Here's another post in the series "My Bands". At college I found anyone who was really into music. Punk, metal, hardcore, ska. Many of us were DJs and ran the college radio station. And we also would make ad-hoc cover bands. In '98 and '99 we put on a punk rock xmas party in our campus house/dorm thing. This pic below is the first instance.
On the left, my boy Sol on bass rocking the Black Sabbath shirt. In the middle is Matt on guitar who would later go on to play in Missionshifter with me. And cut off on the right is Chris, also a future Missionshifter member. I can't remember what song this might have been, but it was hella fun.
Another one from the archives. Here is a pic of my very first band, "Horse of a Different Colour" (with the English spelling to be fancy)
This band started with me on drums and my high school friend Will Kerr (sp?) on bass. I can't remember the girl on vocals but she was friends with Will. This portrait shows us in a Emo stance.
I think we only played cover songs and we never played out. Will was probably 2 years ahead of me so my the time we got rolling he graduated. This was probably around 1994 or 1995.
Some of the songs we rocked:
Here Comes Your Man by The Pixies
These Boots by Op Ivy (who was covering Nancy Sinatra)
Negative Creep, Floyd the Barber, Son of Gun (Vaselines) by Nirvana
To this day, my neighbor is still jealous that I got to play drums and be in a band!
From an older, wiser musician - if you can avoid it, don't ever sell equipment. I still wish I had that awesome dark red/purple Tama kit. That green box fan in the left corner, though, is still around at my dad's house.
I went down to New Jersey to see this lineup with my friend Sol. But before I cover the show, let's talk about all the great people you meet.
Sol was hanging with someone he met on the train over, a guy around our age named Sam. He's a huge music fan and had also seen ZZ Top and Cannibal Corpse in the last month. Dude loves music!
The winner of best T-Shirt went to this beaut:
On the way in I complimented a young kid on his Propagandhi shirt. It was bootleg he said. But he had color matched Nickelodeon "Doug" socks. So there.
Back to the music: the lineup for the night: Mourning <something>, FEAR, The Gaslight Anthem and Misfits.
Lee Ving from FEAR still has it, and he's only like 73 years old. 1234! 1234! They also had their original drummer Spit Stix, who was tasty as ever. Seriously, go listen to The Record.
Gaslight Anthem is from NJ (like the Misfits) and must have been super excited to be sandwiched between two massive legends.
Now for the Misfits. Glenn! Jerry! Dave Lombardo! Some other guys on guitar. What else needs to be said?
Glenn's vocals were on point and Dave would throw in some Slayer licks every once in a while. It was a killer set. It'd post more pictures but we were in the nose bleed section and all the photos are blurry.
Here's a video of the crowd singing along to "Eagles"
The only downside to seeing Misfits is that you might wake up with the lyrics from "Bullet" running through you head.
Here's the setlist, stolen from setlist.fm
Death Comes Ripping I Turned Into a Martian Where Eagles Dare Hybrid Moments Vampira London Dungeon Some Kinda Hate Mommy, Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight? All Hell Breaks Loose Hollywood Babylon Who Killed Marilyn Earth A.D. Green Hell Come Back Violent World Skulls Halloween Teenagers From Mars Children in Heat Bullet Night of the Living Dead Astro Zombies Last Caress
