We played this show with Alastair and This Side Up. As usual I was a bit nervous before the show and opted to take a walk during the other bands sets. But before any one played I had quite a run in with a member of (I believe) Alastair. First he saw my Jackson and thought it was very heavy metal or something. I was jamming on stage before the show and he asked me to play some ‘unnatural harmonics’. For non-guitarists, there are two kinds of harmonics: natural and artificial. Clearly, by unnatural he meant artificial, but I had never heard that before and he just didn’t know what the fuck he was talking about. He later offered to teach me how to bend the ends of my strings at the top of my neck into pentograms. I think that that actually would be pretty cool, although I do not believe that he actually knew how to do so and there was also very little slack to do it with. All in all, he tried his best to impress me. The icing on the cake was when he saw a sticker we had put on the ground. He told me that if the Fireside management saw that, we would be banned forever and if we were smart we should peel it off. I told him that I figured I could handle the situation myself and that he shouldn’t worry about it. I didn’t see his band but I’m sure that they sucked.
