Saturday, March 31, 2001

Wassup. Wassup.  Here it is the morning after our latest show to a completely packed house at Bonson Street.  WOW.  We started playing at 9:45, and while it took a few songs for the crowd to really settle in, once they did...it was insane.  Like the last show, plenty of jumping around and just "rockin' out" by everyone in attendance.  I swear to God that the floor was gonna cave in later on.  We finished our last song in or normal setlist at around 11:15, and it was the coolest thing when the crowd chanted "we want more".  So, we started pulling songs that we've never done before out of our asses...including Limp Bizkit's "Re-Arranged" & "Faith" and "Mudshovel" by Staind.  I imagine we'll probably add those to our normal set for our next show.  Then, we capped off the night with an encore performance of "Machinehead" that just rocked the house.  

We're really starting to get much tighter and feed of eachother at shows as a band as a whole.  Each show we do, our stage presence and ability to really incorperate the crowd into our music gets better and better.  It's always a blast playing, and I'd like to thank our rabid fans that have been to damn near all of our shows just going crazy...it's alot of fun.

Also, a side note.  I struck fear into the hearts of fellow band members and some people in the crowd when I snapped one of my $30 Easton Ahead aluminum drumsticks.  The damn sticks come with a 60-day warranty, even.  Luckily it's day 46, so I can take the bastards back and get some new ones.

Well, hopefully our next show is a week from now at the Battle of the Bands.  They haven't made a final decision on who gets to participate yet, but we'll find out in a couple days.  So, hopefully I'll check in with ya'll next week.  Rock on.

(note: we should have pictures of this show online within the next few days)

Friday, March 9, 2001

Hello again everyone!  It's the day after we played our show on Bonson Street.  The crowd was great.  Everyone was really getting into it, singing along and jumping around and all kinds of shit like that.  It's times like that which make it VERY fun to play.  We did about an hour and a half set from 10 pm till 11:30 pm, playing everything from Creed to Weezer to Nickelback, as well as our own kick-ass originals.  I'd also like to than Bill Nueoffer of FEU for comin' up and singin' "Nothing Else Matters". 

The other thing that made last night so cool was it was the first time alot of my friends and other people saw me with my new wild orange/red hair.  So, it was fun to see the looks on people's faces when they see the new look.  ;-)  

Thanks once again for everyone who showed up...and we'll be playing at Bonson much much more in the future! 

Wednesday, March 7, 2001

Greetings, I've decided to start keeping a journal of all of the live shows that we do.  One reason is for you people, that you get a chance to find out how a show went if ya couldn't make it.  The other reason being, is that I'll be able to keep track of all the events that this band has gone through, so when I'm an old man, I can look back and say, "hey, I rocked".

So far we've played two shows.  The first one being at the February Follies Open Mic in which we just played a couple of our origional songs.  The other time being for 91 FM WSUP's birthday party, in which we opened for Dubuque-area band, Middletown.  Both shows were in the Rendezvous on the UW-Platteville campus.  The shows were decent, but due to the setting, the crowd reactions weren't very lively...which isn't good for a band which I think strives on interacting with the crowd.