At this show a lot of people showed up and we got paid a lot — $71. I’m sure it was supposed to be $70 but was miscounted by Washburn who put on the show. I remember him holding a huge stack of bills and just peeling off so many that I couldn’t believe it. When he paid me I thanked him then we hugged which was weird. I was very grateful to him for putting on the show and it was just very successful overall.
Instead of doing a half assed job on the sound, we paid a bit more and got a great sound man named Bo. He made it sound great and set up and tore down VERY fast. The PA speakers were not very steady and were stacked up. Once of twice, they were wobbling and he warned us through his talkback mic to be careful. I admonished the crowd to do so and they didn’t listen. During “Problem Solved” the whole fucking thing fell over which could damage the speaker and also the person or persons beneath it. Luckily neither happened and Farmer caught the speakers and it didn’t happen again.
Tony Perry got a huge bass stack for this show and Joe got a crazy Dean Flying-V. They sure did have some great shit except for one thing — Joe had no guitar amp. Now don’t ask me why you would go to a show and not even bring an amp because I don’t know. Fact of the matter is that Joe technically did not (and probably still does not) have a guitar amp. So he asked to use mine. I had borrowed a bad ass Valvestate Marshall half stack from a good friend of mine named Andy and I was really trying to protect the thing. I told him that it wasn’t mine to lend out, much less that Andy might come to the show and if he saw that I let him use it, he would probably be pissed. He said that he would talk to him or pay him or something but I said fuck it and just let him use it. Its this type of unprofessionalism that made Pie in the Sky never live up to their potential and eventually stop playing gigs. Later on Half Stachon played for which Joe plays bass. Of course, he did not have a bass so he asked Hilger for his. We were both real pissed at this point but he gave it to him anyways. They could barely even finish a song. Mike came out and sang Misfits with us and the crowd went wild. He had on the full Danzig garb and eye makeup. Awesome as usual.
