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Read MoreWatershed Hullabaloo Weekend: The View From the Side of the Stage - by Ricki C.
Watershed Hullabaloo Weekend, August 9th, 10th & 11th, 2019
(editor’s note: Ricki C. had carpal tunnel surgery on both hands this summer, couldn’t type, has been out of commission for awhile, and now – unfortunately – the Pencil Storm readership is gonna pay for it. Strap in, folks, it’s gonna be a long one.)
WATERSHED / 1992 or so
A little deep background: I met Watershed in 1990 when I was a roadie for Willie Phoenix & the True Soul Rockers and they were still called The Wire. The Wire would open for the True Soul Rockers one Saturday night a month at a Columbus, Ohio, club called Ruby Tuesday where Willie maintained a monthly residency. To make a long story short: 3 or 4 months into their opening slots – after they had changed their name to Watershed – they somehow wrote an entirely new set of KILLER power-pop originals since the previous month (including “Rise,” my earliest favorite Watershed tune), got their asses moving onstage, and soundly blew the True Soul Rockers off the stage at Ruby’s. (Ironically that Great Leap Forward was probably largely due to Willie’s tutelage as he produced their first six-song e.p.) They also got 86’d as the opening band for that impertinence, of course, but from that point on I caught them live every time I could. From 1990 to 2005 I bet I saw ‘em close to a hundred times. From 2005 when I joined their road crew to now, I’ve seen ‘em a couple hundred more. And I’ve never ONCE been disappointed.
Which brings us to this past weekend: from being on the crew I’ve seen Watershed three nights in a row any number of times, but never in three more widely-varied rock & roll circumstances as The Watershed Hullabaloo.
The Friday night show at Natalie’s Coal Fired Pizza – Columbus’ absolutely premier listening room (as opposed to rock & roll dive) – found Colin & Joe seated on secondhand living room furniture that road manager extraordinaire/all-around Watershed tech mastermind Michael “Biggie” McDermott had somehow procured in some kind of time warp from the early 1970’s. Truthfully, I’m not crazy about the idea of rock & rollers performing sitting down, but it fit the concept of “two old friends swapping stories & songs around the campfire” vibe that Watershed was going for the first night of the Hullabaloo.
Opening with “Sensational Things” – a tune I’m DEARLY hoping opens the upcoming Watershed CD – Joe & Colin strummed through maybe a dozen songs, old AND new, peppering the set with the stories behind the songs, or just yarns that filled in the history of the band, and that’s a RICH history, boys & girls. They were then joined by middle-period Watershed powerhouse Mr. Dave Masica for a standing-up set of Watershed rockers, albeit it in a bass-less, acoustic, quiet hollow-body electric kinda frame of mind. A night of “Soft Rock Watershed” as the appearance was billed. They still woulda blown Bread off the stage. (Set-list for this show and the Saturday & Sunday gigs will appear in a future Pencil Storm blog entry.)
Friday night highlights: “Sensational Things,” “Plan B,” “American Muscle,” “Manifesto,” and Joe Peppercorn’s (the only past member of Watershed unable to make an appearance during Hullabaloo Weekend) “Set The World On Fire.”
At heart Watershed has always been a Saturday night rock & roll band. When they played on a Wednesday night after a (now-defunct) Columbus Chill hockey game in the mid-1990’s, they were a Saturday night rock & roll band; when they played third on the bill on a Tuesday night at some long-forgotten rock club during one of their innumerable Southern swings in the early 2000’s, they were a Saturday night rock & roll band; when they opened for Cheap Trick at a huge downtown outdoor festival on a Friday night, they were a Saturday night rock & roll band.
So, when you put Colin, Joe, Herb & Rick Kinsinger in front of a sold-out crowd of Watershed super-fans at Marcy Mays’ Ace of Cups – Columbus’ coolest rock club – on a warm August Saturday night you’d best believe you’re gonna get a fucking KILLER set of rock & roll music. So let’s check off the boxes on the rock & roll checklist:
1) Rockers – You got your “You Need Me,” you got your “Suckerpunch,” you got your “Black Concert T-shirt.” Check.
2) You got your heartbreaker ballads/slow tunes that set Watershed apart from the one-trick pony bands who only know how to pound, but never how to charm, because Colin & Joe always keep in mind that more hearts get broken on Saturday night than any other time of the week: “Over Too Soon,” “New Depression,” and “Anniversary,” for Chrissakes, one of the great power-pop ballads of all time. Check.
3) You’ve got your brace of brand-new songs, ‘cuz Watershed is never gonna be just a nostalgia act, chums: “Blow It Up Before It Breaks” and the GREAT new “Another Night In The Ruts.” Check. (By the way, the band enlisted Pencil Storm scribe Scott Carr to help out with stage duties to free up Biggie for the killer light display witnessed Saturday night, and Scott & I were trying to figure WHO’s song that was a cover of, before I checked with Colin on Sunday and discovered it is, in fact, another choice new original.) (But Jesus H. Christ, WHY didn’t they bust out “Sensational Things” at Ace of Cups? I’d have LOVED to get a full band Watershed airing of that on Saturday night.) Check.
4) Audience participation. You want audience participation? How about “How Do You Feel” and “Can’t Be Myself”? Check.
5) Flat-out great songs that should have been hits: “Obvious,” “Small Doses,” “Little Mistakes,” “5th Of July,” “The Best Is Yet To Come,” really too many too mention. Check & check.
Prime extra-musical moments of the Saturday night set: Joe throwing a tantrum AND his bass when his tuner kept screwing up; Mark “Pooch” Borror bringing the energy level up several notches in his guest slot on “Can’t Be Myself and “Anniversary.” Rick is a solid player and a stabilizing force in the band, but Pooch brings out some special sense of abandon and flat-out JOY when he’s up there with Watershed; Colin calling the show over seven songs into the set after “Black Concert T-Shirt,” and the band playing another 17 songs or so as an encore, before the “second encore” of “Sad Drive” and “Mercurochrome.” Genius performance move.
Okay, I’m already over my allotted 1000 words and haven’t dealt with Day Three of the Hullabaloo Weekend yet. Sunday was billed as “Watershed & Friends” and those friends included Jim Johnson (Willie Phoenix/League Bowlers), Dan Cochran (League Bowlers/Hilltop Lager), Marcy May (Scrawl/Ace of Cups) and Mike Sammons (Twin Cam.) Innumerable Watershed/League Bowlers/Lonely Bones/Colin solo songs and cover tunes from Willie Phoenix, Georgia Satellites, Cheap Trick & Chuck Berry all got played, the beer flowed freely, and – from my view at the side of the stage – the assembled multitudes had a rockin’ good time. (Again, set-list from Sunday to follow in a later Colin blog about Hullabaloo Weekend.)
Musical highlights of the Sunday show: “Battleship Chains,” “Twister,” “High Roller.”
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: I’ve got the best job in the world. – Ricki C. / August 13th, 2019
WATERSHED / 2019
(random closing thought: I was talking to Nick Jezierny - auteur of The Watershed Complete Rankings - after the show on Sunday, and he was saying if he did the list today, a ton of the rankings would be different, and that he should do the whole thing over again. I ABSOLUTELY agreed with him, and told him he should do it, but on the other hand his wife seems like a REALLY nice person and I don’t want to do that to her. Also - to my knowledge - Nick came all the way from Idaho for the Hullabaloo Weekend, so he should get some kind of prize or grant money just for THAT.)
(further random closing thought: for Pencil Storm readers with WAY too much time on their hands, here are some links to Watershed stories I did on my 2012-2013 blog, Growing Old With Rock & Roll…….)
Growing Old With Rock & Roll / Colin & the Stairwell
Growing Old With Rock & Roll / Watershed & Kamakaze’s
Growing Old With Rock & Roll / Watershed & The Somnabulistic Stickman Streaker
GOWR&R / The View from the Side of the Stage, part one
GOWR&R / The View From the Side of the Stage, part two
GOWR&R / My Ten Most Memorable Moments as a Watershed Roadie, part one
GOWR&R / My Ten Most Memorable Moments as a Watershed Roadie, part two
GOWR&R / My Ten Most Memorable Moments as a Watershed Roadie, part three
Mel Kiper's Big Board: Ranking All the KISS Unmasked Songs
Mel's Kiper's Big Board: Ranking the KISS Unmasked Songs
The Unmasked draft is set. On Sunday February 18 in Cobo Hall in Detroit, six teams will be drafting songs from the KISS non-makeup era. Lick It Up to Revenge. Ping pong balls were pulled last week and the draft order is: 1) Matt Walters 2) Scott Carr 3) Mike Lovins 4) Jeremy Porter 5) Colin Gawel 6) David Martin. Click here to learn more about the teams and the draft process .
To get you primed for the event we asked ESPN draft guru Mel Kiper Jr. to give us his expert opinion on how he sees the draft working out. Remember, his Big Board is NOT a mock draft and does not reflect what team needs must be addressed specifically. It's an overall assessment of how he values each song. Once again, this is NOT the actual draft, just an expert's best guess. The real draft results will be posted Thursday February 22nd at Pencilstorm.
Take it away Mel Kiper Jr!!
1 - Unholy / Revenge: The clear number one, the best Gene song by a country mile
2 - I've Had Enough / Animalize: Probably the best written, hardest-rocking Paul song of the non-makeup era This song can make all the throws.
3 - Heart of Chrome / Revenge: My favorite Vinnie co-write and my favorite song on Revenge .
4 - Fits Like A Glove / Lick It Up: Such a great Gene song, even if it was overplayed live
5 - Tears Are Falling / Asylum: Maybe the best pure Paul song of the 80's
6 - Domino / Revenge: Even if it was ripped off of a Black & Blue song, it still rips
7 - Lick It Up / Lick It Up: Great, even after a million times This song ran a 4.3 at the Kiss combine.
8- Heaven's On Fire / Animalize: Same as LIU
9 - Not For The Innocent / Lick It Up: An excellent LIU chestnut
10 - Thrills In the Night / Animalize: Such an astute piece of writing for a great album of Paul material
11 - Get All You Can Take / Animalize: Love this song, even with the over the top "fucking"
12 - Thou Shalt Not / Revenge: A return to form for the demon, a heavyweight in topic and music
13 - A Million To One / Lick It Up: One of the greatest Paul power-ballads ever.
14 - Every Time I Look At You / Revenge: Such a delicate song - no doubt heavily influenced by Ezrin
15 - King of the Mountain / Asylum: Such a great opener - is there a better Carr drum track?
16 - Hell or High Water / Crazy Nights: Underrated CN nugget from the Demon. Might be Kulick's best co-write.
17 - Turn On The Night / Crazy Nights: Who doesn't love a little Diane Warren cheese?
18 - I'll Fight Hell To Hold You / Crazy Nights: A great song in the vein of the other hardest Paul tracks from the 80's
19 - God Gave Rock and Roll To You / Revenge: Just a great song and a great cover choice.
20 - Who Wants To Be Lonely / Asylum: Might be the best melodic song on Asylum
21 - Reason to Live / Crazy Nights: The song that saved Crazy Nights. Great chorus.
22 - Forever / Hot In the Shade: Not my favorite, but hard not to rate it up there.
23 - Crazy Crazy Nights / Crazy Nights: Just a great anthem. Makes big plays in big games.
24 - Gimme More / Lick It Up Another LIU classic.
25 - Young And Wasted / Lick It Up: Fond memories of Carr singing this one live.
26 - Under The Gun / Animalize: Rounding out Paul's big 5 from Animalize
27 - Exciter / Lick It Up: Not the greatest opener, but still a great song.
28 - And On The 8th Day / Lick It Up: Might be the best closing track of all the 80's albums.
29 - Take It Off / Revenge: It's cheesy, but it slams.
30 - Good Girl Gone Bad / Crazy Nights: I've always thought this Gene song was underrated (and his CN material holds up better than Paul's)
31 - Hide Your Heart / Hot In the Shade: A well-written song with a great chorus. Of the times, but it still works.
32 - Betrayed / Hot In the Shade: I've always thought this was an OVERRATED song by KISS fans simply because HITS was a bad album
33 - Paralyzed / Revenge: I like this tune, but it doesn't rate that high because I like so many others better.
34 - Dance All Over Your Face / Lick It Up: I've liked this song better than I probably should. It's just a typical Gene sleazefest.
35 - Just Wanna / Revenge: I don't really dig this song, but it really worked live and is well- written despite the Summertime Blues-isms
36 - All Hell's Breaking Loose / Lick It Up: I've never liked this song. The Paul rap thing doesn't work for me.
37 - Thief In The Night / Crazy Nights: This song isn't bad, but it just doesn't really have enough for me.
38 - Tough Love / Revenge: An interesting song that needed a better chorus. Sounds too much like a worse version of Heart of Chrome
39 - Little Caesar / Hot In the Shade: I think this isn't bad, but I've never thought it was that great. I think because it's Eric's vocal debut it's overrated
40 - Rise To It / Hot In the Shade: Maybe the most overrated song ever. It's so funny how retro rock briefly became this terribly white blues in 88-89. It's good, but…..
41 - Cadillac Dreams / Hot In the Shade: I LOVE this song, but many hate it. It's not great but I love Gene's solo because he took these kind of chances, so…...
42 - Any Way You Slice It / Asylum: It's not as awful as it could be. The end is atrocious, though. Any time a song ends like that it's gets deducted major points
43 - Trial By Fire / Asylum: Pretty good song for its placement, but not a winner
44 - I'm Alive / Asylum: Not a bad song, but a milquetoast Paul thrasher. Essentially Under the Gun II Talent pool is deep at this position, no need to reach.
45 - Love's a Deadly Weapon / Asylum: Not a terrible song either, but kind of forgettable
46 - Uh! All Night! / Asylum I hate this song because the chorus sucks to me. I get it, but I'm not onboard.
47 - Secretly Cruel / Asylum: The Double Virgo cover makes me like it more than I would without that reference point…...
48 - King of Hearts / Hot In the Shade: Average HITS song but that's not saying much
49 - Prisoner of Love / Hot In the Shade: Another average HITS song - some days I love it, some days…...
50 - Silver Spoon / Hot In the Shade: Apparently this is the part of the list where average HITS songs go to die. I like the message better than the execution.
51 - When Your Walls Come Down / Crazy Nights: There's nothing that says we're getting close to the bottom like Crazy Nights filler
52 - The Street Giveth / Hot In the Shade: This is a great idea for a song, if not the best song. I tend to like it more than not because I like Bowie
53 - Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell / Hot In the Shade: Firmly in the not bad category, but not good either.
54 - Spit / Revenge: The Spinal Tapisms just don’t' work for me at all
55 - You Love Me To Hate You / Hot In the Shade: Too whiny
56 - Lonely Is the Hunter / Animalize: You know what else is lonely? The bottom of the rankings Really hurt itself with a terrible performance at the East/West Shrine game.
57 - You Make Me Rock Hard / Smashes Thrashes & Hits: I can't do the Smashes Thrashes and Hits tunes
58 - Let's Put the X in Sex / Smashes Thrashes & Hits: see above
59 - While the City Sleeps / Animalize: I try to make this song good because I want it to work. It really doesn't
60 - Love's A Slap in the Face / Hot In the Shade: Just kind of there
61 - Carr Jam '81 / Revenge: Not really a song
62 - Radar For Love / Asylum: Paul gets embarrassing
63 - Murder in High Heels / Animalize: Gene really took a shit on Animalize, didn't he?
64 - Burn Bitch Burn / Animalize: A song I truly struggle not to skip - Off field problems raise a red flag.
65 - Boomerang / Hot In the Shade: Laughing out loud at this song moved it up a few spots from the bottom
66 - My Way / Crazy Nights: Paul the Eunuch
67 - Read My Body / Hot In the Shade: So I dub thee Unforgivable
68 - No, No, No / Crazy Nights: No, No, No is right.
69 - Bang Bang You / Crazy Nights: The Unforgivable II
Mel Kiper Jr. may or may not actually be Matt Walters. If you read this to the very end, you deserve and have earned the truth.
A Recap of TV Party Tonight! Season One: January - March 2017, Episodes 1-10
Congratulations! If you are looking to kill about 300 hours of time watching music videos, you have come to the right place. Each TV Party Tonight! episode is designed to be a launching point for your own never-ending rabbit hole. We set 'em up and you knock 'em down. Below is a summary of Season One, which is sure to keep you up past your bedtime and leave you bleary-eyed the next day. They also make for fine conversation starters with people you disagree with on Facebook. Enjoy!!! - Colin G.
TV Party Tonight Part One: A George Martin Rehearsal with Queen by Colin Gawel
Part Two : Friday's by Scott Carr. (featuring The Clash, Devo, Stray Cats, KISS and more)
Part Three: My Inauguration Rabbit Hole. Colin goes on a post-election bender and takes you along for the ride. (Featuring RATM, Dylan, Prince, 3 Doors Down, Buddy Miller, The Hives and many more. Seriously, he was on a bender.
Part Four: The Dictators and The Neighborhoods by Ricki C.
Part Five : Mark Linkous of The Dancing Hoods and Sparkle Horse by JCE
Part Six: Random Stuff from Great Rock Docs by Colin Gawel
Part Seven: Powerful Political Music for President's Day (featuring Staple Singers, Bob Dylan, Neil Young and more) by Anne Marie
Part Eight: Generation Axe (featuring Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson and more) by Wal Ozello
Part Nine: Gulity Pleasures (featuring Gwen Stefani, Britney Spears, Aerosmith, Van Halen, The Bangles and more) by Jeremy Porter
Part Ten: Bands I've gotten mail from. (featuring The Dictators, The Pop, The Atlantics and more) by Ricki C.
January, 1981: April Wine Releases The Nature Of The Beast - by Scott Carr
April Wine The Nature Of The Beast Released January 1981
After a decade of releasing albums, Canada's April Wine made their commercial breakthrough with The Nature Of The Beast in January of 1981. April Wine formed in Nova Scotia in late 1969 and soon relocated to Montreal. The band signed their first record deal with Aquarius Records and released their self titled debut album in 1971.
April Wine continued to release records and tour throughout Canada during the 70's. By 1977 lead vocalist/guitarist Myles Goodwyn was the only member that remained from the band's original lineup but the band seemed to be settling in to a stable configuration. During 1977 April Wine played a charity concert at the El Mocambo Club in Toronto opening for The Cockroaches. The Cockroaches turned out to be The Rolling Stones playing under a secret identity, but it was a fairly well known secret and the event drew a huge crowd. April Wine recorded a live record at the El Mocambo show and the Stones also recorded their set and used some of the recordings on their Love You Live record.
April Wine toured the United States for the first time in 1977, including some dates with The Rolling Stones. The band also added a third guitar player during this time which gave them a harder edge and would be the final piece to complete the band's classic line up.
1978's First Glance album was the first to feature the new three guitar version of April Wine and was the bands first significant commercial success outside of Canada. The album featured the FM rock radio staple "Roller" which became a Top 40 hit in the US and gave the band their first gold album outside of Canada. Harder Faster followed in 1979 and featured another hit with the song "I Like To Rock" and also included a great cover of King Crimsons "21st Century Schizoid Man." Harder Faster also went gold in the US.
With two radio hits under their belt and touring that had taken them around the globe, the time seemed right for April Wine to achieve major success. The band delivered their 9th record, The Nature Of The Beast on January 12th, 1981 and from the first note it feels like this is the one.
The Nature Of The Beast opens with "All Over Town" and "Tellin' Me Lies," two upbeat rockers that set a tone for a record that is near perfect. Up next is one of the two big hits from the record, "Sign Of The Gypsy Queen." This song is actually a cover of a song released in 1972 by a Canadian singer/songwriter named Lorence Hud. April Wine gave the song an overhaul and made it completely their own and it became a huge hit on radio and MTV. I remember seeing the video on MTV almost every time I turned on the TV. This was the very early days of MTV and most of the videos at that time were live performance videos, which was the case with the videos taken from The Nature Of The Beast.
Next was the album's biggest hit, the power ballad "Just Between You and Me." The song has all the signatures of a great power ballad ....a delicate vocal, catchy chorus, a blistering lead guitar and for good measure one line sung in French. This song also received heavy play on MTV and was the band's highest charting single, hitting No. 21 on the Billboard singles chart. "Just Between You and Me" could be compared to REO Speedwagon's "Keep On Loving You" but I think April Wine would win the battle of the power ballads.
The rest of the album is nothing but wall to wall ROCK! The real star of this record is the guitar. This is a guitar record - or better yet - a three-guitar-attack record. Highlights include "Crash and Burn," "Future Tense," "Wanna Rock," "Big City Girls" and "One More Time".
The Nature Of The Beast was recorded in England in 1980 just after the band finished up a tour of the UK and made an appearance at the Monsters of Rock festival. The album was co - produced by Mike Stone, who had worked extensively with Queen and had also mixed Paul Stanley's 1978 Kiss solo album. Stone managed to capture April Wine's live energy and helped them construct an album that still sounds great 37 years later.
The Nature Of The Beast is one of those records were everything seemed to go right: it sounds great, the performances are amazing and all the songs are winners. I have a short list of other records that also fall into that "everything seemed to go right" category: REO Speedwagon's Hi Infidelity, Billy Squier's Don't Say No, Blue Oyster Cult's Fire Of Unknown Origin and a few others. Not saying they are the most important records ever made but if I am having one of those days were it seems like there is nothing to listen to, I can pop on one of those records and think, "Yeah, this is a great record!"
The Nature Of The Beast is a GREAT record!
Scott Carr is a guitarist who plays in the Columbus, OH bands Radio Tramps andReturning April. Scott is also an avid collector of vinyl records and works at Lost Weekend Records. So...if you are looking for Scott....you'll either find him in a dimly lit bar playing his guitar or in a record store digging for the holy grail.
Pencilstorm Rockers Have Rocking Gigs Coming Up - by Jeff Hassler
Want to rock the night away with some of the guys from Pencilstorm? In September and beyond, Scott, Colin and Wal will all be appearing locally (but separately). Check out the details below. - Jeff Hassler
Colin Gawel
Every Thursday
Pencilstorm Editor-In-Chief and infamous Columbus rocker, Colin Gawel, takes his solo talents to the stage every Thursday night at the Four String Taproom on West Sixth in Grandview Hts. A more intimate version of his solo bands and Watershed, Colin sounds like part Springsteen jamming out his acoustic on the Jersey Shore with a little bit of Black Crowes and The Rolling Stones mixed in. But like the good Black Crowes that played "She Talks to Angels." Not that hippy stuff. Make sure to catch his set starting at 9pm. Every week will be a different set of Watershed, League Bowlers and solo tunes. Though he has still NEVER played "Wanted Dead or Alive" even though I request it all the time. One time I covered his rent and he promised to play it for me one day. Could that day be one of these days?? It's only fair. Just sayin'. A quick word of warning about Four String Brew, everybody knows I'm a Coors Light guy but I do really like their new Hilltop Lager. But last time I was at the taproom for our Thursday night pinball league, Greg May bought me a couple of Switchblade IPA and I threw up all over the KISS game and ended up asleep in the Five Guys dumpster covered in mustard and some kind of sauce resembling mayonnaise. That Switchblade packs a punch so take er sleezy when you are sucking down those sudz! Hassler warned ya!!
Radio Tramps
Sept. 23
Resident discographer and historian, Scott Carr, will be rocking out with his band Radio Tramps this Saturday, September 23 at Cardo's Pizza & Tavern in Pickerington. Performing hits that span nearly four decades of rock, dance and pop, the Radio Tramps will give you a total live, raw and in-your-face four-hour music experience. With soaring vocals, high energy, and a relentless pursuit of fun, they are sure to please all night long. The show starts at 8:30 pm. Get your grub on, get your drink on and get Tramped! I should know. I got Tramped at their Red, White and Boom show, tried to hug Tiffany and then fell off the stage in front of thousands of people. Even worse, my boss, Mr. Johansen saw the video on youtube and suspended me from all church activities for three weeks. Very embarrassing. Great band though!
Armada
Sept. 30
Wal Ozello will be fronting his band, Armada, next Saturday, September 30 at King Avenue 5. Once credited as "Rush meets Bon Jovi," Armada will play a staple of originals made popular during their days at the Alrosa Villa along with a mix of covers from '80s hair bands. Not your average bunch of musicians, you'll have to catch them as they pull off Rush, Journey, Tesla and Guns N Roses in a way few other bands can. Rumor has it this may be one of their last shows, so make sure to catch them while you can. I know I will be there. Not only do they always put on a great show but I met my future ex-wife Kim at one of their sold-out shows at the Alrosa Villa back in the day. Actually it was my first and last time working as the Armada drum tech but if I hadn't gotten fired before showtime Kim and I never would have hooked up. She liked that I knew drummers and was hoping I could get her back stage. She used to be so much fun back then and she looked so sexy in her Triumph Sport of Kings T-shirt. If I had known how she had gotten the shirt from Gil Moore in the first place I probably wouldn't have proposed so soon but I was young, dumb and full of.....ANYWAY... Doors open at 7pm and special guest No Direction starts at 8 pm. Make sure to get there early as Armada promptly takes the stage at 9 pm.
Look for more Pencilstorm appearances in the upcoming weeks! See ya at the gigs and buy me beer why don't you? - Hassler is out.