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DAY 1
Entry
1 - "Poor Dead Midgets" 11.1.99-Millvale Industrial Theater - Pittsburgh
PA
Unlike the other
groups playing to night, we are shamefully punctualto M.I.T. The fliers
and press clips lining the walls assure you this is "the place" to play
in town, looks like a lot of good rock has graced this stage. Finally
meet the infamous Manny Theiner, as well as philly ex-pat Anthony Notaro,
both helped in setting up this show and are quite cordial. We even get
a helping hand loading in. Monday nights are tough but there are in
fact some folks here to see us, thrilling. The first group, Land,
begins their set with some azusa plane/fsa style sheets of noise until
their one guitarist blows his amp, leaving the other guitarist and drummer
to do their thing (that thing being a muscular strain of mostly instrumental
space rock, Fuxa with some attitude?). The room here is more
of the DIY/all-ages renovated dump type than actual club or bar (note:
no alcohol). We get up and play a good solid set, got some heads bobbin
and hands clapping. A far cry from the philly show, but, no complaints.
The third and final band tonight are called Hovland. They are
a suprisingly good 3 piece in that melodic & intricate indie-rock vein
of bands like Death Cab For Cutie & Karate. Our gameplan
is to grab a room outside of Pittsburgh, Cleveland only being a short
hop away tomorrow
Also
in the park was a graveyard of old Pepsi vending machines, hundreds
of 'em in various states of disrepair. They were lined up like soldiers
in formation. We got down on one knee and made a silent prayer to all
the dead midgets that lived inside of the machines. Little people who
made our lives better by handing us tasty carbonated beverages in convenient
locations. Poor dead midgets. A nationwide plea should be made for vending
machine awareness. We say farewell to the M.I.T. , find a room and watch
info-mercials all night. DAY
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