26th
WE’RE BACK!!!!! You know like Youth Of Today. But instead of talking about a lame reunion I am talking about lame shows in the past. Back to talking about all these old band posters related to my life that I have found.
Today we have another show from the High On Fire/Panthers/Mono/Coliseum tour, and this is the show we played at Emo’s in Austin, TX. Let me start off by saying, I am a grumpy man. I don’t love being around “people” a lot of times. Thus festivals are hard for me. Maybe even being in a touring band and/or doing comedy. But that is my life. But suprisingly. I really love SXSW. See lots of bands you would never see and you can check off your list, like Big Star or Metal Urbaine? check. Get free clothes somehow? check. Lots of free food and if you drink beer, but if you don’t you die of dehydration? check. Be able to run into all your friends in other bands from all around the world but only have to talk to them for the first fun 5 minutes and not all the annoying minutes after in what is known as a “conversation” because everyone is running somewhere? check. I like it.
This was NOT at SXSW. And these are the times I am not as in love with Austin. I know a lot of people who really love the place. And maybe I need to go when I am not playing in a band. But without the insanity of SXSW, Austin and the surrounding area of Emo’s just feels exhausting to me. I have no interest in keeping Austin weird. I don’t want to keep any place weird. We can keep every place normal as long as I don’t have to see Jester hats and old burnouts. And yes Austin is the music capital of the world. But what that seems to translate is every bar and tiny club has some bastardization of Stevie Ray Vaughn bar rock that I am not interested in. But I digress.
So this was one of the larger shows on the tour. We were playing the back area of Emo’s which I believed held 800-1000 people who all looked like they were former members of Nashville Pussy. I remember playing fine. But I also remember selling possibly the smallest amount of merchandise for the entire tour this night. Nothing like selling 1 cd and MAYBE 1 shirt to over 800 people. Makes you really question your choices and the fact that you bent over backwards to get on that tour. Those can be the hardest nights of tour. You are really missing your significant other, the conversation has run dry in the van, but the stink of 4 dudes has increased tenfold. Music itself is starting to sound like the worst thing in the world, and all you are looking for is one person to give you 10 bucks for a CD to put some sort of justification on all the choices you have made in the past 10 years of your life.
Suffice it to say I was in a bad mood the entire time. This was also one of the nights I ate alone like a sad man, walking to the one Mexican restaurant that I eat at every time, so I could wallow in both my crapulance and in cheese enchiladas with green sauce.
on the up side I really liked this posters design. Big fan of darker prints on black paper(Orchid once made black printing on black stickers which was both the biggest dick move and one of the more awesome stickers) and it is one of the multiple posters from this tour that I still have hanging up in my apartment.
