Category: chicago

Low Profile live at Memories
Friday September 15th
with Johnny Vomit, All or Nothing HC, Seven Year Existence, Redneck Exorcist, Moral Decay and Clad in Darkness
what a show. 7 fucking bands made for a fun, long and interesting night.

Satan and i met up at Rob’s right around 6. we loaded up the van and waited for Rob and Metko, our roadie for the weekend. we left soon after. i parked in my usual spot. loading equipment 2 blocks sucks major dick but oh well. that’s what we brought Metko for and he was truly great. we immediately set our shit up since we were playing first. then we started drinking!!!!! bands started showing up. the Rose Red people were there. we helped move shit out of the way and set up the PA, etc. they were real cool. except for the list of rules posted up near the PA.

so we played first. our set was:

Overlength
Tolerance
Arnold Palmer and Katie Holmes
Will to Kill
Past Tense
En Guarde
Nature
Grudge
Figure It Out
Hotboxed

it was a good tight set all around. it all went by in a blur. sorry i don’t have any fun stories about anything that happened. the night was still early. we loaded our shit out right away and just made a bunch of rounds all night to check on our gear or smoke up.

Seven Year Existence were next. they were fucking awesome. they’re from Champaign, IL. they played fast, furious heavy metal. they played real nice ESP guitars and basses. the singer was awesome. i just liked these guys a lot. here’s Satan with Luke. these guys broke a rule and were fined. hahahahaha. that’s pretty fucked up.

next up was Clad in Darkness. these guys were alright.

next up was All or Nothing HC from California. they were definately awesome and very energetic. crazy female vocals and a hot chick guitarist. the bassist wore a Judge shirt so u know me and Satan were luvin that. we kept yelling Judge at him all night whenever we saw him. he probably thought we were nuts. anyways, this band was awesome. i traded CDs with Renae. i listened to it pretty much all day Saturday in the van. good stuff for sure. check em out.

Moral Decay were up next. once again, they were just alright.

Redneck Exorcist were up next. they were pretty awesome. i was definately entertained. they play 3 piece like us so we brought that up to em when we met em. here’s Satan and Jimbo. the drummer sang and was a lot of fun. said a bunch of crazy shit in between songs and cracked us all up. the guitarist played real wild. reminded me of some Greg Ginn shit. i liked em a lot. and they broke the Rose Red rules. the guitarist must have knocked the mic stand over about 10 times. they must have gotten fined too. hahahahaha.

we had to wait a while for Johnny Vomit to start cuz Scott worked a long ass day and was at home passed out. they called him and he rushed over, literally ran in the joint with his bass in hand, plugged in, tuned and started their set. it sucked waiting for him but everyone cheered when he ran in. it was pretty awesome. they only got to play a short set but it rocked anyway. they ended with Emergency by GirlSchool and Jimbo from Redneck Exorcist ran up to sing along. awesome fucking song. Roman rules!. so does bill and his huge beard!

at some point in the night, i was sittin on the pool table in between bands and Johnny Vomit motions to me. i get closer and i’m like what’s up?? he hands me a handful of bud. i didn’t know why or what to do but it was pretty hysterical. i just pocketed it all. then later dumped it all into Satan’s hand. we were laughing about it and he couldn’t believe it. then of course we packed it up. thanks man. he’s actually done that once before to me at the DRI show in Aurora where we actually smoked a joint right in front of the stage while DRI was playing. it was awesome. ahhhh, memories. the ‘good buddy bar’.

–Erik