Skateparks and Shows
A bit of an anecdote - as you possibly read in the last post on our blog, we played at a skateshop last night that featured its own mini-ramp in the space (a mini-ramp is kind of like a small half-pipe that never actually becomes fully vertical, it's not uncommon for a shop to have one fwiw). We played right next to the ramp, but not on it.
So anyway, this reminded me of the last show my band, Demonic Approach, played. We ruled (that's sarcasm, we didn't rule at all). we got this show at an indoor skatepark called SCRAP (i think it was an acronym for something). Anyway, every summer there would be shows there and I assume that people would come for the shows who weren't my friends but for the most part i remember there being seas of 11 year olds skating while their parents watched with some consternation at the bands playing near them.
Anyway we got a show, and this was the first show of the new incarnation of our band which had gone from "straight-up grind" to something a bit more "technical" aka ridiculous which, for the most part, involved playing in time signatures 7/8 and attempting even more ludicrously complicated things far beyond our collective skill level - all whilst having a drummer who had been playing for all of like 8 months and totally sucked (no offense, Steve, you weren't the only one who sucked). Anyway so xDAx (our clever acronym for ourselves) played, and as you probably already guessed based on the above information: we sucked.
I don't remember much besides that, but on the way back from the show - an hour from where we lived - I got pulled over and was given 4 driving tickets from a cop.
We never played another show after this.
My bandmates tried to hold a few practices without me because i was a bit of a downer at this time in my life. Apparently when i'd come to practice all i'd do was sit on my amp and stare at the floor. I don't exactly remember this but believe it to be true.
Not long after this was the short lived band "Baio" which I sang(read: screamed) in and featured Patrick Stumph, of Fallout Boy fame, on drums.
Glenview Hardcore lives forever.
Anyway, I had a brief moment of fear that our show next to the miniramp in Lexington, KY would be our last us going out like the rockstars we are, like the Gator.
it wasn't, we are about to play Louisville tonight.
sweet.
ian
So anyway, this reminded me of the last show my band, Demonic Approach, played. We ruled (that's sarcasm, we didn't rule at all). we got this show at an indoor skatepark called SCRAP (i think it was an acronym for something). Anyway, every summer there would be shows there and I assume that people would come for the shows who weren't my friends but for the most part i remember there being seas of 11 year olds skating while their parents watched with some consternation at the bands playing near them.
Anyway we got a show, and this was the first show of the new incarnation of our band which had gone from "straight-up grind" to something a bit more "technical" aka ridiculous which, for the most part, involved playing in time signatures 7/8 and attempting even more ludicrously complicated things far beyond our collective skill level - all whilst having a drummer who had been playing for all of like 8 months and totally sucked (no offense, Steve, you weren't the only one who sucked). Anyway so xDAx (our clever acronym for ourselves) played, and as you probably already guessed based on the above information: we sucked.
I don't remember much besides that, but on the way back from the show - an hour from where we lived - I got pulled over and was given 4 driving tickets from a cop.
We never played another show after this.
My bandmates tried to hold a few practices without me because i was a bit of a downer at this time in my life. Apparently when i'd come to practice all i'd do was sit on my amp and stare at the floor. I don't exactly remember this but believe it to be true.
Not long after this was the short lived band "Baio" which I sang(read: screamed) in and featured Patrick Stumph, of Fallout Boy fame, on drums.
Glenview Hardcore lives forever.
Anyway, I had a brief moment of fear that our show next to the miniramp in Lexington, KY would be our last us going out like the rockstars we are, like the Gator.
it wasn't, we are about to play Louisville tonight.
sweet.
ian
posted by The Shondes at 8:59 PM
3 Comments:
i should have never been a drummer or an asshole
*4* tickets?
yeah, ian tell them what the tickets were for...
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