Show Journal 1998-12-19
The bad omen of the previous night’s show cast a black cloud over us again this evening. During the afternoon it started snowing in Seattle. By afternoon it turned to ice and by night time it was a genuine mess. The three other bands we were supposed to play with all cancelled and chose to stay at home. Not us though … we had to at least make an attempt to get to our waiting legions of fans in Fife, Washington. The deal was we agreed to try driving for 30 minutes … if it sucked we would turn around, if it was good we would keep going. Sounded good huh? Well, we made it about 5 blocks before we got snagged up in an a nasty mess of traffic, hills and ice. After sitting here and enduring all of the first Coolio album we chose to turn around and submit defeat to the weather gods. Turning around sounds simple enough but what you don’t know is that in an enormous van, filled with people, band equipment and 4 balding tires, turning around actually involves two hours of sliding, pushing, cursing and praying. In the end we ended up piling 8 people into a car which could take us back home. No show, no rock stardom and absolutely no fun for 800 Octane.
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