place: MURPHY'S

year: 2008

shirt worn: THE TONY DANZA TAP DANCE EXTRAVAGANZA

type of show: official

bands:

BENEATH THE MASSACRE

SEEYOUNEXT TUESDAY

BORN OF OSIRIS

THE TONY DANZA TAP DANCE EXTRAVAGANZA

ThePhalanx

BEFORE WE SLEEP...

went with: Dan Grant & Christina Goldman

show was: your mom

entry:

Hmmm.......It's spring break in the second semester of my second year in college. It's 3/10/2008. It took me forever to find a ride to this show. Somehow Christina and I convinced Dan to drive us down to Boca to see this shit go down. The show was originally supposed to be at The Underground, the new club by where RAY'S and SPANKY'S were, but I guess a pipe leaked or something, so the show got moved to here, MURPHY'S Downtown Bar and Grill. VANQUISH THE WEAK, the band I got kicked out of, was also the local band originally set to open, but they got moved to opening for THIS IS HELL a week before. In fact, when they opened for THIS IS HELL, it was right after they came back from a tour with ThePhalanx, who was one of the local bands now set to open tonight, along with BEFORE WE SLEEP... the local band that Dan's band played with the last time I was here. So, anyways, we get down to MURPHY'S. We park behind the place. That giant puddle is still there. We are greeted by the fellows from BEFORE WE SLEEP... Sam, the black kid, sells us tickets. We go around the corner. We go around the other corner. I run into Ernesto, guitarist of VANQUISH THE WEAK. He introduces me to Paul, guitarist of ThePhalanx. I run into Sam Wise, keyboardist of ThePhalanx who I went to Middle School of the Arts with. We were talking about ho Ebbon Oroz, singer of Indulgence is apparently an MMA fighter now. Then I talked to the guy that plays the acoustic guitarist from ThePhalanx (they have two electric and one acoustic guitars). I asked him if they still had the same singer from when I saw them two years ago. Their old singer was the guy from a fragile line that booked the imagine show in Pompano with me. Anyways, he had split and now they had a new singer. I talked to the new singer about the NILE show that I missed and he made it to. I ran into Butler, the bassist from THE TONY DANZA TAP DANCE EXTRAVAGANZA. He was like "You look familiar," and I was like "The last time you were here you spent the night at my friend's house and we made you pancakes in the morning," and he was like "In West Palm?" and I was like "Yah," and he was like "With PSYOPUS?" and I was like "Yah," and he was like "I don't remember it, but thanks. I'd ask you for a place to stay tonight but we got a nine hour drive to Pensacola tomorrow." So, I'm waiting in line talking to whoever the fuck and some bald guy standing by a green van with a bunch of other guys in it is like "Hey kid!" and I'm like "...Yah?" He says "What's your name?" I said "....Travis?" He said, "Come here" so I walked over and he points to my shirt and says to the other guys, "This is old school." Then he shakes my hand and goes "I'm the drummer from THE TONY DANZA TAP DANCE EXTRAVAGANZA." I was like "You guys spent the night at my friend's house two years ago and gave me this shirt. I don't remember you though." He said "Yah. I'm new. Thanks for weain the shirt and supporting the band." I saw one of the guitarists on the way in too. Everyone from VANQUISH THE WEAK was there except Josh, the drummer. I talked to all those dudes. Everyone from COSA NOSTRA was there except the bassist, Tyler. I talked to all those dudes. BEFORE WE SLEEP... got on. There was one guy dancing, and it was a fat guy in a striped polo shirt, that annoyed Christina all night by existing. Oh, yah, and there was also another fat kid dancing with tight pants and gauges all in his face. The place was packed. It's a fucking bar. BEFORE WE SLEEP... has a really good singer. He sing, high scream, and low scream really well. Before a breakdown, Sam was like "Ain't nothin but a G thang baby!" They're all post hardcore. They're good. After that, ThePhalanx got on and rocked the house down. Dude, they were so good. Those guys are rad, and they're even better now. Their shit is epic as fuck. I love that medieval renaissance shit they got in there. Gosh. There was nothing going on with the crowd except appreciation for it. The new singer is a phenomenal screamer, but it doesn't quite go with the music in my opinion. He can do any kind of scream, but I think they need a power metal screamer. It's funny case the last time I saw them, they were opening for a show that TONY DANZA was playing at. THE TONY DANZA TAP DANCE EXTRAVAGANZA got on, and holy shit. I haven't seen it get that nuts in a while. Kids were going crazy. People were jumping off the bar and shit. I couldn't help but notice, my favorite member of the band is gone as well, Mr. Chuck Norris look-alike. Another thing I couldn't help but notice was that, when they spent the night at Brian's house two years ago, they said they were going to kick out their singer, Jessie, but he was still in the band. He was awesome too. For the woo part in Cliff Burton surprise, he was like "Everyone. Let me hear the most dirty south Florida woo you can give me" and everyone was like "Woo!" and into the song. There was a hillbilly lady who was wearing TTDTDE shirt on the outside of the pit, and I guess this tall kid who was dancing accidentally kicked her. Immediately, this big fat mother fucker in an acacia strain shirt grappels the kid to the ground and everyone's like "What the fuck?" I guess the lady was his wife. A couple minutes later the kid tries to dance again and the guy pushes him up against the wall and says something to him all up in his face, so everyone gangs up the guy and is like "Get the fuck outta here. We're at a show. If you don't wanna get hit, don't stand next to the pit." So, the guy and the lady leave. Then the fat kid that dances all night that Christina hates jumps off the bar...but no one catches him....and he lands on his face. It was soooooo fucking funny. BORN OF OSIRIS was really good. Those guys are really fucking creative. So, the whole night had been full of energy and dancing and injuries and then SEEYOUNEXT TUESDAY gets on and all of that is drained away. As soon as they play, they go retarded and jump all over the place, and the whole time they were playing, they were like everywhere. I like noisecore, and all that shit, but they're just straight noise. Like we were all so fucking tired when they got on, I'm not even lying. Like we were just waiting for some crazy shit, cause I heard that they were like this awesome grind band, and then they got and, just uuuuuuhhhhhhh. So, I was like, see you next never and went to talk to Butler. He said Chuck Norris quit the band cause he didn't like touring. He said things are ok with Jessie now. He said they still all love country. Let's se, then all the scene kids left, Dan went to sleep in his car (that's what SYNT does to you) and that left me, Christina, and a bunch of old, drunk dudes for BENEATH THE MASSACRE. They were ill as fuck. They sounded just like they do on CD. This guy with dreds showed up out of no where. He had a broken hand. He was doing tybo in the pit. He punched himself in the face. I was like "Dude, someone get this crack head out of here." It was so funny I thought I was going to pee my pants. Then we went hooooooome.