Show Journal 2000-01-08
Almost 3 years to the day after we all arrived in Portland, we have reached the high point of our career. We played at a strip club. Not just any club, but Union Jacks, the seedy looking place on Burnside in downtown Portland. I was the only one in the band who had never been to a strip club before and this was my big chance to go guilt free. Needless to say, the show was totally fun. The strippers sort of laid low for the first band, popping up on tables throughout the club every now and again. However, when Portrait of Poverty started their first song they were greeted by a naked girl doing a split about a foot in front of the singer. That guy played the entire song with the biggest grin I’ve ever seen. Our set went really well, but the strippers avoided us like the plague. I suppose it was too much rock for their cosmetically altered bodies to handle. Lyle and I had to carry the show girl torch and both got dollar bills put into our pants to prove it (which was good because we didn’t get paid even though about 80 people showed up). Since Naked Violence actually has a beat you can move to they got the full stripper ensemble during their set. Did I mention there is a pole right in the middle of the stage? That’s right … during one of Naked Violence’s songs they got an strip show from 5 feet above the drum set. Pretty wild evening.
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