Feb 24, 2008- Spring Break, Masterpiece, Vermefug

This show was at Sergio Typhoon's house or the "Brooklyn Bazaar" as it is sometimes called. The thing about this place is that when the bands play there it is like a reverse stage. You are down in a pit that is like the back porch and everyone watches you from the driveway which is above you. Its kind of hard to describe but you might be able to understand it from this photo from a previous show of ours there. At this house every show there is a party and it fucking rules. Sergio Typhoon is one of the raddest dudes alive and even though he is a total pothead he is always cool with the fact that we are a straight edge band. He has no problem talking shit to the cops and if they come to bust up his house party he will tell them that he just got home from Iraq and that its his birthday even though this dude has long hair and a beard. The shows at his house always draw the wildest and most random crowd, from hippies, to crust punks, metal kids, stoners, hardcore kids, and gangsta ass mexican dudes. Everyone gets along though.

Mother Speed and Grave Maker actually didn't play the show, so the first band to go on was VERMEFUG from NY City. These dudes looked like a cross between the crowd from a Metallica DVD and The Lost Boys. This whole band is amazing and their music was top notch. They are a straight up metal band and every song has at least one killer solo. They had song names like, "The Greatful Shred" and "Raped by Satan". They also covered "Caught in a Mosh" by Anthrax. These dudes were party animals and the singer kept saying, "We are gonna play all night loooooong!", this kind of bummed me out because even though they were awesome, the show didn't even start until 10:00pm. There was plenty of push moshing going on. They ended their set eventually and those dudes were really nice.

We played next and I had a feeling no one there was going to like us, but we still played an awesome set. Pat was there and he held it down. Following Vermefug we knew we would have to play our hardest because they were a tough act to follow. I just like the fact that we played a straight edge song to a bunch of people smoking pot and drinking. Most of our set had a hippie dude drinking wine from the bottle and moshing, awesome. Also during our set there were beach balls being thrown around. There was a little scuffle over some mosh drama and this chick smashed a beer can onto this one dude's face. Sergio did a roofie during our set, no not the date rape drug but a roof-stage dive. After our set everyone seemed pretty stoked on us and the drummer from Vermefug compared us to Cro-Mags and Madball which is probably the best thing anyone has ever said about our band.

Spring Break went on last and these dudes are pretty thrashy. There were plenty of metal heads with their arms around each others shoulders and head banging. They sounded pretty good but no one was really moshing by this time, I think people were starting to get partied out because it was already midnight.

Overall, the show was pretty wild. Parties at this place rule and if you're ever in San Diego and there happens to be a show at this house you should go because there is always something wild happening there.