RED FANG

The two of you that follow this blog might remember the last time (scroll down) we played the Milestone was one for the record books, if they have a record for smallest crowd at a rock show to still produce a gushing head wound… This time around was a whole different ball of wax. The place went off! Remember when you were a kid and you’d be watching some movie where the main character wanders into a punk rock bar to use the phone and there is a show going off in the background where people are getting tossed around like Frisbees and beer is dripping from the ceiling, and you’d say to yourself “That’s bullshit. That never happens.”? It did last night. The highlight for the boys was when Benny jumped on stage to join in on Prehistoric Dog. David was happier than a mule eating garlic. That was until Benny’s riffs started to melt David’s face off his skull! Then Valient Thorr took the stage and did what they do best, whip the crowd into a frenzy that makes a school of feeding piranha loo...

Cleveland, Ohio 3/07/09 We had a some time to kill so Bryan cleaned up a little before the show: Soon as we got out of the van I knew we were near the college, it might have had something to do with the two nineteen-year-old kids in front of the Chipotle jammin' out on a flute and a guitar. There was no tip jar or open guitar case, they were just throwin' out some jams for the burrito loving public. Man, the things you think will get you laid at nineteen, huh? Richmond, Virginia 3/08/09 Let's not pull any punches here, expectations were not high for this show. It was in a sushi bar, on a wednesday, and rumor had it that all the kids had left town for spring break. But, as has been the case lately, it turned out to be a rocker. We showed up to six different plates of sushi all about this size: Then RPG played: They completely tore the roof off the place. They were so tight that it was unbelievable. Not in the “You see the new spoiler on my Honda civic?” “Yeah Dog, that shi...