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Science Faction (2006)
10 days of madness promoting our latest release in the NW and California. Partially documented by Damon Ristau.
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BELLINGHAM
We took our sweet time getting on the road to Bellingham. We
stopped in at "The Unknown" a rad-ass skate shop in Marysville and they
bought buckets of our merch! Yeah! Go there and buy shirts
and CDs and whatnot because we command it!
I'm not going to write about the rest of our day. It was one of
the worst days of my life and I need to put some space between it and
me.
Needless to say, when we pulled into Bellingham we were
thouroughly demoralized and pretty much on the verge of nervous
breakdown. We had some decent food in a pool hall and checked out
the venue (Chiribins). As you might have heard, The 3B is no
longer operating so Bellingham is struggling to find it's new home for
rock. Chiribins is doing a pretty great job of filling this
space. It's a fancy restaurant that hosts rock afterhours.
Oh yeah, you can get a 40 ounce bottle of PBR there and they give you a
little bucket with ice to keep it cold. Good thing I was
designated driver because that sounds like trouble.
The first band that played was The Llamas and they were great!
They were somewhat reminiscent of Spoon and that made everyone
smile. It was great, interesting pop music. The singer
played a right-handed Danelectro guitar upside down. I had never
seen anyone do that before. It blew my mind.
Once again, we got the cherry 2nd spot. Thanks guys! The
quarters are pretty tight in that joint, but we rocked as hard as our
confined space allowed. It was like playing a rock show in bumper
cars because we kept ramming into each other and popping each other's
strings out of alignment.
No-Fi slayed again! Bob really got into it this time, even
falling victim to Mark's hypnosis during that song about graves.
It was cool. We sold buckets of merch and made a killing at the
door. It was easily our most successful Bellingham show ever!
Stanwood totally represented! Stanwood is the town where Bacon
grew up. I would say that 20 people drove up from Stanwood for
the show. Yeah! Also in attendence were Juice and Matt from
The Narrows. There were also some Missoula fok, not the least of
which was Diamond Dave. He even let us crash at his pad in the
boondocks after the show. Hoorah to Dave and his poor roommate
for their hospitality!
So, this day ended better than others and our sanity was preserved, for now.
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