Category: irving park

low profile live at nite cap
november 16th 2005
w/ no class citizen and the symptoms
well ive been playing shows for a while now and of the tons ive played, we booked 99%. its not often that we get asked. well for this one we did by mikey from rose red productions. i must question teh use of the nickname ‘mikey’ however. but whatever. i figured rose red had beef with low profile since i know darius dont like me. thats fair cause i dont like him that much. for backstory, check out the show reviews from our lyons den gigs. we i get an email one day asking if we want to play a show with no class citizen and shooting blanks. well this would be our 10th gig with shooting blanks so you know i want to play it for that alone. no class citizen is part of the turkey vulture records roster out of milwaukee. we met this band called new society of anarchists a few years ago when we got a gig with DRI. the singer/bassist for NSA is teh singer of no class citizen. and the guitirst for NSA runs turkey vulture. weve been involved with turkey vulture for a while now, being part of their ‘the harder the better’ series of compiations. look for vol. 11 (our 4th!) coming soon. so i definately wanted to support this band as they stopped in chicago. unforunately like 2 weeks before the show matt from shooting blanks told me that they couldnt do the gig becuase they were locked into studio time to record some new tracks for an upcoming comp. luckily he ended up getting the symptoms which is awesome because they are our boys too. and i just heard the new shooting blanks tracks today ironically, and they are fucking awesome.

well mikey from rose red (thats him on the far left) had told us to make flyers and send them to him which we did far in advance. he said to load in at 730 and doors opened at 8. as it turned out this wenesday was like the 1st official day of winter. the high that day was like 25 fucking degrees. that combined with a mid-week show…i knew the turnout wouldnt go that great. we threw down a rehersal before we loaded out and got to teh club right on time. not a single solitary soul in tehre besides 2 super hot polish bartenders. one was literally fire hot. this pic doesnt do her justice entirely. she had that long ass sweater buttoned up at first and you could only see a little bit of the cleavge but it still ruled. and check the iced out wrist! goddamn! but actually she was super cool and nice bartender. we loaded in our gear and chilled out. me and rob walked down teh street to get some loot from an ATM. when we got back mikey was there and he said we could play first. i love playing first and being teh veteran of the game that i am i know that the #1 slot is often most wanted by bands. so if i get there early and get a crack at playing first, then you got to start setting up your gear immedinately cause that shit will be pulled out from under you real quick. mark my words, as soon as the symptoms and no class citizen showed up they were asking the order and i know they wanted to play first. the symptoms were actually billed as the headliner on rose red’s site so they did play last. but backing up, we got there on time like we were told to at 730. i think mikey got there at like 830 and the bands after that. we chilled with the symptoms and what not and had some drinks to get warmed up. we didnt start playing till like 10. thats what we get for being professional and following fucking orders. then mikey makes some crack to me about the flyers, i asked if he got them and he said ‘oh…you mean those little handbills?’. because we printed them 4 to a sheet. this is to save paper and what fucking difference does it make how big the piece of paper a potential crowd member carries around in his pocket? if he wanted posters to hang on the walls he should have asked or emailed me back and i coudl have sent him a blown up copy that could be printed full size.

no class citiezen was super cool guys and i talked with their singer zakk for a while. we talked about why emo and screamo is garbage. i told him my theory is that the screamo kids are the ones that made fun of me for listening to slayer in 7th grade and now all these screamo bands quote slayer as an influence. he said they’ve been playing with a bunch of ‘tight pants’ bands lately which sucks for him. we listened to a bunch of good music in teh juke box including some maiden and suicidal tendencies and also slayer. this dude is totally cool and down to earth, even back in like 2001 or whatever when we met him during the DRI show i was very intimidated by their band but he was totally cool and gave us props and everything. the whole band was super chilled and great guys and me and hilger were hookin em up with free merch like mad

well i started things up and killed 2 heinikens maybe before our set. my mind was highly stressed and i wanted to get ripped. i drank another beer on stage and our set went well i thought.

will to kill
the limitation
walter mander
figure it out
spinal remains (misfits)
arnold palmer and katie holmes
milwaukee
the nature of the way things work
hotboxed

we never opened with will to kill and weve played it at like the past 20 shows or something it seems like. spinal remains it the best misfits song ever i have long thought and im still on the misfits tip from our last gig on halloween. ‘the nature of the way things work’ is like 34 seconds long from our 1st album and we havent played it llve in a super long time. milwaukee is always a favorite tho we havent played it for a while, we had to for our friends no class citizen from teh great white north.

so after the gig i was feeling really shitty mentally so i really started to hit the booze hard. ive been getting increasingly belligerently drunk at our last few shows which is one of a few reasons i know we need to take some time off. i started to pound some jager and buy shots, i spent over $60 all night at the fucking bar. they gave us 2 free drinks but i didnt even get to use one of em which sucked. i had a long talk with tony kovac from shot baker about ear plugs. i wear ear plugs religiously at all shows except when im playing, but he wears them even when he fucking reherses and described really fucked up symptoms he gets when he doesnt wear em. i thought my hearing was bad but his is certifiably fucked. he also made the connection with me that the bassist in shot bakers girlfriend is a friend of one of my ex girlfriends from a long fucking time ago. tony is a cool guy and i think hes pretty respected personally and for his band. hes a good singer and it was cool to level with him for a minute right there and i enjoyed it.

no class citizen went on stage next and fuckin ripped it. they were off the chain rowdy with wild metal riffs and crushing vocals. they are even more metal then NSA and really nuts. their guitarist rocked the jackson and you know i have mad love for that. zakk gave some awesome intros to their songs and i think they were pumped up even tho the crowd was thin. the symptoms went up after then and got crazy. they played a pretty long set and the usual super complex riffs. by that point i was really drunk and i went on stage before they started and was talking shit into the mic and telling everyone to fuck off and making fun of andy’s guitar strap. i was quoting ‘the deer hunter’ big time now, which i find myself doing everytime i get drunk lately. alcohol and bad mind states and the deer hunter just go hand in hand for me. this pic is good cause i know for a fact i was subjecting zakk to some DHBS (deer hunter bullshit) at the moment.

at the end of the symptoms set i had had quite a few heinikens and some jager and plenty of bad vibes in my brain. the symptoms asked me to come up and sing a misfits song with them. i played a show with them a while back at this same club, we did the misfits ‘walk among us’ all teh way thru and i sang it and they played the music. well i was standing up there laughing and being out of it and we were discussing what to play. someone said ‘devils whorehouse’ and that was shot down. ken in his typical style started ripping the beat to ‘all hell breaks loose’. i was ok until the 2nd verse and i fell apart and lost it. i was singing the chorus in teh verse and everything else. i felt pretty stupid but i would not have wanted to play that. no doubt i should have been more prepared and all the other times we rehersed or played that song it was easy. then i demanded that we play ’20 eyes’ which would have been my fucking choice from teh getgo. of course we ripped it. [pic 1, pic 2, pic 3, pic 4] then tony got on his high horse and said that i butchered ‘all hell breaks loose’ and how he could have done it better. well tony im sure you could have. the ironic thing is that the symptoms told me they asked me to do that misfits cover show with them because they wanted to ask tony but shot baker was on tour. and now this kid is talking some shit to me. well i cant fucking please everyone. you can sing all teh misfits songs you want and when youre done crawl inside my head. then we will see who can ‘do it better’. no odubt i should be secure enough to not worry about it becuase ive played 1 million misfits songs in my life, including low profile recording this track back in like 1999 but it bothered me tho i know he was kidding around. i felt pretty depressed at that point and knew i was crashing hard off the booze and depression. we got into the van with no class citizen and listened to gorilla biscuits and i slurred the lyrics as i sang along and pounded the walls of the van in a rage. [pic 1, pic 2, pic 3, pic 4, pic 5, pic 6, pic 7] all those guys smoked up a bunch of bowls but of course i dont do that shit no more and i have not smoked the green herb in a long fucking time. not sure if that adds to my depression or makes it better. that was pretty fun being in the van with those guys and i tried to tell them that i hope that even tho the show sucked and had zero turnout we did promote and at least i hope they had a memorable night in chicago. they said they did and hopefully they were not lying.

and that was it. i went home and ate some pasta and spinach. i put on an NYPD blue in my dvr but only watched 15 minutes and i was feeling real fucked up and tired and i went to bed. 2005 was a pretty good year for shows as compared to other years. we played some new venues and some classic old ones. we played with alot of our friends and made some new ones as well. all this shit sounds cliched but whatever, its fucking true. for the last gig on halloween hilger wrote the whole review himself and this time he told me to do it. so we will not play another show until 2006 and maybe until spring. this was an interesting gig to close the year out on and at the least we played with some good bands. i think our set was pretty good as well so i cant complain. its funny cause for like the first 20-30 low profile shows ever i used to get so anxious and pumped up i would never drink alcohol before the show. sometimes i would kill some drinks afterwards. maybe in 2006 ill start not drinking at all at shows anymore and just suck down 200 glasses of 7up or various other sodas.

well thats it. no more reviews or updates for a while. stay tuned and join the mailling list cause then youll know when we/I come out of hibernation somtime next year. take care of yourself. ill see ya when i see ya.

–satan165