...18 years ago...

Woke up at 3 in the afternoon - well rested. We lazed around. Dave R. and Rod called - in town and will be over soon. Mike Morrison called - we are all over the CMJ charts. Very good showing.

See - we're starting to really chart just in time for the end of the first tour!

We play records until Rod and Dave R. show up. They went to a house - there were fights between guys with criminal records, drunk sleazy girls, they witnessed a fight over $4 dollars. They finally fell asleep at 5:30AM only to wake up to a pointed gun in their faces. They were ordered out so they drove to the French Quarter where they got stuck for 1.5 hours in a Shriners parade. They had a wild time.

I spoke to Dave R. recently and he tells me that the house they went to was a Pit Bull or Doberman breeding house. There were several dogs chained to cinderblocks in what would have been the dining room had their been any furniture in the house. They tried to stay out of the way and drink the beer they brought with them. They went next door to sleep on the hard wood floor and worried the boyfriend next door would come over to kill them. After being forced out, they got stuck on a side street from the parade. Watching the Shriners, clowns etc. was just too strange in the state they were in.

We hang out. To Jacy's bar gig (cool place - Circle Jerks, Tex and the Horseheads, Screamin' Sirens etc. small bar - unbelievable) 7:30. Decent sound system. Sound check then go get pizza on LSU campus. Back at bar at 9:30. Other "band" decides to open. They set up - show starts. Ham sings heavy metal parody song. Lots of different people play. Fun songs - a good one - "Don't fuck with my head". 'Peter Gunn' with words like "Peter Ivers, they took you off TV" etc. Play for about a half hour. We set up and play a good set. 40 people. Pay sound guy $75 - unfortunately Ham listened to Joe and only charged $2 dollars at the door. We made $5 bucks - what a waste. At least some LSU DJ's where there and really liked us -they had already been playing our disk. We packed up - home to Ham's - to bed about 2:30-3AM. (I started to read an old "Hardy Boys" book - half way through.

I loved watching Night Flight and New Wave Theatre the early 80's. I had a collection of Hardy Boys books as a kid. Seeing them at Ham's brought back memories.