On Thursday morning, our next show was going to be until February… that all changed Thursday afternoon when we found out we would be playing Tammany Hall in Worcester and The Firehouse in Plainville, CT with our new friends, Prospect Hill, on Thursday and Friday night respectively.  Some bands for these shows fell through, and we were ready to load up the trailer and go rock some faces.

Before we recap our weekend’s adventures, we just want to say that Prospect Hill is an awesome band and even cooler people. They are all super nice, incredibly professional, great musicians/performers, and they party HARD.  We have never had this much fun playing shows with any other bands, and we can’t wait to play with them again at the Lowell Brewery on March 12th!

I am going to do this one in bullet points in no particular order as the ideas come to me because I am working on literally no sleep.  As I said, the dudes from Prospect Hill party HARD.

Thursday, January 21st, 2010:

  • Played a sick show with Prospect Hill, Novus Dae, and Bound to Stand. Picked this show up last minute.  We figured we were going to practice anyways, so why not go rock out for some people.  I am glad we did because Prospect Hill invited us to play a sick show with them in Plainville, CT the following night at The Firehouse.
  • The dudes from Bound to Stand invited Johnny onstage 3 times to take part in chugging contests. Johnny won all three.  Those guys are awesome.
  • Andy Tats (Prospect Hill Guitarist) had a night for the ages.  His amplifier, pedalboard, and guitar all the shit the bed on him, so I gave him my guitar to use… which he also destroyed by ripping the input jack clear out of the guitar when the guitar cord got wrapped around his foot and he tripped.  Incredible.  But the good news is, he actually fixed my guitar up better than it was before!  He’s a legend, and he still played a killer show despite all the setbacks.
  • Got home around 3:45am.  Rock show in CT tomorrow

Friday, January 22nd, 2010:

  • Woke up around 2pm, hit the road at 5pm to pick up The Snake, and Johnny
  • Get to The Firehouse around 8.  Sick venue that we would love to play again. Really cool spot.
  • Rock commences promptly at 10:15pm. We got to play 8 songs, and even played “Salvadorian Gunslingers” and “Sleeping Satellites”, both of which we haven’t played in quite some time.

Conversation with man outside of show, while we were loading gear into the trailer after our set:

Man: “Why would you ever drive 2 hours down here from Boston to play a show and not make money?”

Jake: “Because it’s fucking sweet.”

Drew: “Plus, we are getting our gas paid for and a free hotel room!’

Man: “So you’re telling me you drove down here 2 hours for this?”

Drew: “Yeah.  What do you love to do more than anything?”

Man: “Fuck.”

Drew: “Would you drive 2 hours to fuck?”

Man: (Squints at Drew, takes a puff of his cigarette, smiles) “I would!”

Drew: “Well, playing shows is equivalent to fucking for us.”

Jacob: “Yeah we just fucked your eardrums!”

  • Prospect Hill killed it again, and they had the best fan of all-time, named JT, in attendance.  JT could’ve been a character on Metalocalypse.  He kept taking the mic from Adam, in between their songs to yell/growl into the mic and hype up the band.  He was classic.  After the show, JT took the stage while the bands were breaking down their gear to rock out and sing along to the Guns n’ Roses and Metallica that he was pumping on the Jukebox.  I honestly must’ve said “good night” to him 5 times within 2 minutes before he actually left.
  • JT was a champion, and he has even “copywritten” the hot new phrase, “Showroom Style”, which will be sweeping the nation very soon.  If you do something very well or better than others,then according to JT, you are doing it “Showroom Style”… I’m not going to lie… I kinda like it… I will never forget you JT!
  • Andy Tats at 2am, “Would you rather stay at a hotel tonight, or a mansion?… that’s what I thought! We’re staying at  fucking mansion tonight!”
  • Approximately 2:30am, we arrive at the “mansion”… it was the most standard bungalow I have ever seen in my life.  Not even close to a mansion.   The lady who owned the house was more than hospitable though and even had a sweet party for us!  You meet some of the best people ever after shows.
  • Johnny and D-Rock from Prospect Hill dominated everyone in Beruit.
  • We learned the “D.R.I.” is a band (we were told that we were “retards” for not knowing this already and having to ask what it stood for). D-Rock told the dude wearing the hoodie that it really stood for “Direct Rectal Insertion”.
  • There was a dude at the party that looked exactly like Kevin Bacon.  Johnny told the dude that he looked like Kevin Bacon as we were leaving at around 4am… Kevin Bacon did not like hearing this.
  • 3 hotels did not work out for various reasons.  It’s 6am, the sun is coming up, none of us have slept at this point, time to drive home 2 hours to Boston!  F Sleep.
  • Get to the rehearsal space at 8am fueled up on coffee and Pop Tarts.  Keycards refuse to work.  No unloading of gear.
  • Get to bed at 9am (Saturday January 23rd, 2010).  Wake up at 2pm to unload gear.

I love playing in a band.  I wouldn’t give it up for the world.

We are playing March 12th, at the Lowell Brewery with Prospect Hill!  Come out for a wild time!