Last Night, We Rode.

And today I have no voice and my ability to move is seriously hindered. We may have rocked too hard. Jesus, it was hilarious! Our friend Patrick filmed it too, so I'm going to post some footage asap. It was possibly the most fun I've ever had in my life. We made a real performance of it, with an elaborate entry procession complete with candles and demonic halloween organ music blasting. I'm gonna steal Aaron's (the man on the thunderbuckets) description:

"The house music stops and there is a moment of silence before some creepy halloween noises begin blaring through the bar. From the back, Al, Zach, and Myself come walking into the venue with black hooded robes and holding skull candles. The crowd was cheering like crazy and getting really into it. We place our candles ceremoniously on the "alter" at the front of the stage, grabbed our instruments and jumped right into "Gather Your Swords". The crowd went fucking nuts.

There was a pretty big turn out at the Underground Lounge last night. Aside from our group of friends taking over one side of the bar, there were TONS of curious passerbys and even a bachelor party who thought we were probably the best band of all time.

We sort of cemented that fact when we played our fourth song, "Gasmask". We had two huge skeleton heads on either side of the stage that hooked up to fog machines that began to fill the stage with the smoke emerging from the skeletons' eye sockets. The stage lights were turned off, a green strobe light begin flashing, and we each put on our gasmasks and began to rock the fuck out in the green-lighted smoke.

It was a bit embarrasing at the end of the show when the whole audience demanded "ONE MORE SONG" and we didn't know any. We blew our whole wad, because it was our first show. Anyway, the audience voted that we play our cover of Motorhead's "Shoot You in the Back" again. AGAIN. We played the same song twice and they fucking love it.

It was good to recieve such honest praise after a first show. I've played a lot of gigs where you get off stage and people say "hey man, good stuff. I really liked it" and you believe them, but you know that they are saying it mostly out of formality. Last night, though, we got off stage and everyone was just in awe, aparantly. The bartender exclaimed "New favorite band" and then proceeded to say how badly he wants to get us in to record. Others just simpley said "fucking amazing". It felt good to know we are going in the right direction. Now we just need to keep the momentum going. And i definately wouldn't mind continueing to get paid to do this"

More on this soon - and we've got another gig lined up already. I'm going to get a little band site going too, so I'll keep you informed.