July 5, 2008- Life or Death, Xibalba, Masterpiece, Colossus

We met up at Pat's house before this show and loaded our gear into the van. We all finally saw Pat's room and it was everything we ever hoped it would be. We also met the guys from Colossus there. They spent the night at Luke's house. After watching some show about Anacondas we headed up to Riverside. When we got there we checked out the venue and then walked down to Farmer Boys to get some grub. Some homeless lady asked if we were brothers, I told her we were and then told her that Jimmy's name was Franken. The venue was on the second floor of a building and there were some steep ass stairs to climb into this place. It was also between a gay bar and a coffee house, I saw a vampire hanging with a juggalo at the coffee house. Colossus played first and there wasn't that many people in there to see them. I thought they were awesome and that the first song they played, which was a new one, was the best one. We played next and I think we did a pretty good job. There were some moshers there who were ninja kicking into each other. Noah from Wages of War was there so that was pretty cool. Xibalba played after us and it was fucking heavy. Nate's voice was probably the heaviest shit I've ever heard. A friend of the band kept pulling their basketball shorts down, they didn't look amused. Life or Death played last and it was pretty heavy. Unfortunately me and Mike started discussing band biz and missed half of their set, which included a Buried Alive cover...bummer. Overall the show was fun despite the lack of people there.

What Life Is was supposed to play this show, but they didn't. The promoter told me that they wanted to get their friends' bands on the show but he told them the venue wasn't down for that. Then they wanted to just get a bunch of their friends in for free but he wasn't having it. So they said fuck it, lit fireworks outside of the place, then left the show without playing. I think that was a pretty shit move considering there was a touring band on the show.