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OCTOBER 1997 SHOW REVIEWS:
October marked the return of some old friends and the end of my band. So it was kinda half and half.
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OCTOBER 3rd, 1997
BLEED &
RED MAX
21 & OVER@ Safari Nite Club
Red Max from Lincoln came out first and got our motors running with their fevorous Hot Rod Rock-a-Billie. They put me in the mind of the Rev. before they got signed to Sub Pop and lost the character. Hard hitting, we don't pull any punches rock-n-roll.
Bleed is a different case in point. They are a three piece from Beer City Milwaukee, WI. Roy Orbson meets George Throgood. Gritty dark soulful. Queat, ugly and mournful danger of the kid that never fit in. Like the Fonz from Happy Days on a three day binge with Lux from the Cramps. It doesn't make complete sense but it's original and dangerous. In other words it's Rock-n-Roll baby, so grab that pint of Whiskey, the switchblade, the hand gun and have a really good bad time. Oh and did I mention that Bart plays a three piece drum set and plays standing up.
OCTOBER 9th, 1997
QUINCY
PUNX
BLANKS 77
& THE Last HAVE NOTS
Show
ALL AGES@ Safari Nite
Club
& BOBGOBLIN, THE TOMORROW
PEOPLE & UFOFU
21 &
OVER
Ok this was the last Have Nots show. We all had just had enough and you get to a point were you have to say, "Are we having fun or should we be a business". Well, I always said that when I stopped having a good time it was over and the good time was over. Plus with Gerg and Paul in SlipKnot there was always a problem with finding time to practice. We hit the stage and stumbled through our set and ended with Paul breaking his guitar (and a piece cuttin open my leg) and Greg pulling me into his drum set. Ugly and over.
The Blanks hit the stage next. This is a band that really doesn't do a hell of a lot for me live. Their records are a great deal better due to a large part of them playing really drunk. To add to the mess it was their guitarist birthday. She ended up passed out on the dressing room stairs. As if there wasn't a big enough mess the Q Punx throw confetti all over the stage. It was nice to see Sue Blank again, she's so cute and nice.
The Quincy Punx were fighting the whole day. Something about someone hitting someones tattoo but the tension of the tour was really getting to them. They annouced this would be their last show and to not blink cause you'd miss it. They played about 3 songs and I went to the bathroom and when I came back all their equipment was in piles all over the stage.
The late show was a bit of a fuzz. I remember doing shots with the Quincy Punx and Bob trying to kiss me on the mouth. It was ugly. I can't for the life of me remember anything about UFOFU or the Tomorrow people but I do remember watching some of Bobgoblins set. I had seen them before and their a power pop band with a hip stage set up. They all wear coveralls (sound familiar SlipKnot) and have all these TVs. I remember watching them and thinking that it looked like they were playing on the beach cause the confetti looked like sand.
OCTOBER 11th, 1997
THE TEENAGE
FRAMES
THE CHICKEN HAWKS
21 & OVER
@ Safari Nite Club
The Chicken Hawks after cancelling time and time again made it for once. They're from Souix City and it's hard to not make the Cramps reference. Peter laying those simple riffs and blazing guitar solos in that mid-60s Keith Richards kinda way with beautiful fetish calandar girl Bessy telling us all about sex, Minneapolis and life in Siouxicide City. All the while the backbeat just keeps on coming. It's enough to drive any teenage boy to stealing.
What can I say about the true greatnes of the Teenage Frames other then their the best thing Chicago has given to me for a long time. After seeing them close about ten times now, they still got me answering the question, "Who's got the action?" "then teenage Frames". adding a great deal to the night was the Sioux City crew that came down and gave the locals a taste of that whole Sioux City thing.
OCTOBER 20th, 1997
AT THE
DRIVE-IN
ROCKET FUEL IS THE KEY
All Ages
@ Safari Nite Club
Rocket Fuel is the Key, I got that song of theirs stuck in my head for three weeks. It's really too bad these guys are not around anymore. I miss them and that crazy cat kinda thing they do.
I had a dream about ATDI a couple of weeks ago in which they were super heros and were being hunted down by the CIA (I was reading the Watchman). Any way no one will ever be able to make a power house like this again. They are the band without a flaw. If I could be in a band it would be this one.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 24th, 1997
THE
HUMPERS
THE NECKBONES
THE SHORT FUSES
& THE FORGOTTEN BOYS
21 & Over @ Safari Nite Club
I always tried to promote shows that would be events and this one was just that an event. By far one of the best show I've ever done.
First up was the r-n-r powerhouse of the Forgotten Boys proving that too often the best bands in Iowa come from Sioux City. Though I could have done without the Guns-n-Roses cover. What's with the Glam thing in SC anyway.
The Short Fuses are from Minneapolis and prove that not all bands from there suck just 98% of them. Punk-N-Roll with a female front. They lost me at times with their almost Muffs style stuff but by far the best band I've seen the Twin Cities produce in years (maybe they're from St Paul like the Quincy Punx).
Next up was Fat Possums Neckbones. They're a hardcore redneck blues punk band almost in the vain of the Crypt bands. Just how they got on Epitaph's blues label is a mystery. An even bigger mystery is why Epitaph bought a blues label. I had missed them the last time they played the club and let me tell ya I wish I could have made it to see them the other time too.
Little did I or anyone else at the club that night know that this would be the last time the Humpers would play Des Moines. I remember the way the news hit me that they were breaking up. It was like telling a kid that Santa Claus, The Easter Bunny and the tooth Fairy were all dead. One less reason to get up in the morning and one less thing to look forward to. Viva La Humpers. They were burning like a wooden flame that night. This was the fourth time I had enjoyed the full weight of the mighty Humpers and the best show I have seen. In years to come their shows well become legends, like seeing the Heartbreakers in 78 or the Weirdos in 79. If you missed them when they were around I pity you. They pulled no punches with upper cuts of Wake up and Lose, 13 Forever, Fast Fucked and Furious, Sarcasmatron, Plastique Valentine, For Lovers Only and Make-up.
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