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i took off work all day on Friday which was awesome. i got to chill all day long pretty much and it was muchly needed. i watched Empire Strikes Back which i haven’t watched in over a yr or so. then i put on my Rage Against the Machine live DVD before i left to go meet up at Rob’s house. that shit got me so pumped. usually i put on some Slayer live but the RATM does the trick.

so we met up at Rob’s at 7:30. we brought our buddy Dave Metko with to help load and to take pics and for comic relief. what a guy. so we loaded up my work van and headed for Cal’s. we got there right around 8:30 and we were the first band to get there. i just chilled in the van for like 20 minutes listening to music since i knew no one else was there. we loaded in and right when we were finishing up, Miles of Wire started loading in. Rules of Attraction all showed up shortly after that. i snapped a good pic of Mike and Satan and we were laughing at how good their shirts (bright red and blue)contrast in the pic. fucking awesome. and doesn’t Mike look like the happiest guy ever in all his pics?

so we sat around bullshitting and whatnot till a lil after 10 when Miles of Wire started their set. these guys are from St Louis. they played a good rocking set. the bassist played a real nice old school Rickenbacker bass. they were all just real cool guys and were fun to hang out with.

we played second and started around 11 or so. our set was something like this:

Milwaukee
High Gravity
Hotboxed
Excited to Die
Spreading Yourself Thin
What I Failed to Mention
the Will to Kill
King of the Hill theme
Folsom Prison Blues (originally by Johnny Cash)
Rules of Attraction (originally by the Rules of Attraction)

so all 3 of us really like RofA a lot. and i’d have to say that the Rules of Attraction is probably my favorite song by them. so Satan mentioned that we should learn one of their songs. that one seemed the best for us to cover. so we played it in tribute to them since we think they rule so much. and hopefully our surprise was better than the pit of Sarnack.

the set went by pretty quick. there was this crazy drunk dude watching us and he kept yelling shit out. he was like trying to have a conversation with me while i was trying to play or in between songs. i had to tell him to hush up till we were done with our set. at one point, i just started yelling lyrics right up to his face. my face must have been about an inch from his and i was yelling out the lyrics to Milwaukee as loud as i could. it didn’t even seem to phase him. after a show, we all sit and talk about the highlights of the show and all that and both Rob and i said separately that we thought Excited to Die was the best song and is always good to play live. everyone always loves when we play Folsom and we hadn’t busted that out at a show in a while. i get bored playing it but if people are going to sing along and all that, then it makes it more fun for me.

Rules of Attraction played last and started around midnight or so. they ended up finding their old set list hanging on the wall from the last time they played there and they played the same exact songs from it. i thought that was cool. Mike was even telling me that one song in the set list they haven’t played since September of 2004. pretty crazy. their set rocked as i knew it would. these guys are just a great band. super nice and cool guys, great songwriters/musicians. i’m just in awe of all 3 of them. Andy is one of the most fun bass players to watch. his style is just so natural. he makes playing bass so easy. he plays with a pick and his pickhand just moves so naturally. and he plays an Ernie Ball bass so u know i’m luvin that. all in all, this band rules and i hope we can play with them again one day. i’ll have to go see them again at least. we’re even talking about covering a Monsignors song. i’m all for Aniston Amuck!!!!

so we gave out a bunch of CDs, stickers and tshirts. there was this homeless guy walking around outside with no shirt on so i gave him a shirt just cuz it seemed like he could really use a nice new clean shirt. the bartender made a comment about how nice that was of me. there was this cool punker chick from California hanging out that night with her dog and she let me sticker her skateboard. Cal’s actually set up some tables outside the place kinda like a lil beer garden so it was cool to just go sit out there and watch the people goin into the club next door. good stuff. we smoked a nice peach flavored blunt on the drive home and jammed along to the Mad Caddies live album. i think i’ve played that on the way home from the past 3 shows or so. it’s just fun cuz we were all singing along to it while we’re all pretty ripped. hahahaha. good times……

so thanks to the Rules of Attraction for inviting us out to play this show. thanks to Cal’s for having us out. and thanks to Metko for helping us lug our shit in and out of the van and for taking pics of us while we played. i had a blast. great show. great bands. fun crowd. can’t beat that. till the next show…..

-ERIK

i just want to add a few things:
1. thanx to pat from the phenoms for stopping by
2.this dude was roaming around trying to take poloriods of people and then sell them the pics. we thought it would be pretty deep to take a picture of the guy that takes pictures. well not really i guess.
3. mike broke his A string during ‘smoke’, which requires teh a-string big time. he tied it around his neck as he attempted to finish the song.
4.
a. he played my gutiar after that which was a total trip, i did this once before (w/ matt from shooting blanks) and its awesome to watch someone else play my guitar, like dudes that want to voyeur their wife getting fucked by other men. tho im not into all that.
b. i wanted to eat that chicks nice white thighs and ass like a pig in slop.
5. RofA came up to sing backups on their own song as we covered it, they did the ‘Cha!’s very well.

Very well.

–satan165

 

Low Profile live at Cal’s
Saturday November 8th
with the Powerknobs, the Paperbacks and Run Chico Run

This was an awesome show. I had a blast. Getting there was kinda weird. There r so many fucked up one way streets right around there that I couldn’t seem to get right in front of Cal’s on Wells street so I parked about 3 blocks away which was fine with me. That part of the city was dead. Many closed up bars and clubs and no one really out whatsoever. Cal’s is pretty crazy. It is very small and got very crowded quick which was great. We were doing shots out of paper Dixie cups which was weird but fine with me.

Right off the bat, thanks go out to the Powerknobs for booking us. When Bill offered the show, we gladly accepted right on the spot. Then I’ll thank Lisa and Jessica, my sister and Kelly, Scott, Dan (here with Rob) and Rocky.

We played first which was great for all of us. Our set was pretty awesome and people seemed to get into it. We played:

Hot Mom
What I Failed To Mention
All the Wrong Reasons
Low Pro pt 1
Folsom Prison Blues (originally by Johnny Cash)
Walk Dont Run
King of the Hill (theme)
JPF
Solitaire
Think About It
Execution Style

Sorority Shakedown/Wild Colonial Boy (psyche out intro)

I think thats everything. The set was sort of a blur as most are but it was fun. Williams hung up our set list on the wall along with many others that bands have hung up over the years.

Run Chico Run were up next. They just had two members and they just had a totally different sound from anything I’ve ever heard before. Both members were master musicians. I was talking with Joseph before the show and he was just an all around cool guy. Telling me about being on tour and playing up in Canada and getting harrassed at the border and other stuff. Their set was crazy for sure. They blew a fuse or something at some point and the power went out on all their equiptment but was soon fixed.

While they played, I made a break for it and went out to my car with a select few to smoke up. Then went back in for a few rounds of Jagr and more beer and I was feeling fabulous.

Next up was the Paperbacks. They were a 5 piece band with a wild chick singer. She is a great frontperson. Going wild, slamming into people, jumping up on the bar, etc. They played a real raucous set. The power went out while they played also. Too much shit plugged in or something.

The beloved Powerknobs played last. Their set was great. Very high energy and they got people dancing. Even Jon from Windy City Music was up front dancing along. My favorite song from their set of course was Cell Block Strut. They played Wild Colonial Boy also and rocked it to the fullest!!!!! They busted in to a lil ‘Javold’ at the end as well!!!

Much fun was had by all.

-ERIK

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the night before the show i had some major insomnia. which was bad, since we were going to practice as usual at noon on saturday. usually we wouldnt practice the day of a show but we wanted to run thru JPF at least since it would be our first time playing it live.

i got up at noon on only about 4 1/2 hours of sleep and went to practice. we ran thru the set and i went back home to try and chill. i was planning to go back to bed but ended up staying up. my girfriend came over and we made some grub and then i passed out at about 730. all day (and the week prior) i was trying to decide if i should take the train or drive or have her drive or what. i finally decided to drive there myself and fight for parking or pay, it was too cold to take the train. so i went to bad around 630 and told her to wake me up at 730. i woke up on my own around 745 and she wasnt even there. she showed up right after that and we left. then she forgot her ID and we had to turn back a couple miles from home. im not trying to rip on my girl in todays review but this shit was trying my patience. (here she is with rob). luckily 290 had zero traffic and cals is right off the exit. i rolled up on a nice parking spot about 2-3 blocks away and we were actually pretty early. i called ross from the knobs and he said he was on the way. we chilled in the car for minute then grabbed my gear and started walking over. rob pulled up as we were doing so and he found some parking too. then i saw dr. z and gaynor cruise by looking for a spot. we walked up to the club and bill was there with ross loading in. we loaded in to and checked out the joint, looked pretty tight. the guys from run chico run were already there and they were super nice. we met mike the bartender and ordered some PBR’s. the paperbacks showed up right then too and then hilger finally showed. (here he is with his girlfriend lisa and one of the guys from run chico run)

we went on first and the club was suddenly packed. i still am not sure who all those people came to see (not us!). we rocked out a hell of a set and it felt really good. i had good stamina and the songs were solid. i used bills amp and it sounded pretty good, although if i would have been able to turn it up more it would have sounded way better, but that bitch is fucking loud so it wasnt really possible. even rob was borrowing ross’s drums and hilger was using andrews bass amp! fucking awesome! total knobs style!

well after that we lounged around. run chico run was next. at first my reaction was ‘what the fuck?!?!?!’ but these guys are musical geniuses. there are only 2 dudes in the band. they had a few different configurations and both of them can play all insturments. they started out with 1 dude on keys and the other on drums, but the drummer would sometimes play with one hand and be jammin bass riffs on a lil keyboard by the drums. eventually one of them started playing guitars instead of keys. i think that they switched something in every single song. after the 3rd song or so i was diggin it, real smooth jazz shit with sometimes high falsetto vocals. these guys are from british columbia, canada and are super nice. they must have a hell of a time hauling so much gear around….seemed like they have wires everywhere.

next up were the paperbacks. they have a chick singer and play some racous rock n roll type punk. they were pretty good but their frontperson had the complex where they have to destroy mics and shit. thats uncalled for. ripping the mic out of the cable, fucking up the mic stands, etc…. as a coincidence (i think) the PA head just died after it lost power a couple times. i dont know if it blew a fuse or what but mike busted out another head and got the show back underway. that band was just crazy.

some guy noticed my BOLD tattoo sometime along this point and we started talking about new york hardcore. i pulled my sweaty show shirt (gorilla biscuits) out of my bin and showed him and he was loving that. i also went outside and took some random pics as at this point i was getting a lil buzzed off some guiness and jameson and jager. there is a crazy club next door called the crocodile room that was bumpin music real loud and had velvet ropes and everything outside. it was the total opposite of cals. there was a huge guy standing outside cals who i guess was a bouncer of sorts and i saw a porsche parked right infront of us. i jokingly asked if it was his — he said that ‘that’ was his ride (a bike). the crocodile room looks pretty high class.

well the mighty knobs were up last. cell block strut was definately the highlight. that has definately become my fav song of theirs. they ended with uncivilized with dr. z on vocals which was great. after that for an encore they became jimmy dumpling and the bitburg boys and busted out their hit song ‘javold’ with andrew on the keys and a gang of people singing along with dr. z and bill knobs. someone started spraying a rolling rock and it got me right in the face.

well i jetted soon after that and me and my girlfriend were dying from food deprivation. we had both eaten only once much earlier in the day. we went to jewel and copped some cream cheese and chips and some fish sticks. i mixed some of that cream cheese with some harry and davids onion and pepper relish i had been saving and ate that up. we made some tartar sauce and ate the fish and it was real good. another awesome show…what else can i say?

–satan165