After a tedious day of driving 60 miles an hour in the slow lane (due to both my engine and brake lights being on continually and violent shakes above 62mph), I arrived at Pats in the Flats in Cleveland, my favorite Cleveland punk/dive bar, after 9 hours of driving, only to immediately lock my keys in my car. Good times, good times. Thankfully, shows at Pats usually start around 10:30pm, so I had time to call AAA, which I just joined last Wednesday in case of a breakdown in transit, and they came in about 15 minutes. Amazing?
Flat Can Co. tore it up with the longest set I’ve ever seen them do: 20 minutes. All out blast of rock insanity. I played second and Self Destruct Button shredded what was left of Mother Music in another maybe 25 minute-long set which sounded like an hour+ set crammed in to one, insanely dense 25 minutes of multi-metric punk/metal. I really like their now-incorporated singing/shouting (everybody but the drummer blasted out the anthems).
Now I’m sitting here in Oberlin, getting set for a show at The Feve, the bar I graduated from in ‘06, with Oberliner Rhafiq Bhatia’s trio with special guest my good buddy Kassa Overall sitting in drums. I’m stoked. I was also delighted to find a super nice piece in the Oberlin Review about the show tonight. Shout out to Will Roane! I’ll post the full article in a blog entry after this one.
And, in typical Oberlin style, the students are celebrating the beginning of Earth Week with a mini-festival in the square feature awareness-raising booths and jam bands.