19th
This is the first poster from the High On Fire/Mono/Panthers/Coliseum tour that I am putting up. First of many. This is one I would have liked to have actually gotten a copy of. Either way, this is from the first proper show of tour. We started off in San Diego I believe. And then played LA the next day where we were also playing some FUSE show “The Daily Habit” at 8 in the morning. Which consisted of us playing in a half pipe on some sound stage, right after Josh, our guitarist at the time, had puked his brains out on the LA Freeway after raging too hard the night before. And we were dealing with the hecticness of flying in and getting our van and picking up the equipment we had shipped out. But this was the first show out of anyone’s home base, which always feels like the start of real tour. My biggest recollection of this tour was having my first conversation with Matt Pike where I mentioned I don’t drink and he explained that he was like a little devil on my shoulder and by the end of tour I would be a lush. I was not a lush don’t worry.
Also the venue, The Brickhouse in AZ felt a little bit like a sports bar with a big stage and a terrible sound system. This tour Jeff Salane and Justin Chearno did not make it out, so Panthers was down to two original members aka me and Jay Green and slowly turning into Napalm Death with no original members. Joe “Sticks” Stickney and Josh Anzano were amazing on the tour but we were still getting used to playing with each other. We sounded awful and I was worried we were going to be terrible all tour. We were not.
