DAY 6

Lenola tour entry 6 11.6.99 Milwaukee WI
- the cactus club "enter the rocktagon!"

scott - when you cross the border into Wisconsin they hand you a wedge of cheese. other attractions include the Bong Recreation Area and the Mars Cheese Castle. With Milwaukee comes an unusually large number of churches and buildings with big clocks on them.

sean - we arrive in town early, stop by our host Andrew's place, but he is out. we hit Atomic Records, then the local park for late afternoon frisbee and leisure. On the way back to Andrew's, the local college radio station is talking up our show for that evening. Andrew and his wife are extremely gracious, feeding us a delicious home-cooked vegan feast. talk quickly turns to music, it turns out Andrew, like us, was forever changed in his formative years by punk rock and skateboarding. we bond about our mutual obsession with washington dc hardcore, and andrew picks jay's brain for anecdotes of late 80's east-coast hardcore nostalgia. we promise him we'll play our Rites Of Spring cover tonight. We load into the cactus Club, and i begin DJ'ing on what is the best jukebox on tour so far. Any jukebox with Black Flag next to Hank Williams is fine with me. Everything is going along wonderfully until we are suddenly informed we are to go on first (again). There was a miscommunication between the other folks in Andy's band Lucia. we thought we were playing second, so did they, etc. in the end it is us that go on first, but andrew makes up for the mishap by introducing us to Steel Reserve brew. 8.1%, yow! We get up and do a very aggresive set, loose as gooses by this point. Lucia play a much calmer set of spacey-pop, and then headliners Lullaby For The Working Class bring on their strange americana-folk. Lots of members on the stage with instruments including vibraphone, pedal steel, mandolin, violin, acoustic guitars and other stuff. interesting and well done, just a bit too mellow for that late night hour. we stay at Andrews, i break in my newly purchased sleeping bag.
todays van playlist
Grandaddy - under the western freeway
wilco - am
son volt - wide swing tremelo

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