The Kraft Bowl had always been an infamous gang hangout and it’s in a bit of a bad neighboorhood. Washburn knows the family that owns it and they played there twice before without us. Sluice the Worries was a band that had Dom Vallone from 88 Fingers Louie on drums. They also had a bass player who played some crazy type of slap shit and wore no shoes. This band sucked balls. They were very loose. The sound checked with a terrible version of ‘My Hero’ by Foo Fighters. They later butchered ‘Crazy Train’. I still wince thinking about it. The most memorable part of the show was when everyone left. There was a few of use tearing down the PA. We were all drunk and it was late. The bar tender wasn’t even charging at this point being that the tons of underage drinkers had made them a killing. They even were nice enough to cook up some frozen pizzas for us and gave them to us for free. They were very hot and burned my mouth. I was in the process of trying to lift this huge speaker and I asked Dom for some help. He is pretty fat and he just stuck the pizza in his mouth half way and grabbed the speaker. I looked over and the sight was hilarous and is now burned into my mind. On another note, when we were setting up, Dom just sat down at Rob’s drums and started playing like they were his. I guess he thought he was famous or something.
We rented sound equipment and tried to hook it up ourselves. It sounded decent. We played ‘Pathetic Individuals’ and during the bass only breakdown I read the words to a poem called “The Jabberwocky” by Louis Carroll. I sure got a lot of blank stares on that one. It was great. It was either this show or the other Kraft Bowl show that Washburn had the radio stolen from his car out side the place.
