J Masics is God...

Last night I went to see one of my favorite bands of all times. Dinosaur Jr. was in E Town to play the Starlite Club and man was I stoked. I think Robby DuPuis, of the Minneapple DuPuis, was the dude who turned me on to this band. Back in the early and late nineties I used to rock Dino Jr. all the time. Of course living in North Dakota a person is not generally going to get the chance to see Dino Jr. Jason Manning, of the Sonic 102.9 Mannings, scored me the duckets to the show and me and Paulie went to the show. Paulie thought we were going to see The Screaming Trees, which would have been totally cool also, but I informed him of his mistake and he was still game.

Manning told me that Jr. was supposed to hit the stage around 10 so Paulie picked me up at around 9:30 and we rocked it to the Starlite. When we got there there was a line up, not at the front door but on the side. Which I guess is how you get into this joint. Well the side door is up this corridoor that is about as wide as two of me. Nice, claustrophobic as I am, this is all I need. Plus if there was a fire in this place, we are all dead. All I could think of was the Great White show where the bar burned. Oh well, it is all for J and his screaming guitar.

As we were standing in line we both were pretty much in agreement that we think it is sooo much easier to stay at home and watch TV. Yup we are old. Ten years ago I would have been at the door by 7pm first in line ready to rock. Not any more. Just way too old for this. I will however make an exception for J Masics.

At Christmas I got a pair of custom made ear plugs from the Davis', of the Regina Davis'. Green and Gold colored I might add. If you would have told me a few years ago that I would be taking ear plugs to a show I would have popped you in the schnoz. Lately I have been noticing all the times I can't hear things and I really think that it has something to do with going to around a thousand shows in the last 20 or so years. Maybe standing right up front by the stack of amps at the Wilco show was not a good idea, or maybe the volume at the Foo Fighters wasn't really that low. Anyway, what I am getting at is that I am getting old. Man that sucks, especially since I seem to forget my plugs and my ears are still ringing over 24 hours later. Robby DuPuis has informed me of his intention to see Dino on Wednesday and his ears are worse than mine. Robby remember your plugs. They were fricking loud. I see a trend here. I am old.

We get inside and one of the opening acts is just leaving the stage. As he left he said "Fu#k you Edmonton!". Nice, can't wait to see who is next. Well next was a band from Michigan named "Awesome Color". Not bad. The bass player looked like he was about 16 but he was good. The Drummer was a chick and she just beat the hell out of the drums. Not bad. Off to a good start.

One thing though, lately I have been watching the people as much as I have been the shows. During the Color show we were along the wall of this club, which had a slanting floor in front of the stage. Slanted away from the stage, anyway, we are against the wall and these hippies roll up and stand in front of us. Not usually a bad thing but one of the hippies was the only other dude in the joint taller than me. Plus they smelled really bad. REALLY bad. They split for the Dino show which was good, kinda.

Dino Jr. hit the stage at about 11:30pm. Nice, just a bit late. Again I am getting old. After the hippies left this guy, who had to be about 50, rolled up. He was totally drunk, out on his feet. You know how sometimes there is a guy at a show who likes to yell songs at the band. You know the "FREEBIRD" guy. Well this guy after every song yelled "Start Chopping". Which is a great song, but obviously is a late in ths show song. EVERY SONG he yelled it. Dino Jr. did not play the song and I hold this a-hole responsible. After the show I heard him say, why did they not play "Out There". They played that song and he was singing along so much that I even heard him over the band. Drunk guys.

Speaking of, the dude in the pic above with the mohawk decided during "Feel the Pain" to make a stage dive. Now if you have seen the movie with Pauly Shore where he is this guy from the city who goes to the farm. There is scene where a guy stage dives and the crowd separates and he goes flat on his face. Well that is what happened here. Funniest thing I have seen in a long time.

Man, my ears are still ringing. As you can see I got a few pics. Usually I take a bunch but I caught some shit for taking these. Of course I was not the only one with a camera in the joint but I was the one who caught shit. Probably because I blot out the sun. The guy told me that if I had a camera phone it would be okay but not a camera. What? Same thing. He told me "No Photography". I told him this is not photography, it is just a picture. If I was doing photography I would have a real camera. So I need to get a camera phone so I do not catch shit? Robby said he is going to send me a pic from the show he sees on Wednesday. I already warned him about the phone thing.

Anyway, Dino Jr. totally ruined my hearing, and I went to sleep happy about seeing one of my favorite bands even if they are a bit past their prime. Wait, I guess the same could be said for me.

NEXT: Garner Andrews got a brush with greatness this week. Check it out..

Chris Kattan did an interview with Garner, and the dude from Jackass bagged him. Sweet. If you want to listen to the interview CLICK HERE

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