Low Profile live at the Mutiny in Chicago
Thursday April 1st
with Sparring
Great fucking day all around!!!!
Worked my 8 hours, got off at 4. Went home and chilled. We all met up at Rob’s at 8 and sat around watching the Gator Stoked DVD for a bit. Then we decided to start loading up and get on the road.
I got prime parking right in front. Satan and I loaded in. Paul, who booked us wasn’t there yet. But Allison, the bartender remembered seeing us play the Fireside with the Perps a few years ago. Pretty cool to run into her again. Paul showed up with his band and we all started bullshitting about our shows together and what everyone was doing. It was really great to see and play with his band, Sparring.
So the first band set up started their set. I swear they played like 15 minutes. It was pretty weird. Their style was very noisy. They had 2 guitars and drums. No bass. Pretty strange. Eorl told me that this was their first show and thats why they didn’t play very long. I guess they don’t really have too much stuff to play. We played second. I had a ton of room to move around in. Satan and Rob were crammed onto one of the lil stages and I had the whole other one to myself. I thought everything sounded good. I could hear everything clearly. Our set was something like this:
Arnold Palmer and Katie Holmes
Zamboni
Chimerical
Spreading Yourself Thin (PITS)
The Limitation
Walter Mander
American Nightmare (originally by the Misfits)
King of the Hill theme
Folsom Prison Blues (originally by Johnny Cash)
Milwaukee
Execution Style
Hybrid Moments (originally by the Misfits)
In The Zone
We rocked the fucking house! We added a few songs in there. Satan went right into the King of the Hill theme after American Nightmare unplanned and then went right into Folsom. The crowd loved it. Then after Execution Style, Paul is telling us that we can play 2 or 3 more songs. So I say we’ll play another Misfits song and ask what everyone wanted to hear. First I heard 20 Eyes but we don’t play that. Then I heard Angel yell out Attitude but we know it but don’t really enjoy playing it. Someone called out Last Caress. I would have been a lil rusty on that one. Then someone called out Hybrid Moments and Satan told him to come up and sing it. I don’t know this dudes name but he was cool about it. He took my mic and I didn’t know what to expect but he knew all the words and actually sang it pretty well and stayed in time with us considering he may not even be in a band and has never seen us or played with us before. So props dude. That was cool. Thanks for joining us for that song.
Then we were standing around and Jessica is calling out Mr. Pig and then Paul yells out In the Zone. We haven’t played that song in months but we did it anyways. It may have been a lil rusty on my part but it was still good. I gave a good intro by saying ‘this song is about smoking weed.’ Everyone cheered. U gotta luv that.
Sparring played last and took their time setting up. So I proceeded to drink and drink and drink. We just hung out and talked with everyone.
Sparring also play a very weird style of music. Long instrumental songs. They jam for sure. They all had a ton of pedals all over the place. They were crazy for sure. It was their second show.
We hung out a while after that. Kept drinking and mingling. We got paid $20 which sucks cuz u can’t split it 3 ways. So we all got $5 and then we had 2 sessions of rock/paper/scissors. First me and Satan went at it best of 3 and I won. So then I took on Rob and he beat me 2 in a row. So he got the extra fin. I suck!!! I can never win!! J/K. I had a blast. Thanks to Ed the owner. Allison and the other bartender chick. The hot chick watching the door and the dude who helped direct me drive my car out from being boxed in. Paul for inviting us out to play the show. Thanks to Jessica(good pics!!!), Angel, Eddie and his cousin, Andrew and Bill Knobs, Carrie and her crew, that dude who came up to sing Hybrid Moments, Nikki(Kurt). And everyone else who dug our set and cheered us on. I gave out a bunch of stickers so we should be getting some more hits on our site. Sorry we didn’t have CDs to give out. So thats it. Thanks for a great night.
–hilger
well back aroudn 1999 we met a band called the perps when we got booked with them at the fireside. we ended up playing a bunch of shows with them and they were really a bunch of great people. they got us some killer shows as well and they were always a joy to hang and jam with. well somewhere along the line we lost touch with them and then i guess their band broke up in 2001.
well about a month before this show, i got a weird email. it was from paul, the guitarist from the perps! it was a mass email he sent out (probably used the old perps mailing list) advertising for his new band and the launch of their site. i immediately emailed him back to congratulate him on the new band and ask him what was up. he ended up asking me if we wanted to play a gig with him right away and i was very eager to take it. luckily, we had no schedule conflicts and we took the gig.
the date of the show came around. we watched some awesome footage of jason jessee and gator rogowski skate in a pool on dvd at robs which got me pumped up. we loaded out and me and jessica rolled to the club. we copped some good parking and i took my shit inside. onyl 3 bands for the night which was awesome. the 1st band was already there and even half set up (we had already agreed with paul to play 2nd, and sparring 3rd.) i sat down at the bar and watched the door waiting for paul to walk thru, i was very excited to see him again for the first time in years. later i saw hilger and he asked if i said hello to paul. i was surprised that he somehow got into the club and around my watchful eye. he pointed him out. well lets say this. both me and paul have alot more hair then we did back in the day. while my shit is long his is curly and huge. i was actually nervous to approach him. me and hilger used to joke back in the day that paul was one of the nicest guys ever (which is absolutely true). hilger assured me that nothing had changed in the department. i approached him and gave him a hug and we caught up a bit. we later took a pic outside the club. good times.
well the first band went on and their set lasted like 10 minutes. i couldnt believe it was over so fast, but i have no arguments on that level. i was ready to jam! we ran up and set up our shit and before you know it we were rollin! eddie, one of hilgers old friends had showed up! he hadnt seen us in years either, and he even had seen us with the perps back in the day! he was right up front with his cousin — who incidentally works with wally, the ex-bassist from smear campaign. small world. and while were on the ‘small world’ subject….when i walked in a girl approached me and said ‘youre in low profile’. i asked how she knew that. she said that she went out with paul for like 3 years and had seen us play with them numerous times. then she told me that she bartended there, at the mutiny! turns out she was pauls contact for getting the gig.
‘arnold palmer and katie holmes’ i consider to possibly be my masterpiece of song writing but it can be hard to follow the math break and you have to do severe counting or youll throw off the whole band and ruin the song. we practiced it plenty ahead of time and opened with it — no flaws to speak of. it started getting a little hot in the back there but we forged on thru the set. we played ‘american nightmare’ one of my favorite misfits songs which we only recently learned. i dont remmeber what was actually on the set next but the rockabilly feel of that song inspired me to fuck the set list and roar into the theme from ‘king of the hill’ and then segue into ‘folsom prison blues’. it was definately a good idea. then we started asking for requests for more misfits songs. this one dude called out ’20 eyes’. i love that song but its one of few we dont know as a band. i told him to pick another and he chose ‘hybrid moments’. i told him to come up and sing backups or whatever. i was pretty tired and was hoping he could float the vocals for a minute while i caught my breath. ill put it this way — i dont think he could have carried the whole song very well by himself, but when he followed my lead he did absolutely great!
after the show i chugged a bunch of 7up and felt pretty exhausted. i louged around for a while at the bar with andrew and bill from the powerknobs (here with paul) who graciously came out to see us play. i was at the front of the bar by the front door and kind of boxed in which i liked since i was super tired and couldnt catch my breath from extreme thrashing. my neck was totally fucked also. i figured i ought to get some photos of sparring so i went up there. i had told paul i wanted to do this (as i take pics of all bands we play with usually) and he was equally as excited to get copies of the pics.
well i got to the back of the club and the first thing i notice is there is some passed out dude. i saw him earlier with his head in his hands leaning on a chair like a scrub. now he was laying across a bunch of chairs and his flailing legs had kicked our amps and kicked over my guitar cases. i yelled at him ‘hey watch it! what the fuck is wrong with you?’. no response, he was out cold. i put my gear back and kicked his feet hard. no response.
then i went up towards the band to take a quick 5-10 pics. i took a few and sparring was jamming. this this dude taps me on the arm. i turn around to see what he wants and he says ‘you doing that [taking the pics] is tottaly detracting from what they [the band] is trying to do’. as if they are some higher level of art and taking pics is not allowed? i dont fucking know. or care. i told him that it was never in my plan to stand there taking pics for more then 5 minutes anyways, and that also he is no fucking authority to be reprimanding me for taking pics. of course he clammed up then and nothing else to say. i took a few more pics out of principle and then rolled out.
we ended up getting paid $20 when i expected nothing. although there was a decent crowd i figure 10 other people or parties deserve the cash more then me or my band. but we took it and split it up. great show overall, what a blast. thanx for the gig paul. long live sparring!!!
–satan165
