Feb 22, 2008- Masterpiece, A Better Hope Foundation, Joyful Sounds, Renounce

This show started off with a potluck, me and Wade got there a little late but that didn't really matter because when we got there and met up with Jimmy, I ate almost a full pizza myself and then some cookies and some other random shit. I also threw some cookies at Jimmy and he was trying to throw chips into his own mouth.

To fully understand this show you will have to lock yourself in a room the size of a walk in closet and shove 50 other kids in there that stink and are throwing red bull into each others faces. This show was probably the wildest one we have ever played.

The first band that played was called Renounced and it was a 3 piece band with members of Joyful Sounds. They were a fast/thrashy band and they sounded ok but then I had to go outside so I could set up the merch for Masterpiece from the trunk of my Nissan Sentra.

Joyful Sounds played next and Kenny had a shark goggle mask on and a bunch of shit written on him including "Shark Attack" written on his chest.. There was a lot of crowd/stage banter and inside jokes which ruled because almost everyone at the show was friends. They covered SSD and Chain of Strength. There was plenty of moshing and diving and that whole set ruled.

A Better Hope Foundation was up next and their set was fucking wild. Also during their set 2 girls from Red Bull showed up and looked confused as fuck as kids were diving onto each other and acting like idiots. They passed out a ton of free Red Bull and that ended up just getting dumped into Kenny's mouth.

We were the last band to play and that always feel weird to me. After we played our intro Mike's amp exploded into 1,000 pieces and we had to borrow Eric's head from ABHF . Finally after getting that all sorted out we played "Living Legend", our new straight edge song. Danny Fresh was there and there was singing along going on but overall the first couple songs of our set seemed to be lacking crowd reaction. I had said that the first person to jump off of the 12 foot wall would get a free shirt. We started another song and then all of a sudden Wade jumped off stage and moshed everyone with his guitar and then that incited a riot.


Next thing you know some kid named Shaun climbs the wall, moshes on it, puts a hole through the roof and then did a 12 foot stage dive. It was one of the best things I have ever seen. Then for some reason everyone started moshing like it was a cross between an ECW match and fucking Ozzfest. I even said before one of the songs, "Mosh like this next song was written by Sepultara." There were dudes straight kneeing each other in the head, people spinning each other around while on top of their shoulders in a fireman's carry. It was like a warzone. Dude's were throwing water all over each other and I loved every second of it.


After the show we packed everything up, sold some merch and then called it a night, but not before that kid Kenny got a whole tray of random sloppy ass shit from the potluck dumped into his mouth/face. This was a fucking wild show. We all hit up Denny's after and then made the drive back down to San Diego.All photos were taken by Brandon T. except for the Denny's Jam, that was by me with my bomb ass iPhone.