2001

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Wed Jan 3, 2001 with Project/Object - Lilli's Boston (Somerville) MA
Thu Jan 4, 2001 with Project/Object - Valentine's Albany NY
Fri Jan 5, 2001 with Project/Object - Milestones Rochester NY
Sat Jan 6, 2001 with Project/Object - The Docksider Erie PA
Sun Jan 7, 2001 with Project/Object - The Saint Asbury Park NJ

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1.12.01 with JFK'S LSD UFO - Jan. 12th, 2001 from 8:30 to 11pm at Wetlands-Preserve, NYC

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We were downstairs while DJ Logic had a Superjam with friends from various jam bands as they like to call them (ulu and moe, etc.).  Upstairs was the groovalicious and downstairs was theLSD.  We spaced out and played to eachother.  People used the downstairs to get away from the crowd and smoke pot----right in front of us.  This was a great experience and a great opportunity to be a special guest with JFK'S LSD UFO.  They push the boundaries of what performing is.  After my segment with the band, I rushed into a cabby and traveled across town to get to Sidewalk Cafe to play lead guitar with Esme Montgomery and band. 

1.12.01 Esme Montgomery - Jan. 12th, 2001 from 11:30-12:30 at Sidewalk Cafe in NYC. 

Got there and Dave Dreiwitz was setting me up a marshall that was borrowed for me to play on.  John Braun was setting up his drums.  I got there on time!!!  We played the gig and the audience was responding very very well.  We did a cover of "Sex Type Thing" by Stone Temple Pilots that went over well for some reason.  The audience enjoyed the show A LOT and these esme gigs are getting better and better response and love.  Someone shouted "More Esme!" before the "The Bitter Poet" took the stage.  Esme did a cover tune by her self called "Romeo & Juliet" (by dire straits) as an encore.  We packed up our stuff and Dave went to a "gay party" in Chelsea, Esme left for a gig in San Francisco, and John Braun slept over me and explaura's house.  The "Bitter Poet" was a great show and if you get the chance to see them, do so.  The band and the poet were funny, talented, and captivating. 

FEBRUARY 2001

2.10.01 Esme Montgomery - Feb. 10th, 2001 at the C-Note, NYC.

I went "pick-less" for this one. This was a really cool gig because I thought we rocked extra hard and probably were more tighter as a band then any other show. In the afternoon we had a hardworking rehearsal, bringing a new song "Roll Me Over" into the set bag and premiering it that night. Dave Dreiwitz was on bass, Tom Zovich (who has played bass with this band as well) was on drums, and Esme Montgomery was on vocals, electric and acoustic guitar. We also premiered a jazzy cover - a Nat King Cole song called "L.O.V.E." in which I attempted to play a loungy guitar solo. Dave reassured me that it is "the thing" to be always on the verge of hitting a bad note when playing jazz solos. (Dave is back on tour with one of my favorite bands, Ween in March for a 10-day run, by the way.) Oh yeah, I signed magicalpig's tit at this show with a black sharpie. It was good to see all the fun peeps that came out to this show. Afterwards I went to see P.I.C., a band that plays one of my favorite songs called "Hambo". This band you should check out, they use Rick Bartow on bass from Project/Object and Lovetester. 

Project/Object Tour - Feb 22 - March 8th, 2001.

February 21, 2001 with Project/Object - State Theater - Falls Church, VA

February 22-23, 2001 with Project/Object - Visulite Theater - Charlotte, NC

Mother Nature stopped us dead in our tracks on the second day of the tour. It was in Virginia driving to North Carolina to play 2 nights at the Visualite Theatre in Charlotte, NC. The people in the more southern range then the NYC Tr-State aren't used to driving on I-95 during a blizzard. Basically there was a 100-car pile-up or a few of those. We were stuck right behind it. Other idiots drove on the shoulders to get 15 cars ahead and fell off the side of the highway to cause more trouble. We spent about 5 hours traveling 60 miles. Basically the gig that night was cancelled. We showed up to the club at 1am, ate dinner, watched the sopranos and stormed down the east coast playing everynight except the one day off on March 6th. Oh yeah our cargo/equipment rented van broke down (tranny) on the way to Asheville, NC from Savanna, GA. After doing about 8 tours with this band, I can tell you that mishaps like this don't happen ever, but this time, they did. Anyway, look out for a west coast tour in mid April. Thanks to everyone who came out and we're nice to me and to those who spent their money on the Great Atomic Power CD. Check out the tour diary I made for each day/gig on this tour. 

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Wed Feb 21, 2001 Falls Church, Virginia State Theatre 

Barely made the late train at Penn Station, NY to Central Jersey. Got picked up and brought to A&P.; Bought pretty good grub, Vitamin C, zinc lozenges, and echinacia at the A&P.; Left Rancho Relaxo around 11am-12pm. We turned on the walkie talkies. Andre in the passenger side, Spack in the driver's seat, me, jordan, rick, and Ike with seats for ourselves. Got to the gig decent timing. Set up, had some food there from their kitchen. Nice place, big sound, Theatre-Like. Drank some green tea. Met the Charles Wright group during our soundcheck. They were zappa fans and they were gonna open for us. 2 black dudes and a white guy. They opened for us and they kicked SO much fucking ass. They are a fusion group, they all rip it up. http://www.killerfusion.com We had great guests on horns. These two guys from the U.S. Navy band who learned a few zappa songs like Echidnas arf and participated in our Improv Sections and ripped mad solos. Maybe i'll post the setlists for these shows, Rick is our setlist designer and manager. Watched tv at the hotel and had a great party. 

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Thurs Feb 22, 2001...Charlotte, NC Visualite Theatre. 

Woke up in the hotel with my roomate, Rick Bartow. Looked out the window and the snow was packin up. I saw Road Manager Bob from my window trying to get the van packed to get us on the road. Went down to the van and got in. Took off fairly soon and soon hit Traffic on I-95 and the snow was still falling. 1 hour later we were dead stopped in the road. People got out of their cars and took whizzes and walked around. The smokers got out of the van to have a smoke. Jordan started with the snowballs. And we threw snowballs at eachother for a while on I-95. It was time to get back into the van. Yes we were moving another 30 feet. Then we stop again. This went on for 5 hours. I'd say we drove about 60 miles in five hours. The whole time Andre who has much hate for his horrible verizon cell phone with horrible verizon service was contacting the club and owner trying to see what the weather was like in Charlotte (we were still in Virginia---"no snow in charlotte!"). Andre told him that the chances that we would get there on time were slim with all this traffic. This was supposed to be our 1st of 2 nights at the Visualite. We were very psyched to play this gig because it would be the first time we could play 2 shows in this order; 1)set up our stuff, 2) play, 3) leave the stuff on the stage, 4) leave the venue, 5) sleep 6) drive hardly any distance to the next show 7) not set our shit up! 8) rehearse, 9)then play another entirely different show. But the weather and the people who don't know how to drive carefully in snow fucked us all up. We were stuck behind a 100-car pile-up that was all over the news and we drove right through it. By the time we got out of the mess and to the club it was 1am. We unloaded our gear and were welcomed with applause from the barfolks who had come out to see us. The owner told us that we'd be playin tommorow not 2 shows but 1 show with three sets. They were all watching a big screen projection of 200 Motels when we got there. They had food for us waiting. We all ate. And a guy put a DVD of Sopranos episodes...so we watched that on a huge screen. Had a beer or two and then took off to the hotel. 11 Hours were spent driving that day....or not driving....sitting, laying, waiting. Oh yeah, when we got to the hotel, it became apparent that they gave our reservations away to walk-ins and we all had to get rooms with only one bed and we had to wait around for an hour while they fucked around with us some more. A member of the band did us a huge honor by leaving an upperdecker in the hotel lobby bathroom the following day.

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Friday Feb 23, 2001...Charlotte, NC Visualite Theatre. Project/Object

Needless to say, we were quite rested for this show. We got there and set up and rehearsed anyway since we got there so early. Had a great beer in a huge bottle during the daytime. The band room is pretty cozy in this venue. It's right behind the stage....Imagine you were chillin' --had your living room with your coffee table and smooth mood lighting and you invited your band over 'cause people were gonna show up to your back porch expecting a show. Outside was nice weather. I chilled out there with a beer and guitar and smoked. We played 3 sets this night. 2nd set was the "One Size Fits All" album. Had a great time playin this show. Back at the same hotel, the member of the band confirmed that it stank in the hotel lobby bathroom.

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Saturday Feb 24th, 2002...Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse. Project/Object

Denny Walley on slide guitar and vocals. Local legend, Glenn Phillips, on guest sick-shredding guitar playing. That's right, 5 guitarists that night--whatcha gonna do? Seahag, Ike, Andre, Glenn, and Denny---The Variety is the right place to do that too. The stage is huge and the sound is unbelievable. We also had a juggler named Dan Berg on the stage a few times that night who did an awesome juggle show to Peaches En Regalia. Before the gig and after soundcheck, Denny and his wife Janet the Planet (yes, from the zappa movie, Baby Snakes) took us all out to indian food which was super nice and awesome of them. I sat next to Denny and had a delicious dinner. Janet made us some pumpkin bread and the whole band housed it and I didn't get any somehow. So later a member of the band found Ike's stash-away pumkin bread and stole one of the middle slices and gave it to me (and of course had some for himself) and put the bread back together. We rocked that house that night. Denny sang an unbelievable City of Tiny Lights and played such awesome slide while Glenn played incredible stuff on his guitar. Oh yeah. The hotel we stayed at in Atlanta was a scary place with ghosts of mental patients. When me and rick tried to get into our room a man who was in bed said, "Someone's in here" and we closed the door. What happened was they split me and rick up and in the scary place I had a smaller single bed room for 1. So did rick. But since Rick picked my room for me, he gave me the more scarier room with the crooked door frame. I woke up fine though. I ain't afraid a no ghost. 

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Sunday Feb 25th, 2001...Athens, GA Athens Music Factory. Project/Object

Invited Glenn to play with us here as well since it's only an hour away from Atlanta. Got there very early, and went to some neighborhood stores like the place right next door. Out of the t-shirt money was a purchase made by the whole band. The Captain Kirk stand-up cardboard cutout for a stage prop to hang girls lingerie on. It was either the Bill Clinton with a sax (right head, wrong body), Cpt. Kirk, or Elvis (making the most stupidest goofiest stance i've ever seen). We had to get the kirk though....cause we already made fun of him in our shows in the past. Glenn showed up and played awesomely again on more tunes. Had a great time. Dan Berg came and juggled some more at this show. My friend, Neil Golden also known as Octa, showed up (he's from athens and in the group called The Glands). We hung out and I gave him my beers. 

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Monday Feb 26th, 2001...Charleston, SC The Music Farm Project/Object

I don't remember much about this gig except that we played Carolina Hardcore X-tacy and the crowd went nuts when the lyrics say..."Take a Charleston...." Anyway. I met this kid from Winston Cigarette Company who was taking pictures all night. I tried to get him to hook me up with fresh smokes but all he told me to do was get on the mailing list....maybe he'll come through and get them delivered to my house. I shouldn't be smoking anyway...but if they're free it's better off. This place reminded me of another place....and of another place....and of another place....which is why i can't remember this gig well. 

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Wed. 27th St. Petersburg, FL at the State Theatre Project/Object

Hey this place was pretty dirty and the people hardly "shew" up. But lo and behold we had a guest with us that night. The guest was Jerry Outlaw from the florida-based-band-that-performs-the-music-of-frank-zappa-with-Napoleon-Murphy-Brock-and-an-orchestra called BOGUS POMP. We'd heard a lot about this band and Jerry urged us to play this gig and brought his guitar and amp to play. Turned out that Jerry was a really good guitar player who played an 80's Kramer like me (currently my only guitar costing $150) He knew a bunch of songs so he played with us a lot and he got to take a lot of solos. There was one solo where I solo'd at the same time as him. I don't know why people don't do more of that. I pretty much did it because I knew someone was taping the show. Anyway, besides the lack of crowdige we had at the State Theatre this was a fun show to play and the promoter was a fine lad. One thing about this crowd though, we played 2 sets and everyone was back in their seats. When we came back for an encore, they were up to the stage dancing. It was like, way too late for getting really into the show. It was the last song. I even said to them "What, ya come up to the front now? It's the last song, why'd you wait for the last song" or something. Somewhere a few blocks from this this theatre was a great coffee shop where all the wierdo's hung out. We got food there that was REALLY fuckin good and good coffee. The best veggie burger ever. We hung there for like an hour and i want to do more of this laid back dining in the future. 

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Thursday Feb 28th, 2001 Ft. Lauderdale, FL at State Theater Project/Object

This was at first a drag because we showed up and the club wasn't open. All there was was Quiet Riot flyers cause they were gonna play there soon. (I really wanna know the story about Ozzy punching Rudy Sarzo in the face.) Me, Rick, and Wes went to the bar and ordered coffee's and the bartender was from Jersey. A few coffee's later, I was having a great time at the bar and the club was open. This was the night where Rick's parent's were gonna come see us. Also this was the night where our booking agent's parents were gonna see us. Basically both sets of parents were going to see whether their son was wasting his time or not. There was a huge 7 foot bong on the stage made out of cardboard and Captain Kirk took mad bong-hits during a reggae jam. The show was pretty silly and a wicked pissa, dude. The crowd at this show made up for the lacking crowd of our other two Florida shows cause they were abundant and loud. The weather was nice and Spackle and our merchandise was set up outside the club by the entrance. I talked to this one dude who told me he was recording the newest Aerosmith record and that he got to play keyboard on it. He was from Boston but i forgot his name. You people with the new Aerosmith cd can find out. Florida gigs were over now. It was time to go back north. We was pretty happy about it I think.

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MARCH 2001

March 1, 2001 with Project/Object - Culture Room - Ft Lauderdale, FL

March 2, 2001 with Project/Object - JJ Cagney's - Savannah, GA

March 3, 2001 with Project/Object - Stella Blue - Asheville, NC

March 4, 2001 with Project/Object - Peasants - Greenville, NC

March 5, 2001 with Project/Object - Alley Katz - Richmond, VA

March 7, 2001 with Project/Object - Met Cafe - Providence, RI

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3.18.01 Esme Montgomery - Olive's Cafe - Wilkes-Barre, PA.

Broke in a new drummer--Tom Curiano who totally kicked ass. Woke up at 11:30am and went to Tin Pan Alley to rehearse from 12-3pm. After rehearsal, me, Tom Zovich (bass), and Esme (ld. vox/guitar) rode in Tom's car to a diner where I had a Fish Sandwich deluxe (wit da fries). Esme had a Chicken Salad Club (maybe) with some bacon and fries. Tom had a Lobster soup which was supposed to be Turkey and then he had a Feta Salad with Anchovies. The Diner: The Hibernia Diner off of I-80...the diner where the guy kept getting Tom's order wrong...."Can I have a coke?" - "Ok, here's your sprite." Anyway we drive through the bitter cold of I-80 to Wilkes-Barre and arrived at Olive's around 7pm. There we saw members from my good friend Les' new band called Stoney Creek. The bartender Brian was cool and gave us beers galore for no charge. Charles (promoter/booking for Olive's) was a nice dude and I hadn't seen him in a few years. Olives might soon be a cool new spot to play small shows in the NE PA area. I made the setlist for this show. There was 2 sets each band. We split the show up this way; Esme plays first set, Stoney Creek plays first set, Esme plays second set, Stoney Creek plays second set. This was cool because as John from Stony Creek put it on the mic on SCB Set II - "Wow, ya don't realize but while you're on your set break you're watching another band and getting really really drunk". I suppose this was the feel of the night for all involved. This was our longest set yet and some of our songs were performed faster then any other time. Especially Get Out of My Head which was fucking fast. We did a lot of covers. Mother Mother (by Tracy Bonham), What Is and What Should Never Be (by Led Zeppelin), Stay Forever (by WEEN), To Be With You (Mr. Big), Sex Type Thing (by STP), and Lets Hear it for the boy (from the footloose soundtrack by ???). No one recorded this show. I have a feeling that the Amityville gig on March 31st might be long like this one was. After the show, Tom drove me and him back from Wilkes-Barre to NYC. We stopped at Dunkin' Donuts and got some coffees and Tom kept callin' the guy 'Boss' at the franchise. When traveling on I-80 in the western part of New Jersey, make sure you all have enough gasoline for your car especially at night. We barely made it to an "open" gas station. 

3.20.01 Old Rugged Sauce - Lakeside Lounge, East Village, NYC.

I only played with this guy Paulie once before this show. It all happened on Dec. 23rd, 2000 when Dave Dreiwitz was gonna play his first show with Esme Montgomery and before our gig at 9pm he said he had to meet his friend at 9C (bar in nyc) to play a gig. So Dave took me and Esme in his car to the gig. We got some chinese food to eat at the bar and soon enough Paulie shows up and starts playin' and singing lounge tunes at the bar and dave is playing along on bass. Then we played the Esme gig across the street at another bar (C-Note). After show, me and Laura were invited to a joint in Williamsburg (where we reside). At this joint, Paulie told me I should get up there and play lounge shtuff with him and dave. I only knew about 1 song out of about 2 hours of music but they said i did good. So Paulie calls me up a few months later for this gig. And i say, "Is there a rehearsal?". He says "No we'll do it just like last time". So this time there was a drummer and i recognized more of the songs. A debut of "Shaft" was done and talk about doing "Carwash". It was quite fun and the beers were free for the band like they should always be fuckin' dammit. The blue panties that have been hanging on my headstock for the last 6 months were used in a surprisingly skilled game of panty-tag (throwing the panties and landing them on the other guy's instrument). After the gig, Paulie told me I should come thursday at the Right Bank Cafe in Williamsburg. Apparently they play there every thursday night. From like 10-2am. 

3.22.01 Old Rugged Sauce - Right Bank Cafe, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Drums and two guitars. "Rehearsal gig" they call it. Every thursday. Played 2 sets and learned some more songs on the spot that I never heard before. "Shaft" was rehearsed. Virginia (bartender) reminded me of ye good ol' Holly Piper and served us beer right to the stage. I actually witnessed Paulie "Supersize" his Scotch drink with our bartender. Patrick (the guy who runs the place) offered to take care of any of my hunger needs (wanna samwich? wanna salad?). Paulie and I discussed a very innovative project idea he came up with that we're gonna take on at the studio he works at in Williamsburg but that's enough about that--i'll have more to say when that starts happening. This gig was much fun and something useful to do on a thursday night while hanging out at a laid back bar. Talk of next Thursday at the same place is on...but apparently a DJ might be spinnin'....but if he's upstairs, we'll play downstairs hopefully.

3.29.01 Old Rugged Sauce - Right Bank Cafe, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Same line up as last week--Glenn on drums with just a snare and a ride cymbal, me on "eddie van halen" guitarwith the panties, and paulie on d'angelo pick-up guitar. Welp this was my 4th rehearsal with this band and man i'm finally getting some of this shit down, with the exception of the new songs paulie whips out on me every show. We did "Shaft" much better then the week before. We also did "Hot for Teacher" instrumental and "pusher man" and some really really cool songs which i don't know the name to any of them. DJ Vick the Bruiser (WBAI) and the ever-famous Laura came to this gig and had drinks. I, for one, should not drink like i did at this gig. Basically I was fine until after the gig when I had my second "supersized" scotch and soda (after about 3 pints of Harp - beer before liquor never sicker). In the middle of the drink and in the middle of conversation, I had to head to the bathroom. When i got there i took a seat on the porcelain throne and basically "rested" there and dozed in and out of sleep (I had been very tired since earlier in the day) until some guy came in asked me if i was alright and i said "yeah, thanks" and then I puked (two shots) and felt much much better. Called a car from the car service by my house and got picked up and brought to me home at 4am. There is a streak of shows happening including/starting-with this one. 5 shows in 4 days. As DennisD would say... "yeow". 

3.30.01 Esme Montgomery - The C-Note, East Village, New York

What a cool gig. First of all, lemme say that the Old Devil Moon is one of my favorite restaurants. Went there to meet Laura for dinner before this show. Saw my friends Josh and Dennis ("Fuckwheat" from mp3 page who owns the restaurant). Me and Laura had one of the best dinners ever there and splurged 25 dollars. We went over to the C-Note, and saw Danneh! sittin at the bar. Anyway. Sooner or later we were up at the stage playing and there was all sorts of cronies in the audience. Laura, Danneh, Ryan Sholin', Vick the Bruiser, Inspector Jim B. and Jessica, Davey & Charlyn (maybe even a drunk charlyn which is not normal). We played this show a super enthused crowd. And the rock prevailed. After the show Dan The Hotch (the most leadest singer from wrong) shows up and taps me on the shoulder surprising me because he lives in SanFran now. After the show, the people who were left went to Ryan's house and jammed on harmonicas and acoustic guitars until about 3am. Led Zep song was covered for the 2nd time at this gig--no slide on the slide solo.

3.31.01 Esme Montgomery - The New Wrong Way Inn, Amityville, LI, NY

Tom Zovich (plays an awesome silly bass) once again drove me and Esme to an out-of-town gig. I gotta say this was the greatest we've ever sounded as a hard-rock band even if we're not always a hard rock band. But for the songs esme writes that are hard-rock, this was the real deal. The real Rock. Tom Curiano on drums (3rd gig) keeps kicking more and more ass and gets me playing more live than live on the rock. Despite the lack of a packed house in this town, this was probably the best show we've ever played (is it only because we played the night before?). We could hear the vocals and the crowd response was golden. Tom C. drove me back to brooklyn and dropped me right to the front door of my house. I came home around 1am and slept by 2am. Led Zep song was covered for the 3rd time- no slide on the slide solo.

APRIL 2001

4.1.01 Old Rugged Sauce - The Pourhouse, Williamsburg, Bklyn 7:30pm

First of all, sorry but the POOL HOUSE gig was nixed. [I heard that Davey and Charlyn tried to go and couldn't find the place. Sorry Davey and Charlyn but it was April Fools Day and i guess i played my trick even though I didn't plan it.] I've always frequented this bar because it was a new joint that opened up close to my friends Dan and Liz's house about a year ago. This was my first time playing here so it was cool. Glenn was late due to Daylight Saving's time fuck-up-non-knowing-non-setting-forward-the-clock. At this gig, Glenn was officially known as "Peg Leg" because of his sprained high-hat leg (he apparently fell down a manhole). Glenn of course didn't show with a high-hat. Only with a snare and ride cymbal again. A woman was cheering him giving him approval especially during "Shaft". The gig was kind of tight (not a lot of room to play and I should've had a drink next to me for in between songs) After about 15 songs we split to the next joint. A stint at a new studio opening up in the gas tank riverbank of williamsburg.

4.1.01 Old Rugged Sauce - Comtex Studios, Williamsburg, Bklyn 10pm 

Woah, and god damn! This place is nice, dude. Outside the windows of this studio you can see gas tanks galore (huge). Inside this studio you can see a really great studio. Possibly the Paisley Park of Williamsburg. Anyway, it's a recording studio with great equipment-state of the art and old crap that still works well and weighs a lot of pounds. There's tons of space in this place as well. They were having the opening weekend party there and we were playing as the last band in their performance space which was very nicely lit with tables and candles and a bar and some meat pies. For this gig, Paulie invited two guests up to play the whole set with us. Pete on congas and (damn, i forgot the name) on sax. These guys played sweet and ORS pretty much played sweeter then we've ever played together since i started. I did my best being a guitarist and bassist at the same time in the first set. Again we did Shaft and we did "Pusherman". On set two Glenn was on marimba, Pete was on drums and another friend (i'm bad with names) played bass. During that set we played "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee" by Frank Zappa and Paulie sang it wickedly greatnessed.

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4.4.01 Project/Object - University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 8pm

Went to meet Jordan Shapiro and his bluegrass band, Citigrass, the night before. They were playing a gig at the Rodeo Bar in nyc. Got there and me and Jordonian drove to Matawan, NJ to wes' house so that we could leave early in the morning at 9am to get to UNH by 4pm. Plans worked well and we got to the club. It was there that i searched out our booking guy. Who turned out to be my good friend David Derrick's younger brother! Joe Derrick booked us there and I didn't even know it. I had met Joe and hung out with Joe a good 4-5 times in the past so it was cool to hang again and it was great to have him as a coordinator. We set up our gear and we loved the campus. It was beautiful. A river runs through it. We got to eat 10 dollars worth of food at the Dining Hall (food court) and it was pretty alright....alright. By the time 8pm rolled by it was playing time! We . At this gig, we had some mishaps, but over all, our jams were pretty super, and our improvs and randomoniums were stellar, this was a new crowd to us...since we've never been up in that New England area before and we played to that aspect. Luckily they all approved and they really dug it and cheered. By the end of our second set we were pretty thrilled with the crowd. After the gig, we packed up and stayed at the Holiday Inn in the town that Red Hook beer is from in NH (try to remember the name of the town). It was there that me, roadie/composer rich, and jordonian went to BICKFORDS and met the rudest waiter in the history of my dining. He was such a dick, but when he realized that we weren't impressed anymore he started becoming really nice to us and saying "can i get you anything else" rather than, "Fuck you, i'm gonna smoke my cigarette here at the this table with my friends before i take your order up". That night, Wes, Mumbo, and Head-Roadie Bob took their rented Cargo-truck back home and me and Andre, Rick, and Jordan, stayed at the hotel. Mumbo had to be at a craft show selling drums the next day in Virginia. ON HIS BIRTHDAY! Happy Birthday Mumbo!

4.5.01 Old Rugged Sauce - Right Bank Cafe, Williamsburg, Bklyn 11pm

This gig kicked the most ass because it was the first time that I had played with paulie with a bass player since Dave was here last (when i was still new). So about 7 gigs later we get Alec, a bass player who is back from the road with his band RAGING SLAB who i actually saw open for the melvins at cbgb's a few years ago. With Alec on bass, it opened up a louder, rockin'er sound on behalf of the whole band. I didn't have to worry about playing bassy notes on the guitar to fill in where i needed bass to feel happy. Alec had it all covered and it made all the guitar amps sound better. Even Glenn, who still showed up with just a snare and a ride cymbal, sounded like he had a full kit up there. Very fun. Next week is the last thursday night gig i'll get to do with them until after the upcoming Project/Object tour.