You Look So Far Away Sometimes

What was I doing in Detroit in February?

My brother and I must have gotten to this show late because we were in the balcony. I remember this specifically because throughout the whole show I watched the photographers. Not that I hadn't thought about it earlier but this show was kind of the moment where I felt really confident in my decision to study photography. I was borderline obsessed with the Afghan Whigs (what's this was business. I get chills thinking about seeing them in a little over a month on their little reunion tour) and yet I was completely distracted trying to figure out what kind of camera the girl taking pictures was using and where she was standing and what it would be like to shoot the Afghan Whigs (which I did at the Double Door, using way too low ISO film and no flash, a year and a half later). Yeah, you get it.

1965 came out about four months before this show and the first time I heard it was in my car. The volume was way up and I didn't know it started with that match noise and it scared the shit out of me. I still love every single album they ever made.

Where Have You Been

I've been trying to picture what the inside of Clutch Cargos looks like for the past two days. It opened after I left for college and I didn't go there very much. This may have been the first/only show that I saw there, although I can vaguely remember going there to meet someone for a drink.  This is unimportant.

Another thing I've been trying to figure out is who went to this show for me. I think I can thank the Swingers soundtrack for knowing who Big Bad Voodoo Daddy was and I feel like the Mighty Blue Kings (a band I still listen to on a very rare occasion) played with them at this show but I can't find anything about it anywhere on the interwebs. I did find out that they're still playing shows, which I find a little bit amusing. 

Anyone? A little Help.

I tried to figure out who else played this show and I can't find anything. There's isn't an extensive list for the Shelter like there is for St. Andrew's Hall.

Did any of you listen to this band? I went to their myspace page (what???) and now to Spotify in an attempt to figure it out and, while I don't hate them, I don't really like them very much. I don't recall listening to them so how I ended up at the show is beyond me. This ticket was pretty cheap so maybe I got it for free?  It's a mystery never to be solved (unless someone who reads this was there with me).  

All The Drunks They Were Singing

I have very little to say about this show, and not because I don't remember but because I simply wasn't there for very long. I got there late. I left early. That was it. Oh, his name is spelled wrong on the ticket stub.

I had other things going on, although I don't remember what, so I showed up super late. I left after only a couple songs but I could tell that he was wasted. My brother, whom I met at the show, reported that it only got worse. So, I missed watching Shane MacGowan attempt to get through this show while getting totally hammered. Pretty standard. 

I Will Do What I Do

I wish my mind was like a sponge and I could just remember everything. This was my first time seeing Fugazi and I can't find the setlist. The video isn't up in the archive. My memory, not so great.

One of the many reasons why I love Fugazi, and I really do, is that they stuck to their guns with the show price. $6! It's the perfect price for my 20 year old broke self.

Before the show bunch of my friends and I  stopped by the rehab facility that our friend was in after having brain surgery months prior. It was a long and tough recovery for him and I tried to be there as much as I could, which wasn't as much as I wanted to since I lived in Illinois. It's pretty difficult to go from visiting your 19 year old friend who is trying to relearn how to walk, talk and feed himself to being super pumped to see a band but we did our best.  I feel like we dedicated this show, because we were playing it and all, to him.

Shellac and Blonde Redhead opened and I feel like we missed both of them. I would see them plenty in my future anyway but I didn't know that at the time.

End Hits had just come and I hadn't really gotten into it yet. I was all about Repeater and 13 Songs at the time. In fact, whenever I think of Fugazi I think of being 15 years old and sitting in the back seat of my friends car driving around Northville while screaming all the lyrics to Promises.  They didn't play it, and I remember being disappointed.

Is it really possible to be that disappointed in a Fugazi show? What I wouldn't give to see them again.