i took off work all day on Friday which was awesome. i got to chill all day long pretty much and it was muchly needed. i watched Empire Strikes Back which i haven’t watched in over a yr or so. then i put on my Rage Against the Machine live DVD before i left to go meet up at Rob’s house. that shit got me so pumped. usually i put on some Slayer live but the RATM does the trick.
so we met up at Rob’s at 7:30. we brought our buddy Dave Metko with to help load and to take pics and for comic relief. what a guy. so we loaded up my work van and headed for Cal’s. we got there right around 8:30 and we were the first band to get there. i just chilled in the van for like 20 minutes listening to music since i knew no one else was there. we loaded in and right when we were finishing up, Miles of Wire started loading in. Rules of Attraction all showed up shortly after that. i snapped a good pic of Mike and Satan and we were laughing at how good their shirts (bright red and blue)contrast in the pic. fucking awesome. and doesn’t Mike look like the happiest guy ever in all his pics?
so we sat around bullshitting and whatnot till a lil after 10 when Miles of Wire started their set. these guys are from St Louis. they played a good rocking set. the bassist played a real nice old school Rickenbacker bass. they were all just real cool guys and were fun to hang out with.
we played second and started around 11 or so. our set was something like this:
Milwaukee
High Gravity
Hotboxed
Excited to Die
Spreading Yourself Thin
What I Failed to Mention
the Will to Kill
King of the Hill theme
Folsom Prison Blues (originally by Johnny Cash)
Rules of Attraction (originally by the Rules of Attraction)
so all 3 of us really like RofA a lot. and i’d have to say that the Rules of Attraction is probably my favorite song by them. so Satan mentioned that we should learn one of their songs. that one seemed the best for us to cover. so we played it in tribute to them since we think they rule so much. and hopefully our surprise was better than the pit of Sarnack.
the set went by pretty quick. there was this crazy drunk dude watching us and he kept yelling shit out. he was like trying to have a conversation with me while i was trying to play or in between songs. i had to tell him to hush up till we were done with our set. at one point, i just started yelling lyrics right up to his face. my face must have been about an inch from his and i was yelling out the lyrics to Milwaukee as loud as i could. it didn’t even seem to phase him. after a show, we all sit and talk about the highlights of the show and all that and both Rob and i said separately that we thought Excited to Die was the best song and is always good to play live. everyone always loves when we play Folsom and we hadn’t busted that out at a show in a while. i get bored playing it but if people are going to sing along and all that, then it makes it more fun for me.
Rules of Attraction played last and started around midnight or so. they ended up finding their old set list hanging on the wall from the last time they played there and they played the same exact songs from it. i thought that was cool. Mike was even telling me that one song in the set list they haven’t played since September of 2004. pretty crazy. their set rocked as i knew it would. these guys are just a great band. super nice and cool guys, great songwriters/musicians. i’m just in awe of all 3 of them. Andy is one of the most fun bass players to watch. his style is just so natural. he makes playing bass so easy. he plays with a pick and his pickhand just moves so naturally. and he plays an Ernie Ball bass so u know i’m luvin that. all in all, this band rules and i hope we can play with them again one day. i’ll have to go see them again at least. we’re even talking about covering a Monsignors song. i’m all for Aniston Amuck!!!!
so we gave out a bunch of CDs, stickers and tshirts. there was this homeless guy walking around outside with no shirt on so i gave him a shirt just cuz it seemed like he could really use a nice new clean shirt. the bartender made a comment about how nice that was of me. there was this cool punker chick from California hanging out that night with her dog and she let me sticker her skateboard. Cal’s actually set up some tables outside the place kinda like a lil beer garden so it was cool to just go sit out there and watch the people goin into the club next door. good stuff. we smoked a nice peach flavored blunt on the drive home and jammed along to the Mad Caddies live album. i think i’ve played that on the way home from the past 3 shows or so. it’s just fun cuz we were all singing along to it while we’re all pretty ripped. hahahaha. good times……
so thanks to the Rules of Attraction for inviting us out to play this show. thanks to Cal’s for having us out. and thanks to Metko for helping us lug our shit in and out of the van and for taking pics of us while we played. i had a blast. great show. great bands. fun crowd. can’t beat that. till the next show…..
-ERIK
i just want to add a few things:
1. thanx to pat from the phenoms for stopping by
2.this dude was roaming around trying to take poloriods of people and then sell them the pics. we thought it would be pretty deep to take a picture of the guy that takes pictures. well not really i guess.
3. mike broke his A string during ‘smoke’, which requires teh a-string big time. he tied it around his neck as he attempted to finish the song.
4.
a. he played my gutiar after that which was a total trip, i did this once before (w/ matt from shooting blanks) and its awesome to watch someone else play my guitar, like dudes that want to voyeur their wife getting fucked by other men. tho im not into all that.
b. i wanted to eat that chicks nice white thighs and ass like a pig in slop.
5. RofA came up to sing backups on their own song as we covered it, they did the ‘Cha!’s very well.
Very well.
–satan165
