tour 3.08
Saturday, June 1 1996 Austin TX Emo’s
Matt - One of the dumbest and funniest shows. Roman had to manhandle a couple of these guys when they were spraying beer on me. We weren’t playing that well, so who can blame them? Roman stayed on the floor of the club in front of the stage, providing security. Nobody was really there anyway. Worse shows at Emo’s were yet to come. Some friends took us to the remnants of a party where the only laughs were about some guy who’d been tripping and wandered off with someone’s lighter and never returned. A half hour later when we were leaving we saw someone down at the end of the block walking around under a street light. “TRIPPER!” we yelled. He stopped immediately. “TRIPPER! RETURN THE LIGHTER YOU HAVE STOLEN!” We waited a few minutes. He just stood there perfectly still and then took off when he heard the van start up.
Carol - so we left Oklahoma early around 11:00. we are driving to Austin, Texas. about an 8 hr drive. everyone who lives in the house were asleep when we left. it’s a hot day. Texas is so fuckin huge, it’s scary! we are going to spend a few days in Texas. we get to Emo’s. Emo’s is a pretty cool club and Matt’s told me a lot of good things about this place. Kozik posters all over the walls. it’s fuckin hot. there are 3 bands tonight. the Jinkies, us, and La Donna’s. me, Matt & Roman went to a cajun seafood restaurant and stuffed ourselves. first we had some oysters then came our shrimp, crawfish & crabs that were all cooked in the same pot. when the waitress brought them out she just dumped the whole shit on the table and we had to peel off the shells with our hands. it was fun and gross and tasty and gross. they cooked the shell fish with sausage but i ate anyway. it’s the only real seafood i had on this entire tour so i didn’t fuckin care. the three of us got totally full on that shit.
Back at the club, there was actually another band before us called Hot Wheel Jr. or some shitty name like that. 3 of them used to live in Boston. they were not very interesting. i set up the camera and put on my lucky shoes. however, we failed to rock like gods. we sucked pretty bad and there were hardly anybody there to watch us. we put on a lame show but somehow managed to get paid $150. La Donnas sucked as well. i just went straight to the van after our set out of humiliation but their music seeped through the van anyway. it was fuckin hot up there on stage. i didn’t get high before we played and that totally killed it for me. some asshole who thought he was so fuckin punk rock splashed beer at Matt repeatedly when we were playing. sort of like what happened to me in Augusta, Georgia on the last tour. i didn’t see any of it but supposedly Roman took care of that little turd. he got off the stage and took the beer out of the asshole’s hand and poured it all over his head.
6th st. Austin where Emo’s is located is worse than Lansdown in Boston. all the bars and clubs and restaurants in Austin must all be here becuz it’s like mardi gras. the entire street is agiant meat market. so sleazy. so ugly. we are staying at this guy Jeff from 16 Deluxe’s house. first he took us to some lame party. i was not in the mood for party. i couldn’t drink any beer for some reason and just wasn’t high enough. there was this kid tripping on mushroom. he was completely out of his fuckin mind and he stole our lighter. we went over to Jeff’s house finally.the Jinkies people were already there. i didn’t say a word to anyone from that band. they are from Houston. Jeff had a nice dog named Sam.