs, This Is My Fist and tons more.
Of all the shows I booked I was led to believe this was going to be the best. The dood who set up the show sounded so stoked we were playing I felt like maybe he had us confused with some other band. He would periodically send us emails saying “Seriously, Love Songs…playing my house?!?!” He further boosted our expectations by saying he was hosting the party of the year since we were coming and since it was 4th of July he was going double all-out. He also secretly told me that Leftover Crack were gonna play as well. Not that any of us are LOC fans but we imagined the show would be that much more off da hook if they were on the bill.
So we drove 16 hours to show up in time. Upon arrival we found a motley assortment of crusty kids, college kids, drunks, drug addicts, flag burners, and post-Hot Topic LOC fans. By early evening the majority of people were fucked up beyond control and one guy was pretty close to dead. He passed out on the lawn and everyone just kept rolling him over whenever he started to vomit on himself. The cops showed up during some flag burning and the ‘punx’ made it a point to harass them to no end. Back home the cops would have just arrested the kids then confiscated all the gear (which would have been ours in this case) so we were duely worried, but they didn’t do anything.
[Reminds me of the time Your Mother played in Corvalis - the cops were beating down the door while the promoters put couches in front of it and alternately yelled for us to keep playing and for the cops to “go away, no one is home.”]
We hung around for close to 10 hours for our chance to play. LOC played very early and most people left when they were done. Then countless shit-talking local bands played, horsed around, got drunk and otherwise stalled our chance to play. We ended up playing last, around 12:30 am. Ben Snakepit was THE ONLY person watching our first song and he just kept yelling “16 Hours!!! Woohoo! We drove 16 hours to get here!! WOOHOO!!!” I stripped butt naked and Jack and Seth wore Speedos. Ben left to gather people to watch and for the half of a song that he was gone we played to literally nobody. Funny how in my mind this was possibly going to be the best show of the tour yet in the end we played to ZERO people. Additionally, the booker who was so excited to see us never came to watch.
July 3rd 2006 @ Austin (423 Tillery St., Austin, TX 78702 - MAP) With This Is My Fist, Love Songs, The Marked Men and many more.
Not our longest drive of the tour, but close. As soon as we got into Texas we pulled over for gas and Jackson bought a pink bandana and stood in front of the liquor store waiting to get beat up. Drove to Ben Snakepit’s house and watched Gremlins 2, then went to the river where Seth drank beer and smoked while wearing a Speedo. It was a classy moment. Then we went to the restaurant where Bush’s daughter was arrested for under-aged drinking and we ate free nachos. It started to rain and that was the nicest feeling this whole trip so far. Around dusk we headed to the show in an open-air garage (no A/C, one small house fan, 300 people) and hung out with Ben Snakepit, Jake Filth, and the Marked Men. Good times, sweaty times.
July 2nd 2006 @ (1343 E University Ave, Las Cruces, NM 88001 - MAP) With This Is My Fist, Love Songs, The Answer Lies, and many more.
Drove again through the night and even at 3am we were sweating in the van. First stop once we got to NM was at a mechanics who advertised “Free Air Conditioner Test”. Since it was over 100 degrees at 10am and our A/C doesn’t work we thought it a good idea to get it checked out. We napped in a hotel lobby for a couple hours then went back to the garage hoping to board a freshly cooled van. This was of course not the case, but hey - why bitch about how hot it was in the van when you can bitch about how hot it is everywhere else too? The papers said 118 degrees today in Las Cruces. Can you fucking believe that?! We played in a living room, in a house with no A/C. It was a good time though and our hosts were friendly and nice enough to make us a veggie BBQ. Then it was back in the van for another all-night drive.
July 1st 2006 @ The Phix (113 W Grand Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85003 - MAP) With This Is My Fist, Love Songs, and more.
I can not describe to you how hot it is. It was 88 degrees when the sun came over the horizon at 6:30 this morning. Yeah, we were still driving at sun-up.
Question: Drive overnight drive to spend the day in a house with A/C vs. drive in a van with no A/C through the desert in the middle of the day?
Answer: Drive through the night.
Spent the day lounging at Matt's house. He spent the day getting more and more wasted – drink some shots, smoke some weed, drink more shots, smoke more weed…and so it went for the entire day. Then at 5 he bounced up and said “we gotta air this bitch out before my mom gets home.”
The show was hot as fuck and most of the audience were our friends who drove out from LA. A band from the Bay Area played at a bar across the street then walked over and asked to jump on our bill. The promoter let them and they proceeded to back their U-Haul up to the front doors and unload more equipment than is necessary for a no-name band playing to…3 people!!! Actually there were many more people when they started but only 3 left by the time they played their 2nd song. Their aim was obviously not to connect with people but rather showcase their ability to make 3rd rate emo metal. I think what made them worse was that they took off as soon as they finished playing instead of hanging out. But then no one liked them so I guess I can see why they split.
June 30th 2006 @ Cafe Kashmir @ (3817 Tweedy Blvd. South Gate, CA 90280 - MAP) With This Is My Fist, Love Songs, and Bruised Violet.
Good start for a tour. Everyone had mustaches, including Bradley and Annie. Max from High Speed Scene showed up with birthday boy Todd Bouchier (Girls Soccer/Beatbox – 2 of the greatest bands ever) in tow. Todd had to leave early though because his wife went into labor. One time when Your Mother was recording at The Pink Palace the woman living there went into labor while Alan was recording the tuba parts. Coincidence?
June 24th 2006 @ A private wedding in Berkeley, CA.
Congratulations, Rachael and Eric! And thanks for the chance to help you celebrate your big day. And also thanks for the free pizza and beer and sangria and ice cream cake and bottles of Tapatio!
June 16th 2006 @ Adam's House (818 Pine St., Oakland, CA, 94607 - MAP) With Love Songs, This Is My Fist, Acts of Sedition and more.
Who turns a hose on a band inside their own house?! Aside from the showering we received the best part of the night was seeing Jackson get drunker and naked-er while his girlfriend countered Donny’s ball-wielding with some vagina-wielding.
June 2nd 2006 @ 924 Gilman St. (924 Gilman St. Berkeley, CA 94710 - MAP) With This Is My Fist, Love Songs, Short Changed, and Dolph Lungrund.
I noticed a group of guys out front who looked suspiciously like Japanese punk rock tourists and lo and behold, they were. Turns out they were a band who had just come out to the Bay Area so they could see where all their inspiration was born (namely Gilman St). No plan to play any shows, just buy records and take pictures. I checked it out with the club and the other bands to see if they could sneak on the bill (everyone was cool with it) and then when I asked the band if they wanted to you could see a collective pants-shitting. After their 10 minute set most people watching looked at each other and said, “Well, I guess I can go home now because nothing is going to top that…” So True: video link.
May 12th 2006 @ 21 Grand (416 25th St., Oakland, CA 94612 - MAP). With The Bananas, 1918, The Cars The Doors, KIT, Fleshies, and Love Songs.
Free vegan buffet for bands! Quote of the night, from Mike Banana to Donnie, “Sure, I’ll drink your beer as long as it makes you less drunk.” Knowing both Mike and Donnie makes that story all the better.
May 5th 2006 @ Annie's Social Club (ex-Cherry Bar) (917 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94107 - MAP). With La Plebe, Love Songs, King City (members of R.K.L.)
Wow, what a great show. La Plebe always brings the party (especially on a Cinco de Mayo) and King City is definitely on the top of my See Again list. Though the band features Chewy from Hammers of Misfortune and Joey and Chris from RKL, you would NEVER guess they would sound like they do. Check www.myspeace.com/kingcity to see what I mean.
April 23rd 2006 @ House Show (3511 Volmer Ave. Commerce, CA 90400 - MAP) With Love Songs, La Plebeb, and Foreign Aggression.
SEE THE PICS
April 22nd 2006 @ Multikulti (Constitucion Ave between 6th and 7th St, Downtown Tijuana, Mexico) With La Plebe, Love Songs, and Agente Calavera.
SEE THE PICS
April 21st 2006 @ La Terraza Del Cafe (Ave Revolución, frente a Iglesia de la Sangrada Familia, Tecate, Mexico) With La Plebe, Love Songs, Agente Calavera, Revolver.
Dude, Mexico!!! Imagine Jackson and Seth’s glee when we pulled into the town where Tecate was produced. SEE THE PICS
April 20th 2006 @ The Caravan (98 South Almaden Ave, San Jose, CA 95101 - MAP) With La Plebe, Love Songs, and Angry For Life.
Finally! We turned in a decent performance at the Caravan. SEE THE PICS
April 19th 2006 @ Thee Parkside (1600 17th Street & Wisconsin, San Francisco, CA 94107 - MAP) With Love Songs, Lou Lou & the Guitarfish.
Lou Lou were a band ranging from 12-16 years old. Why they were playing a bar on a Wednesday night in SF was beyond us but thankfully them and everyone they brought with them were gone by the time we played. The remaining 5 people (bartender, booker and DJ included) were still double the amount of people we were expecting. I wonder if it had anything to do with me and my mustache walking around shirtless winking at all the moms?
April 8th 2006 @ Color Blind Studios (1476 Franquette Ave, Concord, CA, 94520 - MAP) With Reality Rejects, Love Songs, Guns of Autumn, and Aftermath.
Played for a bunch of junior high and high school kids who didn’t seem to care, until two days later when the lot of them bombed our myspace page and talked about how hot Jackson was and how they totally loved that we promoted growing your hair out.
March 31st 2006 @ Space 180/Locus Arts (180 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 - MAP) With Pidgeon, Love Songs, Wobblies, and Sputterdoll.
Ho my! An all-ages venue in SF!!! Even if you don’t like the bands playing you should go just to help get it off the ground. Better yet, get your band to play there and bring all your friends. Pidgeon is now only 2 guitars but they’re still damned amazing.
March 26th 2006 @ Golden Bull (412 14th St., Oakland, CA, 94612 - MAP) With Love Songs, Lack of Respect, The Nads, Giant Haystacks and Dj Owen.
It was a good night, well except for
this.
March 18th 2006 Nighttime Show @ Satellite Bar (188 California Ave., Reno, NV 89509 - MAP) With Manville and Love Songs.
I had a friend in high school. She was a Jehovahs Witness but that didn't make her any less attractive. It did however make her more or less off-limits though because nobody ever got to see her outside of school (yeah, like I'd have ever done anything about it anyway...). One of the founding members of Your Mother, Jared, was a Mormon. Both he and this young lady were devout to their respective religions and, to the best of everyone's knowlege, chaste. But that didn't stop them from necking the year we got out of high school. Can you imagine the theological implications!?! She is now happily married, no longer Jehovah, and has a couple kids older than this band so I have no shame in admitting what a crush I had on her. Oh, I mention it because she showed up tonight (and in case you're wondering she's still a fox.) BEERCAN had to cancel because Bill had shingles or scurvy or some other sickness that only pirates get but sad as that was, it did allow MANVILLE to play so not all was lost. (For the third time...WOW.) This weekend also proved that we were out of our sucky-show phase. Thanks again, Reno. Thanks to Casey and Ryan for keeping Jack and Seth well nourished with whatever imbibements they wanted. And special thanks to Cassie for driving Seth and Annie to the airport at 5:30 in the morning so they could fly to Phoenix and carve kids toys out of styrofoam.
March 18th 2006 Daytime Show @ Jakob's Casa de Dred (324 East Taylor, Reno, NV 89502 - MAP) With Owen Hart, The Assailant, Love Songs, Manville, The Undoers.
It has been said so many times before but it is worth repeating: Dude, RENO. The day started with a curse-word-filled ride with Bug through the Sierras. Then we all had a little nappy-nap at the relocated Ryland/Proxy house (which I will now dub The Lady's House) followed by a huge vegan pot luck at Jakob's house. Yeah, we ate too much but thanks to the Sienna Casino and the Spacement for being close enough to use their toilets. Unfortunately we only got to see MANVILLE (again, WOW) and the Undoers before we had to split for the evening show a few blocks away. Thank you, Joe and The Ladies and all the usual Renotians, THANK YOU.
March 17th 2006 @ Adam's House (818 Pine St., Oakland, CA, 94607 - MAP) With Mustaphamond, Manville, Giant Haystacks, Love Songs, Acts of Sedition, and Kool Teen.
This was one of those amazing nights where every band ruled, the places was packed and full of people dancing and having fun, and the cops never showed up. Giant Haystacks said they were willing to pack it in after their performance because they were never gonna be as well-received as they were this night. The far and away highlight of the evening though was MANVILLE. Not only was it nice to see Bug and company again (Bug and I have been penpals since 1993) but their new singer, Jamie, FUCKING KICKED ASS. Once they were done I was proud to be in a band that many people mistake for MANVILLE.
March 12th 2006 @ The Balazo18 (2183 Mission St. & 18th St., San Francisco, CA 94110 - MAP) With Love Songs, Tulsa, Abi Yoyos, Hey Girl, and Robocop3.
Tonight will mark the end of our Equipment Malfunction Phase. We promise to take more preventative measures to insure that tonight will be the last night where our equipment will be to blame for our sub-par performance. From now on WE will be to blame!!! The peculiar thing is this, my friends: we have been practicing (no, really!) because we have a whole slew of new songs to confound you with, but the strings we keep breaking are the very strings we need most for these new songs. Is our ample practicing weakening our fledging equipment, or should we not be playing these new songs? Hopefully our 3-show weekend next weekend will provide us with an answer...
March 10th 2006 @ (924 Gilman St. Berkeley, CA 94710 - MAP) With Love Songsy, Whiskey Sunday, Young Lions, Abi Yoyos, and Surrender. Dave Scattered's Birthday show.
We live at sea level - in California no less - yet it was so cold that it snowed/sleeted on our way to the show. No strangers to snow, the Young Lions prove yet again that Reno kicks ass. And if that weren't enough proof - when we played the Renotians outnumbered the locals 2:1! Surrender played on the floor by the women's restroom giving them that extra punky edge (read: smell). The YoYos played on the floor by the stage and kept an eye out for used-tampon-wielding malcontents (you'll have to ask Blane). Whiskey Sunday finally have a solid (and supremely talented) line-up. And we pretty much blew. Another rash of broken strings followed by palpable demoralization conspired to run our set into the ground and it took all our headbanging just to make it halfway through the setlist before giving up. Happy birthday, Dave. Face on you!
February 17th 2006 @ Grant & Green (Grant St & Green Ave., San Francisco, CA 94133 - MAP) With La Plebe, Love Songs, Jack Killed Jill, Down Tha Ship.
Thanks YET AGAIN to La Plebe for being totally kick ass guys and for setting up another super fun show. And thanks to Branyi for bringing one-time bodyguard for LL Cool J who was dressed to the 9's and absolutely emphatic that all of our songs be about 'titties'.
February 11th 2006 @ Half Moon Bay Community Center (535 Kelly St., Half Moon Bay, CA. 94019 - MAP). With with No Dice, HIT ME BACK, Cast of Thousands, Love Songs, and Rosenbombs.
It only took two hours to get to the show, partly because we promised the Hit Me Back guys we'd find them some burritos on the way - burritos that were baby-sized (not miniature burritos but burritos the size of a small child) - and partly because we got stuck in traffic. So we missed a couple of the bands but all was well when HMB donned matching biker outfits and assured the audience that they were single, bilingual and ready to mingle.
February 11th 2006 @ Kate's House (San Francisco, CA) Special acoustic Valentine's Day set.
The sole purpose of this show was to get Jackson inside the house of a potential paramour - a fitting aspiration for a Valentine's performance. Did it work? Well...we did get in the house, and we did play, and Jackson stuck around after the rest of us left, but then Jackson has been known to drink a lot so who knows what may have happened that night. Jackson certainly doesn't.
January 15th 2006 @ Stuft Pizza (39447 Fremont Blvd, Fremont, CA 94538 - MAP) With Love Songs, Fight The Battle, Ooohh, Quick and the Dead, Capitalist War Machine, Thuderboltz.
Who'da thunk a Sunday night show at a pizza place in Fremont would have gone off so much?! There was a birthday cake fight, there was a mom who not only socked a teenager in the face but also tried to get with Jackson, there was a hole punched through a wall, there were punk vs gangbanger tiffs out front, there was Seth's brother graphically asking what sort of favors the underaged attendees might be willing to bestow upon him, there was a Christian metal band from Pleasanton, and yet there was virtually no police involvement the entire night. We might even have gotten paid, I don't remember. Or wait, maybe we got paid in cake... Either way it was an unexpectedly fun experience.
January 11th 2006 @ KZSU (Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA) Playing live on KZSU 90.1FM Wednesday Night Live.
To the best of my knowlege only one person (in Utah no less) was able to listen to this show, which is probably just as well since hearing us live (as opposed to seeing us) probably isn't our best suit.
January 1st 2006 @ Nicole's House (419 South E Street, Santa Rosa, California, 95403 - MAP) With Love Songs, Modern Problems, Bafabegiya, Archeoptryx, Shortchanged, Are Black.
Despite rampant regional flooding and Clint from Acts of Sedition waking up in the morning in a homeless shelter with half his face broken, the show went quite well. Nicole's carpet didn't get all that matted from people trampling around in the mud outside and the Pyrate Punx didn't being anything remotely Jell-O-like with which to sully people's clothes and hair. And I find it fantastic how any band playing in a living room is just that much better than usual.
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