Heading out to go load gear soon, so I'll make this quick.
We're a 2 piece instrumental metal band, I like to call our genre "Cthulhu doomnoise." The guy who does my tattoos put us in touch with a bar owner who was trying to put together a metal show to benefit a friend of his who was in a motorcycle crash. Cool, we're in! Show is in 2 weeks, short notice, but whatever.
No fucking word from the venue owner until 2 nights ago, and now we're the ONLY metal band on the bill. Before us is a folk/jazz group, and then a party rock rent-a-band style group is doing 90 minutes before us. Nobody wants to bring their own gear, so everyone asked us for drums and amps. We got so fed up with waiting on show details from the owner that was said "fuck this." Owner has done 0 promo or anything, I can't even find websites for the other bands playing.
Now we're just gonna show up with 2 guitars, no drums, and play some Sunn style shit. OR, if the vibe is really bad around 1AM (when we're supposed to go on), we'll just plug our pedal boards into the drummer's switch and play Mario Kart on stage and fuck with the noises from that and call it art.
Fun times.
Update: first band is on and they're a Chicago style blues band and I have no idea what we're doing here.
Sounds par for the course. My punk band used to do Wagon Wheel (this was like 12 years ago when I only knew that song cause Laura Jane Grace did a cover) and we got thrown out of a few house parties cause we didn't have any other shit like that.
Yeah, my big inspiration back then was Social Distortion (still is, tbh. Wear a lot of western shirts). So we'd have a backlog of classic country, but everyone in the crowd got annoyed because they didnt know the songs. We ended up getting bored, and just finished with Freebird, because we knew the joke and prepared it for every show we did.
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