{"id":293,"date":"2000-02-02T20:23:35","date_gmt":"2000-02-03T02:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lowpro708.com\/blog\/?p=293"},"modified":"2018-07-26T10:38:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T15:38:23","slug":"show-28-fireside-bowl-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lowpro708.com\/blog\/2000\/02\/02\/show-28-fireside-bowl-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Show #28: Fireside Bowl, Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

We played this show with Whippersnapper who is famous for their cover of the National Lampoon’s Vacation theme song, “Holiday Road” which appears on the Fearless Records compilation Punk Bites II. We were excited to be playing with a band of this caliber and we basically got the show considering that this was our 7th time and we must have impressed Brian (who books the shows). I cannot remember the name of the first band. The bass player and guitarist switched a few times and the whole band was awful. The singer had a broken arm and they played a mix of shitty pop punk, shitty ska and just shit in general. I started yelling shit and they just looked terrible. At one point I yelled in between songs during a silence, “Feeling a bit nervous?” That seemed to shake them up a bit. They played some songs with 3 horns and they played a ska song that was totally off tempo. After the song, the singer said, “Maybe we should have practiced that one a little more”. Me and a few others yelled all kinds of shit after that. We played right after them and I stole a box of picks that the bass player had left on stage.<\/p>\n

Whippersnapper was very tight and awesome. Hilger and Rob both bought the CD and they could easily be a Lagwagon or Strung Out only cooler and without the lame following. They deserve to be rich and famous.<\/p>\n

I taunted the crowd plenty and got real crazy. More than a few people asked why I was such a dick to the crowd and there is no answer. Because I can, I guess.<\/p>\n

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