Category: bar

Show #92: Ye Olde Town Inn, Mt. Prospect

ye olde town inn is a super cool place. its been around a real long time, rob said his dad told him that he brought robs mom there back in the 70s when they were dating. they are pretty reknowned for their pizza which is extra crispy and id say actually worth the hype. in one of the best perks for bands ever, every band gets a free ‘za! fucking awesome. id be happy even if it sucked, but it dont, it rules.

we got offered this show thru a dude named voodoo thru myspace. i dont even think he is associated with the club anymore, he offered us the gig out of the blue. it was at a shitty time, it was the beginning of winter but it seemed like it was in the dead of the season, there was alot of snow on the ground which was frozen and it was super cold out. the enxt week (and for a few weeks after) it got way nicer ironically.

the bill for the show kept changing bands, in the end there were only 3. highball was supposed to play with us and they canceled. then our friends she likes todd showed up out of nowhere, they got booked somehow at the last minute! it was great to see those guys and hang with them, they were supremely awesome.

the other band was called the alien blakk. they were billed as being produced by dave mustaine (awesome) and also for being from texas (not true, they laughed about this to me and said they were from boston, dont know how the mixup ever got started). they were super awesome guys and very very skilled! the bassist played almost the entire show with a gas mask on! i knew they were supposed to be ‘instrumental metal’ and they lived up to that obscure genre. after 1 song i wasnt sure what to make of them and thought they were a fluke, but after a few more as i studied them and paid close attention to their sound i realized they really did kick Ass! crazy fucking music, nothing but guitar leads 24/7 with very occassional vocals. they also covered ‘snowblind’ by black sabbath and the drummer from soulfly came out of the crown and played with them! i am not very familliar with soulfly’s material but i looked them up to see if this was the dude and it was, i want to say hes played on 2 of 3 albums or something. pretty awesome, he was definately very solid on teh drums and you could tell these guys were having a good time playing the shit.

sat in a big chair in another room and half passed out, i barely even drank that night. on the way home i was just miserable, sitting on the uncomrtable floor of the van super tired and feeling very negative like an asshole. i really have no excuse for my level of garbageness that night.

the service was real good in the place and we had a super old waitress, she actually told us her age, i think she was like 75 years old or something and i think her name was mickey. she was deifnatley on point tho. the bartender was also super cool and even gave jessica some asprins cause she had a headache. i forget her name but she was super nice. they had some kind of wild special on pitchers for the bands, so we were breaking off anyone who needed some brew.

they had a bunch of arcade games and pinball machines in the corner which rocked. one was called junkyard and it was very complex, had a ton of minigames you could unlock within it, pretty awesome.metko being the pro at all video games that he is, was really tearing this one up nicely.

this was our last show of 2006 and we planned not to book anything for a while so we could keep writing. however as of today we have 3 shows booked already before the end of january, tho we have continued writing like mad, we are 70% done towards hitting up the studio to lay down all our new songs.

all in all, cool bar and had a good time, id definately go to see a show here or id play here again.

–satan

Show #91: Red Line Tap, Chicago

Low Profile live at the Red Line Tap
Saturday November 18th
with the Craven Dogs and the Romeros

this place is pretty awesome and was a lot of fun. i got pretty ripped. moreso than i do at most shows. me and Metko played some real good games of pool. i had to park the van like 4 blocks away so everytime we needed to go to the van “to talk” we’d have to hike in the cold rain. Metko got some pics of us on the way from the van to the club. and we marched while Specialist Metko had us do military marching songs. it was fun but i think we were too drunk and yelling them out too loud. they were pretty vulgar. hahahaha. who cares????

anyways. the Romeros played first. these guys were an awesome and fun live band.
we played second. our set was:

Overlength
Tolerance
Past Tense
Arnold Palmer and Katie Holmes
En Guarde
Grudge
Nature of the Way Things Work
Radical New Idea
Ultraviolence
Hotboxed

brettly from the band roundeye (RIP) was supposed to play with us but didnt becuase his band broke up. he was there anyways, since he books the shows and also is the soundman. super cool dude. satans seen roundeye also (at double door with rocky denis a while back) and said they were pretty awesome too.

some hippie dude was ripped and being cool with us, i think his name was cory.

Scott Herschler came out so this was his first time seeing our new songs. we told him he’d better get ready for em cuz he’ll be hearing them over and over in a few months when we come record with him.

the romeros were awesome. they are from the SW side and have played lot 4, they actually know mark 4 and once we had a show booked with them that got canceled. these guys were super cool, id love to play with them again.

the Craven Dogs played last. they rocked. they did a good cover of ‘Dancin Days’ by Led Zeppelin. i traded shirts with the bassist. i’ll have to bust it out at a show sometime. he played a pretty old MusicMan bass. it looked pretty dope.

we hung out a while after the Craven Dogs wrapped up. the Romeros gave us some of their left over free drink tickets which we immediately used up on more beers and shots. thanks guys. we left soon after that. and u know me and Metko hit up Castles befored i dropped him off.

-ERIK

Show #90: Doug’s Place, Aurora

Low Profile live at Doug’s Place in Aurora
Sunday October 29th
w/ Laugh to Scorn, Second Path and Boomjack

this show was fun. it was all ages but i don’t think that there was one person there who was under age. too bad. we had fun anyways. thanks to all 3 bands for playing this with us. it was a blast. Boomjack’s drummer left his high hat stand there which i still have right now. i feel bad. Second Path were awesome. this was our first time playing with them. they’re super tight and real cool guys. since it was sort of a Halloween show, Laugh to Scorn played all Screeching Weasel songs so u know we were all singing along. and we tried to do our set so every other song was a Misfits song. our set was:

Halloween (misfits)
Overlength
Tolerance
Vampira (misfits)
We Bite (misfits)
Past Tense
Spinal Remains (misfits)
Milwaukee
Day of the Dead (misfits)
Hotboxed

i played cordless and ran around the whole place. here’s a pic of the waitress ignoring me and taking a drink order. “so it’s 2 Miller Lites for you and…??” hahahaha.
both Satan and Metko did their faces up with makeup. Satan looked like he was severely beaten. Specialist Metko had blood dripping out of his eyes, etc.

i think that’s about it for this one.

-ERIK

Show #89: Lot 4, Chicago Ridge

Low Profile live at Lot 4 in Chicago Ridge
with She Likes Todd
Saturday Oct 7th

we tried to meet up at Rob’s at 7. but the River Grove Fall parade was goin on and i got stuck in major traffic and Rob lives houses away from the festivities so i couldn’t get there till like 7:45. there was nothing i could do about it but wait it out so i tried to make the best of it. smoked a bowl, put on good music, tried to relax. i even thought about parking the van and go walk up to actually watch some of the parade.

so we left later then expected but it didn’t matter anyways cuz we got the Lot 4 pretty quick and were still there super early. so to fill the time, we drank. of course Metko the #1 roadie came thru once again.

the Miller Lite referee chicks showed up and we had fun with them. Satan mostly annoyed them for free beer which they kept saying they didn’t have access to. but they hooked him up before they left. check out this chick. she was like 4’9 and looked like a hot lil porn star. she was running some crazy computer clipboard thing that had a survey in it and then had a built in camera. they took our pics and made stupid lil ‘man rule’ IDs with them. they raffled off Bears tickets for Sundays game but no one we knew won which sucked. i wanted em. i asked Natalie the cute bartender if she wanted to go with me to the Bears game if i won and she snapped some comment about her lame boyfriend. total turnoff. and no tip for you !!!!!!

so we played some pool and drank more. She Likes Todd started around 10 or so. they were really good. 3 piece, tight punk rock. a very good mix to play with us. we’ll have to set up more shows with these guys.

we played second. our set was:

Arnold Palmer and Katie Holmes
Character Profile
the Will to Kill
Overlength
Tolerance
Past Tense
Carl Panzram
Nature of the Way Things Work
Radical New Idea
Empty Rantings of an Old Silly Man
Hotboxed
Ultraviolence

Horror Hotel (Misfits)
Summertime (Crimpshrine)
We Bite (Misfits)

it was a good, tight, sweaty set. i played the cordless to full effect and ran around all over. i even ran outside and kept jamming out in the parking lot. i could hear the song fine so just kept jamming along. some Mexican dudes were coming in to the club and were banging their heads and giving me the horns on their way in. it was awesome. i ran up to a pool table where some nerdy dude was racking the balls up and i got in his face. he tried to ignore me but i wouldn’t allow that. i got closer into his face and stared him down. so he finally looked up at me and gave me the thumbs up. i wasn’t satisfied with his reaction but decided to leave him alone. i wanted to jump up on his pool table and kick the balls all over the place but my conscience kicked in a lil i guess. anyways, it was fun.

later on we went out back to smoke up with Mark 4 who booked us. Metko and I climbed up on the roof. it was pretty awesome. when Satan asked how we would climb onto the roof, i just looked over at the fence and said that i’d climb up the fence and onto the roof off of the fence. Metko said he’d take the ‘hard’ way. he shimmied across some wooden arch thing and onto the roof. it was crazy watching him. most people would get real nervous cuz we were drunk and all but it’s special agent Metko. he’s had crazy military training with shit like this. and this was nothing. u just gotta let him have his fun. and trust me, it’s fun watching him.

so they were kicking people out and we went to some other bar that Jim knew of. we drank there for about another hour. Metko and i went and watched the girls dance on the dancefloor. we left after that and dropped Jim off. after we unloaded the gear, Metko and i went and hit up White Castles. and of course we had to get the dusseldorf mustard. hahahaha. inside joke i guess. Metko joked that we’d be woken up with the urge to take a shit and i was. i went to bed at like 6:30 am and woke up at 9:30 to take a shit. then i went back to bed and woke up at like 10:30 cuz the old guy next door was mowing his lawn. i just got up and did some laundry, made some breakfast, watched the Bears game. then i was real tired so figured i’d take a nap. i passed the fuck out from like 3:30 till past midnight. a fucking long nap. then i was pretty wide awake. so i watched some Arrested Develpment and then read my Romo book till i was ready to go back to sleep.

that’s about it. it was a good, fun show.

-ERIK