HIGHMORE'S BODY + TOM FOOLERY & THE MISTAKES + DEVILCAKE
Little Brothers
Wednesday August 7, 2002
It was an intimate little gathering of diehard dirtheads for our little Wednesday show. It was good to see the Foolery fools and the Highmore fools again. Highmore's went first for whatever reason. Their curious blend of ROCK and flat-out pornographic lyrics never fails to crack me up. I might be the only one but I think they're fucking hilarious. The singer is hysterical and his bass playing is righteous as well. His bass effects will cause me to buy some of my own, I'm afraid. Not forgetting Highmore's guitarist, who's got all the right fretboard moves. I don't know how to explain it, his shit is just there where it needs to be. All his little solos and shit, he's kinda like The Edge reborn in The Melvins. And the drummer from Highmore's is a fucking monster, I hope they realize what an asset he is to their band!
I love playing with Highmore's Body, those guys are a kick-ass band and they're cool to us too. Next on the bill was Tom Foolery & The Mistakes. The last time we saw them they were missing the bass player and half of a drum kit - both of which were present this time! Their songs crack me the fuck up too, and in fact they're very similar to Highmore's but at the same time they couldn't be more unalike. I mean, they're both trios and both of the singers wear glasses and they both kind of mine that lonely/loser (you know what I mean) vein in their lyrics and presentation. But that's where the similarites end I think. They did play the one about the PM Dawn dream. And the bass player appeared to be playing many many notes but I couldn't make out any of them due to everything else being louder in the mix. They even had some females dancing in front of the stage when they played! I wonder what that's like!
I knew I was forgetting something when Devilcake took the stage, and it was to ask Tera The Sound-person to please turn off the stage lights while we play! For if we've learned nothing from our tenure at Midgard, we should know now that rocking out with the lights on is an impossibility. And I felt it the entire time we played, it just seemed like we/I weren't hitting the marks like we did the last time we played at Little Bros.
We played the summer set but opened with Marshmallow and we threw in I Can't Believe It's Not Satan somewhere just because it's the name of the CD!
We didn't start playing until around midnight and I think my body fell asleep sometime around 10:30 or so. I was so totally out of it for the entire evening.
The summer set seemed to lack the impact of the last time we played it, but oh well. Did we practice it too much? Not enough? Whatever it was, I didn't feel like we were really rocking people. Possibly because with all that damn light I could actually see all of the audience! And that's bad. I need to step back and focus on playing the right notes and shit. I talked too much between songs too. If anyone sees me stepping up to the mic between songs in the future, please remind me that I shouldn't! I always feel like an asshole later.
The sound was good, I could hear everything pretty much. I should've had my amp louder though, I could barely hear it. But I could hear Nancy and Todd's keys and Gourley just fine. So that's cool.
The pisser is that after I finished packing up after our set, I realized I broke my glasses! I had put them on my amp before we started playing and then I totally forgot about them. I might've stepped on them or dropped something on them. Whatever, they were all mangled when I found them. And it made me want to cry for some reason. Probably the fatigue. I'm not a cry-er but I couldn't see and I thought I was going to die. So um.
I'm glad Highmore's and Tom Foolery got to stick around for our set - most of them anyway! I hope that they had as much fun as we did.
