4/8/23

Here it is. The first Baltimore gig!

My buddy Lonesome Dave Fisher called me up asking if I was free to play bass with him on a Clash hoot night at a place called 1919. It’s this cool bar down in Fells Point that is crazy supportive of live music and it has all of the feels. 

No chance for a rehearsal with the whole band, Dave and the drummer, Skizz did a run through once though so there was some rehearsing. But no chance for all of us to get together, I was going by the charts I wrote up. 

We were third of three, the perfect spot and we tore it the hell up! On a couple of tunes Dave had a real “oh fuck yeah” look on his face as he jumped in to some lengthy solos. Really stretching the regular Clash format. It was awesome. 

It was short, but what a great first show!

9/24/22

Late is how I do it!! So….

South Filthy! We were back in a way we never were before. This has been the core line up for a long time now. Me, Walter, Jeffry, Mike and Jack, but this was the first time we actually played together as a unit. 

It was Gonerfest in Memphis. Before the pandemic we were scheduled to be a featured act at the official fest and a couple of other unofficial ones, but that was a couple of years ago. And this year we were not “official” so we had a one off at the Lamplighter, Saturday afternoon. 

We were supposed to rehearse before but scheduling is hell sometimes. We decided to just run through some tunes before we played our set. 

Day of we all met at the club and said our hellos and got to it. They doubled the size of the Lamplighter since the last time I was there. Nice big room set up for shows off of the original bar. Still a total mess but kinda perfect. 

We started in on it and on the second tune a couple of people walked in. And they kept coming. Every tune four or five new people would come in till we hit around 30. At some point we all looked at each other and laughed because we all thinking “I guess this is the show?!” We kept playing and even repeated a few of the ones we played early on. 

All in all it was a ton of fun. Would have loved to play ten more shows with them (Europe again?!!) but I’ll take what I can get.