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Low Profile live at the Mutiny
Saturday July 29th
with Shooting Blanks, One Light Out and Full
awesome fucking show. we met up at Rob’s at 7. played a few songs to warm up. get the juices flowin. Metko came with and roadied for us. we got there a lil after 8. we just set our shit up since we were playin first then hit the bar and started drinkin.

Satan and I went to see Unearthed Elf the night before. Keith and Mike came out and started partying with us.

we started our set a lil before 10. i busted out the Washburn which i just got fixed. check my equipment page for details. we tore it up. played a real good and tight set.

Rest Awhile (They Might Be Giants)
Overlength
Tolerance
Past Tense
More You Then You’ve Ever Been
Walter Mander
the Will to Kill
Bored
Character Profile
King of the Hill theme
Folsom Prison Blues
Hotboxed

after our set, we talked with Andy. he was a total trip. he was breaking down our sound and giving us so much props and was so intense about it. at first he was just talkin to me and was goin on about how he’s in his 50’s and has lived through so many genre changes of music. ‘i was around in the 70’s when punk was first comin out. i wasn’t down with it, but you know, it was cool’. but i couldn’t handle it. so i called Satan over for some relief and he took over with this guy. i seriously needed a drink after that conversation. he was awesome though. we offered him some merch and he refused it. at first we thought he was gonna say he didn’t have money so we told him it was all free. then he snapped in a weird way. ‘i rode my bike here. i can’t be carrying all that.’ so we insisted he take a sticker. and he did. then he left. hahahahahaha.

Andrew and Bill Knobs came out. thanks a ton guys. very good seeing u. it’s been awhile.

Josh, Steve and Bam came out. thanks guys.

Full played next, then One Light Out. our first time with both.

Shooting Blanks played last. we were celebrating both Scotty and Hoff’s birthdays for this show drunk punk style. here’s Scotty regulating. Dickhead Dan even came out and played a few songs at the end of their set.

it was a super fun night. always a good time at the Mutiny.

here’s the infamous picture of us with Ed. fuckin A.

some dashboard cam pics. (pic 1, pic 2)

we got back to Rob’s and unloaded. then i dropped Metko off and headed home.

hahahahaha…………………good times……

-ERIK

satan’s notes:

–keith and satan both have dope shoes

–hoffman used my amp, it ruled

–andrew is the greek god of greek gods

this was our 7th time playing at the mutiny. oddly, we got no pics of us performing for the first time in a LONG time. i think we played pretty well but the show was kind of uninspired in general. i partied until like 11am the day of the show and felt like trash. the symptoms, vacation bible school and lesser events played. donny from lesser events gave us the show. it was tony from shot bakers b-day and we were going to call him up to sing a misfits song with us but his cat died and he didnt come out. that kind of sums up the vibe for me of the entire show.

set list:
Pathetic Individuals
Carl Panzram
Milwaukee
Brown
Grudge
Nature of the Way Things Work
Hotboxed
Spinal Remains

Low Profile live at the Mutiny
Saturday September 24th – my birthday!!!!
with Shooting Blanks, Pistol Punch and Bruiser
what a show. what a birthday. and better yet, what a birthday weekend. we met up at Rob’s at 6:30 and jammed a bunch of songs and picked out the set. it sucked. i was more than warmed up and totally sweating when we were done. so no more jamming right before we leave for a show. i needed another shower and change of clothes afterwards.
so anyways, we left around 7:30 or so and got to the Mutiny right around 8. i parked the van right outside the Mutiny which was great. i walked in and Ed greeted me right away. i told him it was my birthday and he tried to reminisce about what he was doing when he was 27 back in 1977. i apologized for making him feel old. it wasn’t my intention but he told me some funny stories. what a guy.
so the 3 of us walked across the street to Sonny’s. Satan and Rob both had a slice. i ate before we left so i wasn’t all too hungry. Matt from Shooting Blanks came over and ordered up some slices and sat with us for a while. we all walked back over and started drinking pretty much right away. each band member gets 3 free drinks but i didn’t spend any money all night since it was my bday and everyone was buying me drinks. Satan gave me 5 bucks to play songs on the jukebox and i got to bully the jukebox for most of the night. they always have a good selection in that jukebox. i played a lot of Misfits, some Scorpions, 4 songs off of Powerslave by Iron Maiden, Van Morrison, Motley Crue, Brides of Destruction, etc. we just hung out till the first band was set up and ready to go.

Pistol Punch played first. they play 3 piece and Matt Hoffman from Shooting Blanks plays drums for them. they played some decent punk stuff. Hoffman was defintately better than i thought he’d be on drums. and i’m sure if he reads this, he’d say he sucks cuz he is very self depreciating but he kept the beat and could play fast and definately added lil fills in and everything. so good job playing multiple instruments dude!!!!

we played second. i sliced the pointer finger on my right hand open at work on Thursday and it was pretty deep and didn’t heal at all. so of course i busted my finger open on like our second song. it sucked. first off, i may be being a lil bitch about it but it fucking hurt the whole time i was playing. secondly, it bled all over my bass and made the strings feel grossly sticky so those 2 factors made playing not so fun for me. i’m trying to have fun rocking out our songs but i kept thinking shit like ‘damn my fucking finger really hurts’ or ‘yuck, my strings are all sticky from my blood’. so i wasn’t totally into the set. but here’s what we played:

Think About It
Arnold Palmer and Katie Holmes
HG
Hotboxed
Figure It Out
Mr. Pig
the Will to Kill
Solitaire
What I Failed to Mention
Where Was I? (originally by Guttermouth)

definately a good, tight set. we haven’t played Mr. Pig in a bazillion shows and never play anything off that album anyways so i threw that in. and i wanted to play Where Was I by Guttermouth just cuz i listened to Full Length the day before the show.
Hoffman, Brey and Deech all brought shots up to me while i was playing. so thanks for adding to my drunkeness. actually, the shots probably helped me not feel my finger so much or care that i was bleeding all over. so thats a good thing. thanks guys.
Satan gave a nice speech about Ed and the Mutiny. it was truly honest and heartfelt. i thought it was awesome. the lovely Betty Burbank showed up late and missed us damn u. but heres a pic of me and Dan with her and one of her friends who told me her name but i forgot. sorry.

Bruiser played 3rd. they were alright. i’m not sure his name but the black drummer who used to play in Local H plays drums for this band now. so the drums definately were fast and rocking out. but the band as a whole was just alright for me. at one point, the guitarist tried to do a jump or some maneuver and just toppled over onto his pedals and almost knocked his mic over. it definately made me laugh but u could tell he felt real stupid. especially since he unplugged his pedals and changed all the controls on them. his guitar didnt’ sound the same afterwards so that sucked for him. he was real cool tho. i talked with him briefly after their set.

Shooting Blanks were up last. they rocked the fuck out. this was our 9th time playing with them. Matt offered us the show like a month ago or something and i wanted to play a show for my bday anyways so this worked out great. Dan the dickhead drummer was back on drums for this show. we luv Scotty Hero but Dan is awesome. he is one of the happiest, friendliest guys in any band we’ve played with. i’m always excited to see and talk with Dan. he has a good aura and just makes me happy to be around him. and no i’m not gay. it’s just nice to hang out with someone who isn’t all negative and complaining all the time. and everyone makes fun of him for a ton of different things and he takes it all so well. Dan we luv ya!!!!
anyways, i’ll stop raving about Dan. Shooting Blanks rocked the house. they played a good variety of songs. they covered Wish by NIN, Every Rose Has It’s Thorn by Poison and the crowd favorite Home Sweet Home by Motley Crue. at one point, Satan cut them off and took the mic and was bitching about how every time we play with Shooting Blanks, Brey gets naked. well, i think Brey gets naked whether we play with them or not. but anyways, Satan was asking Brey why he hadn’t gotten naked yet and ordered him to show his ass to the crowd. so he did and i hurriedly snapped this pic. ok, so u can’t see his ass but u can see he pulled his drawers down. hahahaha. fuckin Brey. gotta luv him.

so yea, it was a great night. i had a blast. Ed gave us 20 bucks which was cool since they didn’t charge at the door and i definately didnt’ expect to get paid anything. but when he handed me the 20, he said ‘go buy yourselves some breakfast’ which was an awesome thing to say i thought at the time.

alrighty. well thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday and bought me a drink.
thanks to Shooting Blanks for inviting us out once again. always a good time with u guys.
thanks to Ed and the Mutiny bartenders. Rhonda and Maryann maybe???? i can’t remember their names exactly. sorry ladies. u know we luv u. thanks to Leo for coming down from WI to see us.
thanks to Jessica for riding with us and keeping me amused while driving and for being our #1 loudest fan. hope u enjoyed Mr Pig cuz Satan and Rob will probably never want to play it again. hahahaha.
thanks to Brendan from Last Man Out(RIP) who showed up totally unexpected. good to see ya man. keep in touch for sure.

hmmmmm, i think thats about it. nah. actually, i’m going to give a big ‘fuck u’ to everyone who said they were gonna come out to the show and didn’t for whatever reason. Steve you’re all good man cuz u got a real excuse.

ok. thats it. i’m out.

-ERIK
well this show seemed better then most. got pretty ripped.
i woke up around 5 pm. i had a hairy friday night, got pretty drunk on schlitz ice and jager and got home at 4 am, thought id be going to bed and was tired but things got out of hand and i was up until like 8am. so i got up saturday afternoon and i was hungry but i had no food in the house so i ate 2 pieces of toast with honey. that clearly didnt do it for a fat ass like me and i was getting pissed. i trucked over to robs (can you ‘truck’ 1 block?) and got ready to throw down a rehersal. our last show was just over a month ago and we hadnt rehersed. that might sound sloppy or unprofessional, but weve been playing nearly 8 fuckin years together and we can play almost perfectly after taking like 6 months or more off (believe me, ive tried it). well we argued over the set list and hilger was naming some weird ones, but it was his b-day so i let him have his way. tho once we played the weird songs i was getting into it and it seemed alot more fun. we practiced and it was super hot and humid out for some reason, rob was even running a dehumidifier in his basement and he said it had been filling up with fuckin gallons of water, we all sweat super bad. so we loaded up the truck and got ready. i had been playing a shit load of acoustic guitar the days before and my hands were hurting but they felt good again when we rehersed. i love reherseing before shows, its real good for priming up your voice. also it seemed like i just restrung my main axe recetnly but now i rezlie it must have been a while, the strings were foul as fuck. so i used to windex and a rag and scrubbed off like a huge layer of filth and they felt way better tho. however i know all the tricks of the trade cause im a master(bater) and you can only do the windex trick once. i always leave my #1 axe (maroon jackson ps-4) at robs to reherse with and when we go to shows i grab a 2nd guitar from my house. so after the show i was drunk and put the #1 back in robs basement tho i shouldnt have, i need to bring it home and restring that bitch for our next gig in 2 weeks. tomorrow ill have to go over there and cop it, it needs some TLC.

well we loaded out and trucked over to the mutiny. we got there real early and hilger got prime parking. i already knew were i was going, to sonny’s across teh street to cop some pizza. rob and hilger came with, hilger wasnt hungry but rob got a slice. then hoffman came in and got 2 slices, even tho hes the smallest of us. it must have looked funny to see the fat guy eating one slice and the little guy eating 2. and he was so special they put his 2 slices on a big actual plate while mine was in the basket like alwyays. i think thats the 3rd time ive eaten there before a mutiny gig and its become a ritual . i like that place alot. the pizza isnt bad but its not that special. hoffman commented that it reminded him of the pizza you get at outdoor fests and shit and thats not too far off. i could have ate 2 slices but i alwasy try to eat light before i play, plus i wanted to get super drunk. i did.

so we went back and started drinkin. i knew we were playing 2nd which is good, that means im only going to be waiting 1 hour max, and even if i drink heavy since im an alcoholic with a pickled liver i cant get so buzzed in an hour that it will effect my playing. so the mutiny is famous for giving 2 mini pitchers to each band member. the mini pitchers hold 32 oz i guess….well now they only give 2. which is still generous since many places give you zero drink specials at all. the bottom lounge gave you half price all night, tho it was so awesome to play there i would pay full price no problem. anwyasy so they only give you 2 now but they also have these huge glass mugs as well, which i guess are also 32 oz. i think i drank both of my free ones and a few shots of jager and then we went up. hilger tossed a fin into the juke box, they have alot of good jams in there. he didnt have a $5 so i gave him one and he promised to pay it back, he forgot…i remembered but didnt care since it was his b-day. we also got paid $20 and i let him have it, tho rob might want to beat him up for his $6.33 share, but if hes nice he will let him have it for his b-day as well.

we played ‘mr pig’ which we have not played in ages. at practice i couldnt rememebr teh words tho i knew if i listend to the cd once it would suddently come back to me. i didnt get to listen to the cd at robs but when we played it it was super easy and i remembered all the lyrics anyways. the other weird one we played was ‘think about it’. i remembered both verses which i coudlnt at robs, but i couldnt remember the pre-chorus (which is sung twice, same lyrics both times). however since im a master front man i just sang gibberish and the crowd was none the wiser. i dont even think my band knew. hilger was drinking so much jager before and during the set it was sick by my standards, and im fatter and drink more then him usually anwyays. i think he drank at least 3 more shots during the set. i cried and complained on the mic that i wanted it to be my b-day so i could get some free shots and brey bought me one which was dope. it didnt exactly go down smooth but it was still enjoyable. at our last show we also played with shooting blanks and at that gig i bought brey a shot and i poured it into his mouth while he was in mid song. in return for this he promised to depants himself and drop trou which he did both times, tho hes been doing that for years and would do it sober. but we both deny our gayness but trading the ass shots for liquor. tho i guess if you do homosexual things for booze that makes you even more latently gay. and it makes me a gay-enabler. anways.

the set was awesome. by the last song i was running out of steam a lil but i was ok. then we added a cover, ‘where was i’ by guttermouth. we probably know 30 misfits songs and 15 guttermouth songs, tho we havent played any g-mouth in a while even at rehersal. they are probably low profiles #1 influence. i know mark is my #1 vocal influence at least originally. hilger suggested we bust it out at rehersal before the show and im thinking ‘theres no way i remmeber this’ tho granted the song is like a minute and a half and simple anyways. i did jam it perfectly and knew the words at practice. i teased steve from ATF before our set to try and get him guess the band and/or song. i told him it was a mid90s punk rock band , and the song is about atomic bombs althought this band is not political. he guessed face to face which was very good guess i thought tho of course he was wrong. steve knows his punk rock pretty well, this is the 2nd show when i saw him and i was drunk and he was sober. i get to play with him at our next gig and he better get smashed and have his wife drive him home cause hes making me feel guilty.

oh yeah this is out of order. before us was pistol punch. i didnt know what to think of this band before hand. i thought they were some goofy sideproject of hoffmans, which they are neither a sideproject nor goofy. hoffman plays the drums which seemed crazy, but hes defniately very proficient at the drums, not just some asshole who plays guitar trying to bang out beats (like is about all i can do). he is no longer in the band so he was filling in on drums in a reunion of sorts. coincidentally, dan from shooting blanks was also on teh drums for their set. but pistol punch was solid and fun, and played ‘american band’ by grand funk railroad. they have that definete rock influence. during one song hoffman broke robs pedal (he was using his drums) and the guitarist broke a string. then a few songs later the bassist strap came off. i went on there and put it back on. then somehow the other end of the strap came off! i put it back on again but it was weird cause i could feel teh strap and it was quality, the leather wasnt destoryed or anything or super loose. they were good humoured and good natured guys and alot of fun.

also hilger ordered up a case of earplugs from his work. now hilger never wears ear plugs but i always do because my hearing is ruined from not wearing them for so long. i wear them religiously when i go to shows or when i watch other bands playing the same bill as me…i cant wear them when i play. well a while back i found the best brand ever of earplugs, they are called ‘max light’. i think they are made by a company called howard leight. i get them from my dad who also ganks them from his work. rob agrees they are the best, becuase they are so soft and mushy you can roll them up tight and get them in your ear deep, and they expand perfectly and really fill up your whole ear, and they also stay in because of this. the only bad thing is that they come on a string, so like if you work in some industrial place you can take them off and hang em around your neck on breaks or whatever. well hilger never uses earplugs so he didnt even know about these, and he ordered some random ones and he got the max lights!!! i was ecstatic, tho i have like 30 pairs now from my dad (and i can always get more). but its even better….hilger got ones without the string, which i didnt even know existed! i always bite off the plastic string. but people shold protect their hearing. i didnt wear them probably to our 1st 50 gigs and ive probably seen at least 50 shows and not worn them. 100 shows has fucked up my hearing pretty bad, espically since i always go up front and ive got stuck in front of amps or PAs more then once. my hearing is bad and i always wear them now and i enjoy it, ear ringing sucks real bad anwyays.

well the 3rd band was bruiser. i must admit i did not watch this band, i was intent on getting very ripped because i have personal demons that need to be drowned in alcohol and liquor and booze daily to maintain my sanity. my boy ‘bones’ came down from wisconsin with his buddy derrick. bones grew up in the grove but he moved up to adams county wisconsin like 6 months ago and hes staying. i was really glad he came out. derrick is a cool dude that has always lived up there who bones met. bones also brought his sheisty ex girlfriend nichole who i do not really like. like me bones has personal demons and being in the city only gets him into trouble with drugs and sheisty hoes so i prefer for him to stay in wisconsin and i get up there to visit when i can and we always stay in touch. but i didnt watch bruiser cause i was preoccupied, mostly with getting plowed which i did. but bruiser is real good, i listened to their mp3s before the show, they also have a former drummer from local H which is cool. i think one of the members is also a recording engineer and has engineered a shooting blanks album, and thats how they know them and got this gig. 2 of the members gave us mad props and we exchanged stickers and cds with them after our set.

well last up was shooting blanks. i feel like i should just copy and paste what i said from the last time we played with them. this was our 9th time playing together, plus i was in the band for a while and so was hilger at another time. they are definately highly crew with low profile. they are one of a handful of bands who i can watch play before i go on, when im anxious to play, and ill forget about having to play cause i enjoy watching them play so much. i will say i need to listen more the ‘the sticky album’ because they keep playing new songs and i dont know them well enough yet. but they played a ton of old songs and they sounded so great. another thing i know ive said before is that it still seemes strange to see deech play the bass, even tho i havent played bass for them in a long ass time. kind of like seeing your girl or ex wife with another dude, even if you get along with them youre jealous. getting to play bass with this band and reherse with them and get drunk and hang out was a life changing experienece. im so glad i got to do that. but they are so racous now its crazy. brey gets so drunk during his set its unreal. he was pouring vodka from a bottle be snuck in into 7up he was getting from the bar, he downed many jager shots during his set and 32 oz mugs of beer. i dumped jager straight into his mouth and of course he showed his ass. so i had already brought him a shot and others were bringing him drinks and hes drinking other shit he borught up there. then hes like ‘get me 2 shots and a beer and ill pay you back after the set’. im like no way dude! i didnt feel like bustling thru the crowd again which was hard enough already plus i was drunk and tired plus i wanted to watch the band. plus i thoguht he might keel over! he drank like 10 drinks during his set! then he asks steve to get them and he said no and he busts out a credit card and he like waving it at us! hahahahahaha hilarious. it was awesome to see dan back with the band and hang out with him. this band rules big time, it was really fun to be smashed and watch them play.

so thats about it. i get sick of writing these damn reviewws cause i have to type so much and it pours out so fast my fingers can hardly keep up. thats why i dont give a shit anymore if stuff is misspelled or whatever, fuck off. great show, our 6th time at the mutiny and it was huge fun. big up to nikki sixx of the love dictators, thanx for the shirt dog (tho hilger still has mine, i got to get it off him). big up to brendan from last man out (RIP), they were aweosme. big up to betty burbank of the burbanks (RIP), even tho she missed our set.

–satan165

i took off of work on Friday for no particular reason. had a great day off. Saturday was a pretty great day too. we met up at Rob’s at 7:30 and loaded up for the show. got to the Mutiny at about 8:30. we loaded in and were greeted by Rhonda and soon after, our friend Nikki(Kurt) who works Mutiny showed up. then we went across the street to get some pretty yummy pizza with very crunchy crust. i was looking forward to getting it all day. after eating, i was ready to start drinking. went back over to Mutiny and got a mini pitcher of beer and started doin shots of jager. band members get 3 free drinks a piece but i think i got at least 6. can’t beat that.

so Steve Gattermayer offered us this show a while ago and we’d been looking forward to it since. all 3 members are just great guys. it was fun hanging out with them and shooting the shit about bands and whatnot. we got the whole history on King Diamond and Mercyful Fate, Deicide, Cheap Trick, Kiss, etc. i can talk about music and bands for hours and so can these guys. and they know a ton of shit i don’t cuz they’re all older and have been around it all longer. Steve was tellin us about shows he’s been to and i was in awe. anyways…they r all great guys and were super fun to hang out with and play with again.

they played first. the bassist used my amp and rocked a nice 5 string. they played a real good, solid set of originals and very fun covers. i recognized 4 or 5 of the originals that they played the last time we played with them or that Satan has played for me off their CDs. they covered a few Kiss songs. Deuce, Detroit Rock City and Black Diamond. they also covered Blue Oyster Cult and we were all yelling ‘More Cowbell’ thruout the whole thing. it was great!! Steve ripped the solos and was definately entertaining on the mic. just a blast to play with again all around.

we ripped thru our set next and it seemed a total blur.

Figure It Out
Arnold Palmer and Katie Holmes
Hotboxed
Solitaire
The Limitation
Walter Mander
The Will to Kill
Studio Nightmare
Coming Down (originally by PITS)
Boat Dreams From the Hill (originally by Jawbreaker)

it seemed we played pretty tight and i definately had a lot of fun. Eorl showed up and took pics for us. thanks a ton for that. we reimbursed him with free merch. we were definately surprised to see him. he requested we play ‘What I Failed To Mention’ but we’re a lil rusty on that so maybe next time. There was also an awesome black dude who laughed at himself for being black and liking heavy metal but was aweosme and he stayed for the whole night and closely watched all the bands. my mic cut out for whatever reason at some point during ‘the Limitation’ so me and Satan had to share his mic Beatles style. i was pretty much done singing my songs anyways and we can do without my shitty backups.haha.

so it was definately a fun night. playing the Mutiny always is. u never know what to expect.

-ERIK 

From : “satan165” [info@lowpro708.com]
To : “hilger” [sales@lowpro708.com]
Subject : Re: show review
Date : Mon, 9 May 2005 03:21:37 GMT

i just got done updating the site
eorl took so many fuckin pics it took me forever to go thru em all and it was hard to pick which to use
i still ended up using like 25-30 which is alot hahaha
he got a good shot of me jumping! check it!
i also reorgznied the venues page a lil
and also
when eorl asked us to play ‘for all the wrong reasons’ for some reason i had it my head ‘a moment to myself’
i dont know why!!!!!!!!!
i would have definately played for all teh wrong reasons, that song is easy
we shoudl also re learn a moment to myself, that song is crayz
i have to put the cd on i almost dont remmeber it at all

cya
eric

Low Profile live at the Mutiny in Chicago
Thursday April 1st
with Sparring

Great fucking day all around!!!!
Worked my 8 hours, got off at 4. Went home and chilled. We all met up at Rob’s at 8 and sat around watching the Gator Stoked DVD for a bit. Then we decided to start loading up and get on the road.
I got prime parking right in front. Satan and I loaded in. Paul, who booked us wasn’t there yet. But Allison, the bartender remembered seeing us play the Fireside with the Perps a few years ago. Pretty cool to run into her again. Paul showed up with his band and we all started bullshitting about our shows together and what everyone was doing. It was really great to see and play with his band, Sparring.
So the first band set up started their set. I swear they played like 15 minutes. It was pretty weird. Their style was very noisy. They had 2 guitars and drums. No bass. Pretty strange. Eorl told me that this was their first show and thats why they didn’t play very long. I guess they don’t really have too much stuff to play. We played second. I had a ton of room to move around in. Satan and Rob were crammed onto one of the lil stages and I had the whole other one to myself. I thought everything sounded good. I could hear everything clearly. Our set was something like this:

Arnold Palmer and Katie Holmes
Zamboni
Chimerical
Spreading Yourself Thin (PITS)
The Limitation
Walter Mander
American Nightmare (originally by the Misfits)
King of the Hill theme
Folsom Prison Blues (originally by Johnny Cash)
Milwaukee
Execution Style
Hybrid Moments (originally by the Misfits)
In The Zone

We rocked the fucking house! We added a few songs in there. Satan went right into the King of the Hill theme after American Nightmare unplanned and then went right into Folsom. The crowd loved it. Then after Execution Style, Paul is telling us that we can play 2 or 3 more songs. So I say we’ll play another Misfits song and ask what everyone wanted to hear. First I heard 20 Eyes but we don’t play that. Then I heard Angel yell out Attitude but we know it but don’t really enjoy playing it. Someone called out Last Caress. I would have been a lil rusty on that one. Then someone called out Hybrid Moments and Satan told him to come up and sing it. I don’t know this dudes name but he was cool about it. He took my mic and I didn’t know what to expect but he knew all the words and actually sang it pretty well and stayed in time with us considering he may not even be in a band and has never seen us or played with us before. So props dude. That was cool. Thanks for joining us for that song.
Then we were standing around and Jessica is calling out Mr. Pig and then Paul yells out In the Zone. We haven’t played that song in months but we did it anyways. It may have been a lil rusty on my part but it was still good. I gave a good intro by saying ‘this song is about smoking weed.’ Everyone cheered. U gotta luv that.
Sparring played last and took their time setting up. So I proceeded to drink and drink and drink. We just hung out and talked with everyone.
Sparring also play a very weird style of music. Long instrumental songs. They jam for sure. They all had a ton of pedals all over the place. They were crazy for sure. It was their second show.
We hung out a while after that. Kept drinking and mingling. We got paid $20 which sucks cuz u can’t split it 3 ways. So we all got $5 and then we had 2 sessions of rock/paper/scissors. First me and Satan went at it best of 3 and I won. So then I took on Rob and he beat me 2 in a row. So he got the extra fin. I suck!!! I can never win!! J/K. I had a blast. Thanks to Ed the owner. Allison and the other bartender chick. The hot chick watching the door and the dude who helped direct me drive my car out from being boxed in. Paul for inviting us out to play the show. Thanks to Jessica(good pics!!!), Angel, Eddie and his cousin, Andrew and Bill Knobs, Carrie and her crew, that dude who came up to sing Hybrid Moments, Nikki(Kurt). And everyone else who dug our set and cheered us on. I gave out a bunch of stickers so we should be getting some more hits on our site. Sorry we didn’t have CDs to give out. So thats it. Thanks for a great night.

–hilger

well back aroudn 1999 we met a band called the perps when we got booked with them at the fireside. we ended up playing a bunch of shows with them and they were really a bunch of great people. they got us some killer shows as well and they were always a joy to hang and jam with. well somewhere along the line we lost touch with them and then i guess their band broke up in 2001.

well about a month before this show, i got a weird email. it was from paul, the guitarist from the perps! it was a mass email he sent out (probably used the old perps mailing list) advertising for his new band and the launch of their site. i immediately emailed him back to congratulate him on the new band and ask him what was up. he ended up asking me if we wanted to play a gig with him right away and i was very eager to take it. luckily, we had no schedule conflicts and we took the gig.

the date of the show came around. we watched some awesome footage of jason jessee and gator rogowski skate in a pool on dvd at robs which got me pumped up. we loaded out and me and jessica rolled to the club. we copped some good parking and i took my shit inside. onyl 3 bands for the night which was awesome. the 1st band was already there and even half set up (we had already agreed with paul to play 2nd, and sparring 3rd.) i sat down at the bar and watched the door waiting for paul to walk thru, i was very excited to see him again for the first time in years. later i saw hilger and he asked if i said hello to paul. i was surprised that he somehow got into the club and around my watchful eye. he pointed him out. well lets say this. both me and paul have alot more hair then we did back in the day. while my shit is long his is curly and huge. i was actually nervous to approach him. me and hilger used to joke back in the day that paul was one of the nicest guys ever (which is absolutely true). hilger assured me that nothing had changed in the department. i approached him and gave him a hug and we caught up a bit. we later took a pic outside the club. good times.

well the first band went on and their set lasted like 10 minutes. i couldnt believe it was over so fast, but i have no arguments on that level. i was ready to jam! we ran up and set up our shit and before you know it we were rollin! eddie, one of hilgers old friends had showed up! he hadnt seen us in years either, and he even had seen us with the perps back in the day! he was right up front with his cousin — who incidentally works with wally, the ex-bassist from smear campaign. small world. and while were on the ‘small world’ subject….when i walked in a girl approached me and said ‘youre in low profile’. i asked how she knew that. she said that she went out with paul for like 3 years and had seen us play with them numerous times. then she told me that she bartended there, at the mutiny! turns out she was pauls contact for getting the gig.

‘arnold palmer and katie holmes’ i consider to possibly be my masterpiece of song writing but it can be hard to follow the math break and you have to do severe counting or youll throw off the whole band and ruin the song. we practiced it plenty ahead of time and opened with it — no flaws to speak of. it started getting a little hot in the back there but we forged on thru the set. we played ‘american nightmare’ one of my favorite misfits songs which we only recently learned. i dont remmeber what was actually on the set next but the rockabilly feel of that song inspired me to fuck the set list and roar into the theme from ‘king of the hill’ and then segue into ‘folsom prison blues’. it was definately a good idea. then we started asking for requests for more misfits songs. this one dude called out ’20 eyes’. i love that song but its one of few we dont know as a band. i told him to pick another and he chose ‘hybrid moments’. i told him to come up and sing backups or whatever. i was pretty tired and was hoping he could float the vocals for a minute while i caught my breath. ill put it this way — i dont think he could have carried the whole song very well by himself, but when he followed my lead he did absolutely great!

after the show i chugged a bunch of 7up and felt pretty exhausted. i louged around for a while at the bar with andrew and bill from the powerknobs (here with paul) who graciously came out to see us play. i was at the front of the bar by the front door and kind of boxed in which i liked since i was super tired and couldnt catch my breath from extreme thrashing. my neck was totally fucked also. i figured i ought to get some photos of sparring so i went up there. i had told paul i wanted to do this (as i take pics of all bands we play with usually) and he was equally as excited to get copies of the pics.

well i got to the back of the club and the first thing i notice is there is some passed out dude. i saw him earlier with his head in his hands leaning on a chair like a scrub. now he was laying across a bunch of chairs and his flailing legs had kicked our amps and kicked over my guitar cases. i yelled at him ‘hey watch it! what the fuck is wrong with you?’. no response, he was out cold. i put my gear back and kicked his feet hard. no response.

then i went up towards the band to take a quick 5-10 pics. i took a few and sparring was jamming. this this dude taps me on the arm. i turn around to see what he wants and he says ‘you doing that [taking the pics] is tottaly detracting from what they [the band] is trying to do’. as if they are some higher level of art and taking pics is not allowed? i dont fucking know. or care. i told him that it was never in my plan to stand there taking pics for more then 5 minutes anyways, and that also he is no fucking authority to be reprimanding me for taking pics. of course he clammed up then and nothing else to say. i took a few more pics out of principle and then rolled out.

we ended up getting paid $20 when i expected nothing. although there was a decent crowd i figure 10 other people or parties deserve the cash more then me or my band. but we took it and split it up. great show overall, what a blast. thanx for the gig paul. long live sparring!!!

–satan165