Show Journal 2006-02-17
Kind of an old school reunion tonight. We played with 8 Foot Tender for the first time since … drum roll please … October 1997. I didn’t recall their singer being so amusing but he made me laugh out loud a few times. The MRNB (aka the OCKNB) rocked it tonight. We’ve actually known them since … even longer drum roll … July 1997. In fact some of you might be interested to know that their singer J, who was in another band at the time, played at our very first show in Portland. Lyle and Brent were in another band called Bomf! That we played with numerous times from ’97 to ’99. Lyle actually played guitar for us for a bit before we got Justin and Brent helped facilitate the embalming tool photos from ‘Rise Again’ (yes, those were real). Their other guitar player Kelly actually did all the cover artwork for our album ‘The Kelvis’. Talk about knowing a band for a long time! They sounded really good tonight and as always were a pleasure to watch. We were up third and did ok. No highlights and no lowlights, just a fun and solid show. 48 Thrills headlined and sounded great. They are definitely worth checking out live if you are in the area. Catchy sing along punk rock. The only thing that was lame tonight (other than the 20 degree load out) was all the fights. Of course whenever you see a shirtless guy in the pit you just know something bad is going to go down. Thanks go to 48 Thrills for inviting us to play, the Hawthorne Theater for having us, Stephen Morgan and his Richland crew for the commute and everyone else who watched us play.
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