Show Journal 2004-09-21
Day 5 – Woke up quick at about noon, felt that I had to be in Compton soon. Today Chris cooked us the best breakfast I’ve had in ages. Mike, who is traveling with Thirty3 is also Zebrahead’s tour manager. Being that he’s friends with those guys he also lives with Greg who is the guitar player for ZH. The reason for pointing that out is because their house is littered with ZH memorabilia. There were tour posters from Japan, limited albums and all kinds of other cool stuff. It made me realize how many bands and how few actually make it. After food we watched some reruns of Da Ali G Show and realized just how god damn funny that show really is. Tre Tre and Jim hung out while Dave dragged Justin and myself to see a tank. Really. After that we headed over to the LBC to see our friend Robert and his merchandising business. His warehouse of shirts and stickers is like a historical archive of punk and rock history. Very cool stuff. After that was had pizza and admired what is perhaps the greatest collection of DVD’s and CD’s I’ve ever seen. All hail Robert. Tonight Thirty3 got to play a show at the Chain Reaction in Anaheim. We couldn’t get on the bill and played at the Cat Club on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood. You’d think a club on the strip would have a crowd right? Wrong. The first band has a few people in attendance. They were a hard rock band from Israel so a few people seemed curious to watch. The second band was a local LA band. In the most pure Hollywood moment I’ve ever seen I went up and introduced myself to their drummer. I said “Hey, I’m Eric from 800 Octane, the bartender says you guys do well and I’m looking forward to seeing your set.” No shit the guy shakes my hand, pats me on the arm with his other hand and walks past me. What a cock. They did play the best cover I’ve ever seen of AC/DC’s song ‘TNT’ and deserve props. Unfortunately the rest of their set was a lackluster rendition of something along the lines of Hoobastank. We played last and it was dismal. Here are the people in attendance: Robert (who’s house we were staying at), Brent (a friend of the band), one of Brent’s friends, the bartender/sound guy and two of the people from the second band. All the crowd left, the band from Israel left and the friends of band number two left as well. I tried to convince Jim to play our song Hollywood but the humor was lost on deaf ears. It was pretty bad but a bad show is better than no show on tour. Thanks to Robert and Megan for their hospitality.
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