Saturdays show was so much better than Fridays
the entire story:
I'm coming around the corner next to the Showbox and i see this line of kids that must
stretch all the way to fucking Pioneer Square. I'm not really looking where i'm going
cause i'm craning my neck to see where the end of the line is and muttering "fuckin'
shit" to myself when i notice out of the corner of my eye that i'm about to smack into
somebody and i look up and it's Isaac. We dodge each other, he gives me a pissed off
look, and all the "woah dude, that was isaac" banter allows me cut into the front of
the line. hehe.
I get inside, have a beer, and wait for my friends to show up. The plastiq phantom guy
is spinning on stage and it's really not what i'm in the mood for at all. So i wander
over to the t-shirt table and notice that they are selling the M&A on vinyl, which is
what i had been running around Capitol Hill all fucking afternoon looking for and not
finding. Only now i have no cash on me. Fuck.
My friends show up and i decide to go sit on the side of the stage to watch watch
Califone. I dunno what you people who were dissin' Califone were thinkin', cause these
guys are really kool. All weird slow twang-groove. I was really diggin' it and the
rest of the crowd was too. The songs kinda sounded all the same, but it was a great
sound. The singer guy said the banjo guy was gone cause he lost his hand and the show
was dedicated to him and if anybody out there finds it to put it in a plastic bag. The
other guitarist for MM played with them. I was expecting crap from these guys after
what i heard on the list, but you fuckers are way off. I think i'm gonna buy an
album.
Some asshole rodie decides that he has to put a speaker (not in use) right where i'm
sitting on the side of the stage, so i've lost my primo spot to see the mouse. I run
around looking for another good place while the boys take the stage.
I end up near Isaac, but not close enough to talk to him. They start playing, i start
my tape, the crowd goes wild. I'm not really happy with where i am situated so i move
back to the other side of the stage, an manage to get a little closer, but i'm right
in front of one of the big-ass P.A. speakers thats kicking out a ton off bass and
since i like my ability to hear sounds and i'm trying to make a decent tape of the
show, i decide to move up to the bar at the left side of the stage. I lose some
intimacy, but i have a graet view of Isaac and i can set my recorder down in stead of
holding it up in the air.
The boys looked alot better than they did on Friday. Isaac is happier, talking to the
crowd making jokes and shit. after the third song he asks the crowd for super glue to
fix his cut pinky. The show fucking rawks, especially when "i came as a rat" flows
into "tundra". Holy shit.
Here's the set list, or most of it (i was retarded and only brought a 60 min. tape.
Fuck me.)
1. What people are made of
2. Out of gas
3. Third planet
4. Doin the cockroach
5. Tiny cities made of ashes
6. Custom concern
7. All nite diner
8. Alone down there
Umm... shit, i'd love to tell you the rest but my walkman just died and i'm at skool
and gots no batteries left. sorry. I'll post the entire thing later if anyone wants
it.
Anyway, they played some more songs and kicked ass with a "Cowboy Dan" encore. A truly
great show. I hope somebody out here got a better recording than i did, and will post
it.
Then this happened:
After the show, my friend and i decide to go out for a drink. Somebody
suggests the Nitelite so we all go there. It 50's nite or something and not only are
there free cheese and crackers and fruit and shit, but drinks are half price all nite.
Hellz yeah. And if that isn't kool enough, John Atkins from 764-HERO comes in and i
strike up a conversation. We talk about the new 764 album and stuff and he asks me if
i went to the mouse show, and i told him yeah, both of em, friday nite kinda sucked,
blah, blah, blah. Then he says, well i'm meeting them here later and i'm like "oh
really?" and trying to be casual and shit. I decide to stick around a while longer.
So eventually, Eric comes in and looks around for John and his little gang, but they
had left like 10 minutes before. I want to talk to him but he's got some
groupie-lookin' chick hanging all over him sucking up his attention. Then Isaac comes
in with that guy who looks kinda like him who was doing video and stuff. As he was
waiting for his drink, i tell Isaac that they were really fucking on tonite, way
better than last nite and he says: "Yeah, you can only take so much smoke blown up
you're ass till you wanna hear the bad shit." and then promptly ignores me. I dunno
what to make of it so i go back to my table. Later a friend of mine talks to him for a
minute and he tells her that jocks were spitting on him and shit on at fridays show.
Later i talked to the video making guy (he told me his name but i forget it) for
awhile and he tells me that, yes, he's making a movie and us people will be able to
see it eventually. Kool. Umm...Jeremiah was never there...eventually the mouse !
entourage left to go to another bar and i wasn't geeky enough to follow them.
Did anyone else go to this show?
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-dave
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