Consciousness, Unconsciousness

I fell asleep at the show, not during Pigface but during the opener. I drove up from Peoria and went to this show with my friend Matt. I was so tired and cranky that I just sat down in back against a wall and took a nap. I felt a lot better afterwards and enjoyed Pigface. 

You're On Your Own

Another show, another remember nothing post...

Under the best of circumstances I would remember very little about this show but this week is certainly not the best of circumstances. I will use stress and lack of sleep as the excuse for me knowing nothing about this show.  I have a world's worth of respect for the Skatalites. If I had to guess I went to this show with my college best friend and we had a great time. That's all I've got. 

This Is The Time (maybe?)

That time I shook Vince Vaughn's hand....I think

For the life of me I can't figure out if the following story happened at this Hepcat show or the next one, which was a year later, but I really feel like it was this one. Regardless, this happened at a Hepcat show. I swear. 

 

First of all, my enjoyment of ska when I was younger has not really carried into adulthood.  That being said, I still really like both Hepcat and the Slackers, who opened for them at this show. 

While watching the Slackers (or if it turns out this did happen at the next Hepcat show then it was during Deals Gone Bad) my friends and I noticed a very tall man, basically hovering over everyone in the crowd. My friend was the first to notice that this giant man was Vince Vaughn. Swingers had come out not long before this and we were all HUGE fans. She basically ran over to him before I even knew what was happening and by the time I got over there she had shaken his hand, talked to him, something, and he was off to make his way back stage. I was not about to let my chance to meet him slip by so when I saw him standing at the side of the stage (with Joey Lauren Adams) I wormed my way up to the front of the stage by the speakers. I waved to get his attention and he waved back. I then shook my head no and put out my hand. He actually bent down and shook my hand. Satisfied, I found my way back to my friends.

I would never do that now. I guess I did force Eric Bachmann to shake my hand and talk to me a couple month ago when he played at my work but I felt like a complete jackass when I did it. Back then, this was a proud moment. 

It's Gonna Take You Years To Find Out

The third time...

The Warped Tour was nice enough to put these posters up on their flickr account so I actually know the bands who played.  In case you can't read that small writing it says:

Descendents, Royal Crown Revue, Blink-182, Pennywise, Sick of It All, The Vandals, Lo Presher, Social Distortion, Millencolin, Bouncing Souls, The Suicide Machines, Face To Face, Lagwagon, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Less Than Jake, Hepcat, Reel Big Fish

Other places on the internet say that the Alkaholiks, Limp Bizkit, Murder City Devils, Orange 9mm, Snot, Strung Out, Sugar Ray, Vision of Disorder, Hi Standard, Latex Generation, White Kaps and Jimmy 2 Times were also there. They're probably the names too little to read at the bottom. 

If I had to guess the bands I watched I would say Descendents, Pennywise, Social D, The Suicide Machines, Hepcat, probably Lagwagon, maybe Millencolin, Orange 9mm but really who knows. You probably could have found me at most of these bands. I just have no memory.