I TOLD YOU SO

gig reports from June 23 and jUly 14 2007- Eyesores shows:

late ass gig reports! OK. I know. So here it is: June 23- my wife and I drive up to San Jose to practice with the Eyesores so we can nail it down at the show. We did finally get to jam for about 1/2 hour before the set. We then went down to where Toons was. The building for some reason wasn't open so we ate some burritos and had a couple beers at the Mexican restaurant nearby. Devious came stumbling in, and while I did buy him a beer, I very soon found reason to regret my decision. Finally the building opened up and we got our gear in. Since some dickless piece of shit had stolen my guitar cabinet the week before, I had to borrow Law Abiding Citizens' cabinet and head (a big thank you to Law Abiding Citizens!). The citizens played first and torched the place metaphorically with their punk rock. Their originals plus a cover of "In my Eyes" by Minor Threat knocked 'em dead. Plus our pal Beau was on bass.

We started with Inside the Eye, which we haven't done in years, and also revived "I Hope You die" from the old Clockwork Eyesore tape (1995)- we never played that song even back then! Maybe at the F/X show in April95, but I doubt it. Fun shit. Devious was too drunk to do the Clean and Full rap, and later almost got his ass kicked for stumbling around and landing on people. He was later frogmarched out by security.

Good thing the show went well, then because some prick stole Beau's mike. What had happened while we were getting started was that for some reason the sound on Beau's mike wasn't going through the PA. The PA guy came up and replaced it with a wireless mike. I heard later that he either put it down on the stage or took it back to his sound booth, but the end result is the mike went missing under mysterious circumstances, and the staff claimed not to have seen what happened. Not good. Within minutes of the ending of our set, the venue suddenly filled with hoochie mamas and hip hop music. Interesting transition.

Everyone went back to their hotels and partied it up. We had a band breakfast at Denny's, then my wife and I went to the Winchester Mystery House. After that, the Eyesores jammed again, this time Stab (former guitarist) showed up and did a couple songs with us. Not too bad. AFterward, everyone went back to their respective places and crashed out. I went back to LA the next day.

July 14 2007-

Metal, Fist, Marianne, and her son were going to stay over at my pad the first night, but ended up at MeisterBrown's hotel about 1000 feet from Sugars. He'd taken the Hound. the next morning, we all met up and went down to Griff Dog studios in HB and Jammed for 3 hours, going over songs for the show. We later had a bottom (bottomless soda and some semi-foodlike material at Del Taco). The show that night ended up being cool even though we were stuck with opening slot. The set ended up even better than last time, with "I Hope You Die", and an extremely long extended "Inside the Eye", as well as the new arrangement for Stick Witch (featuring guitar harmonies). up next were Secret Wars from San Dimas, playing some Fugazi-ish tunes that rocked, then Malachi Brothers doing their thing, then Krax rocking Krax stye, and finally the Comrades who kicked ass. There was a hotel after party that I don't remember too much of. Then everyone went home the next day. More to come after the next show- watch for video postings on You tube! D0g July 22, 2007

Saturday, June 30, 2007 Tshirts, stickers, new logo..show report on it's way... Current mood: ready to sleep need input from the others, then I need to duplicate it both here and on the regular page (REMEMBER WWW.THEEYESORES.COM!!!) also thanks to Meister Brown and his bro for the new flashy logo! Available on TSHIRTS and Stickers (just email for details, there's a Tshirt/Sticker/CD package in the offering!) 12:42 AM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment - Edit - Remove