tour 1.04
Tuesday, February 13 1996 Cleveland OH
the Grog Shop
Matt - One fabulous night in Cleveland. New band night, or No pay night. These jerky kids kept bugging us while we played. They were in this artzoid noise drumming band and had so much of an attitude. But the best part about this night was meeting up with these guys calling themselves 100,000 Leagues Under My Nutsack. They were great. Just a guy playing acoustic and the other one was rapping. Probably our favorite group we ran into. The sound guy was really nice to us at first, making fun of the bands, and then when we played, he stopped being nice to us. We left in a massive snowstorm. But drove all night to a Motel 6 in Gary, Indiana.
Zeph - 100,000 Leagues Under My Nutsack also had this smelly guy playing bass on a few songs. They’d never met him before.
Thursday, February 15 1996 Chicago IL Lounge Ax
M - We got here quite early, but they were nice at the club and let us hang out all day. We played with these kids called “Fakir” and they were really friendly. Not many people were there, but Fakir had some friends. We stayed with one of them and hung out most of the night. The people at the club were really good to us.
Z - Fakir had 5 or 6 guitarists with a couple of them plugged through home-stereos.
Friday, February 16 1996 Madison WI O’Cayz Corral
M - It was pretty cold. But the bar was cute and old fashioned. There was a good crowd this night. We played with some local bands and the whole night went over pretty well. The O’Cayz crew were fun.
Thursday, February 22 1996 Lawrence KS The Replay
M - This was the first of two shows with Rocket Attack USA, who are from Norman OK. There were a lot of people there. Lawrence is a cute little college town, but you know for sure that you are in Kansas. Both bands stayed at the same apartment, and it was fun with odd druggy characters staggering around.
Todd Yeager (future CH member) - I was in Rocket Attack at the time, but I don’t remember anything at all about the actual show in Lawrence. Chris Johnson was the guy both bands stayed with. He was an ex-Okie we all knew from Norman and has since passed away. He was a real sweet guy. I think some of us from Rocket Attack formed a band called Starship Motherfucker with him and opened up for both us and Chevy, but I could be thinking of another show. We may or may not have covered a Cinderella song off of “Night Songs”. At any rate, the guys in Chevy were all really excited that CJ had an empty bottle of Methadone prescribed to William S. Burroughs. Apparently Bill used to live in Lawrence while he was trying to kick the Junk. RIP C.J.
Friday, February 23 1996 Oklahoma City OK The Crystal
M - This was a crazy show just from the fact that we had to drive to Salt Lake City for a show the next night. The club was also a Vietnamese-Chinese restaurant, and it was good to eat the food. I liked this club and I hear that it no longer really exists. We played pretty good, and made some friends. And then we had to leave immediately for the incredible drive.
T - This was the beginning of Norman’s love affair with Chevy Heston. It was a Thai restaurant with a disco ball and there was a dude doing cartwheels. What more could you ask for. I have the whole thing on video somewhere.
Winston - We were all really excited because Z had been telling us for weeks how much people loved us in Oklahoma. I generally don’t like playing in restaurants, but this time was different because I knew people were coming to see us and everything was going to be alright. I didn’t want to jinx things so I kept a low profile until it was time to go on. We took the stage and light was reflecting all around the room and I could see glimpses of teenagers. We went over well, we talked to some girls, and we got in the van and left immediately, because in less than twenty-four hours in a room twelve hundred miles away there would be ten people watching us as they drank 3.2 percent alcohol by volume.
