Show Journal 1999-10-09
I can’t believe we hadn’t been to Bend in almost 2 years. The club has changed names but the town still seemed the the same. The drive down was interesting. Jim invented a new game called “freak the driver.” If you are familiar with Jerry Springer you can already imagine how this works. Here’s what you do, at some point during the drive (when you feel inspired) one of the passengers gets up and in true hoochie fashion you grind the back of the seat of the driver. It sounds stupid now and, well, it is. The show went pretty well. This was the first show where Jim was our “official” drummer and to mix things up even more we also had an appearance by Lyle, our “unofficial” guitar player. This was our first show as a 4 piece since 1996. Oddly it didn’t seem weird at all. Between the four of us, we provided more rock than the feeble little club could handle. They kept asking us to turn down during our set because “people can’t hear anything because of the volume.” How sad. The other bands were pretty cool to watch, but unfortunately we had to leave early to make the trek home back to Portland and didn’t get to hang out much. The drive home was interesting, topics ranged from investments to clown penis’s. Also, if you ever come see us play, be sure to ask Lyle about his ill fated trip to Spokane in his previous band. I laughed, I cried, it was better than Battle Dome. Thanks to Conor for putting on the show and the kids at the show for not rioting this time.
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