Low Profile live Saturday April 1st
Half Time sports in Romeoville
with Shooting Blanks, Highball and ATF
i was all wasted but hyper yelling about how i couldn’t wait to write up this review when i was still at the show. so i hope i don’t forget anything.
so we met up at Rob’s around 6. we ran thru the set real quick and then loaded up and headed for Romeoville!!!!
it didn’t seem to take all too long to get there and we had no problems finding the place. this was not the case for the drive home which i’ll talk about later on.
we walked in and the place seemed pretty big. they had a huge room with pool tables and a jukebox and a dance floor which is where we played. then over to the right was the bar. we pretty much started drinking as soon as we got there. Marcus, the door man was an awesome guy and i hope he had fun with all us Bone Records bands.
Satan and I bullied the jukebox and played some good songs. played some Dire Straits, Weezer, Johnny Cash, Hall and Oates. Satan even payed a lil extra to download an awesome song by Return to Forever.
Deech and Hoff got there soon after. we were looking around and noticed that there was no PA. so Hoffman said we should wait for Pat who booked the show and that maybe he would bring one. so all the bands r there and we’re all hanging out. Pat shows up and says he has no PA. he made some calls and found one but said that he had no way of getting it there cuz he just had a lil 2 door car. so i volunteered to go with him to get it with my big ass van. he said it was only 2 mins away. so i follow him over. about 12 mins away to this storage facility. he pulls up to the gate and i’m right behind him. he walks up to the van and says we have to wait for his contact to let us in. he kept apologizing over and over for not being ready and i assured him this has happened before and that it was no big deal. once we get the PA to the club, we’ll get the show started. so this guy comes and swipes a card to open the gate and let us in. he has me back the van up into a garage. right away, i can hear a band jamming pretty loudly. of course that sort of thing gets me excited and i wanted to go check em out but they made me wait by the van. so they roll out 2 big PA speakers and bring out the board and some other stuff. the guy jumps in the van and says ‘i’m riding with you.’ so on the way over, i packed up a bowl to smoke on the drive back to the club. i had it in the middle console and i clumsily threw a napkin over it to hide it. well the guy saw it and says ‘don’t worry bout that. i just got done smoking bongs.’ so i said ‘i’m Erik from Low Profile and we’re smokin that on the way back.’ so he introduced himself as AJ and said he sang for a band called Once Suffered. we talked about booking shows and bands and that kind of stuff on the way back and he was a real cool guy. so we load the PA in and AJ is setting it up for us. then he walks up to me with a mic and says that he only has one mic, one mic cord and no mic stand. so i go get Satan and we start looking around for stuff we can make a mic stand out of. a pool cue. no. a broom stick. no. Highballs drummer brought over a cymbal stand and that worked perfect. it had a pivoting top so we just taped the mic to it. shit like that reminds me of being 15. we never had money to buy a bunch of mics and mic stands or a PA. so we’d improvise and use whatever we could. and u should see when Low Profile records on Satan’s 4 track. we’ve taped mics to laundry baskets, crates, the pole in Rob’s basement, this ab cruncher machine, garbage cans, etc. whatever is around, we’ll find a way to make use of it. and Low Profile has a strong mentality that the show must go on.
so we played first. it was a good, fun set. the mic worked out fine for us. our set was:
Step Inside
the Limitation
Walter Mander
Carl Panzram
King of the Hill theme
Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash)
Swingline
Ultraviolence
Hotboxed
of all people to ask for CDs, i guess the cooks in the kitchen heard us but didn’t get to watch us and they asked for CDs which was pretty fucking awesome. so we hooked them up right away. then gave out some more CDs and some stickers.
Highball was up next. it’s been awhile since we’ve played with them. but it’s always a good time with these guys. they were singing Beatles style into our makeshift mic when they had double vocals or backups which was hysterical. Satan had to go tape up the mic a lil better while they were playing. heres a pic of me and Chris right before he left.
Shooting Blanks played third. they always rock hard and tear it up when they play. always a good, energetic set from these guys. this was our 10th time playing with them. Satan taped the masking tape from the ‘mic stand’ around Brey’s head.
After the Fight played last. and once again, always a good, tight set from these guys. Brey tried to fuck some kind of stuffed animal, dont know whats up with that.
overall this was a super fun show. never a dull moment.
so we hung out after ATF finished and kept drinking, mingling, etc. we took our time loading out and headed for home. Jessica followed us. the entrance ramp to 294 was totally backed up. we were like 25 cars past the toll booth. so more and more cars are getting backed up and we have no clue whats goin on. Jessica runs up to the van and says she called Idot to see what was up. turned out there was some huge accident there not long before we got there and they were cleaning it up. so we sat there for like half an hour listening to music and just waiting. it sucked cuz i probably could have hit up Luke’s before they closed if we didn’t have to wait for this mess.
we unloaded at Rob’s and i headed back to my place. i set my clocks ahead before i even left for the show so that was kind of depressing seeing that it was an hour later than it really seemed to be when i walked in. i was kinda hungry and wanted to eat but decided to keep drinkin instead. then i turned on Tree’s Lounge figuring i’d pass out after like half an hour of watching it. but i got into it and ended up watching the whole thing. awesome fucking movie. so that’s it. another super duper fun show.
thanks to ‘Ms. Bone’, Hoff for inviting us out and Pat for giving Hoff the show. thanks to AJ. and thanks to everyone who came out to see some punk rock Bone Records style!!!
-ERIK
[satan’s note: just wanted to send another shot out to marcus the bouncer. first of all, i would not want to tangle with this guy, it would be like trying to tackle a large building. he was beyond cool, this guy was super nice and awesome.]
