Here is a blog entry that is not just a “yo- come see me this weekend” type thing.

A few days before Musink I was fortunate enough to see the Murder City Devils on one of the few shows they played on this tour. I remember seeing them on their very last tour and that was awesome. That was before I was “Joanna Angel”… I was in college…  I think it was in 2001…maybe. I don’t remember what year it was but I do remember the show being awesome, and this show was just as awesome. They are just as awesome as they always were. They are a true punk band. I hate it when I go to reunion shows for bands and they spend half the show talking about how great it is to be back together and they appreciate all their fans and how it has been a rough voyage and all that crap. It’s so annoying. The Murder City Devils did not do that. They just got on stage and fucking played, and went home.They didn’t try to invoke tears our of anyone’s eyes. It was also very nice to see a band that packed the place out, who tuned their own instruments. It seems like once every band can draw more than 500 people somewhere someone who is not them comes on the stage before they play and gets everything ready. They got on stage and tuned their guitars and shit right before they played so it was not some kind of dramatic entrance. It really reminded me of the way every show used to be that I went to. *Sigh*

I will admit- I felt a but sell-out ish because everyone there wore cargo pants and hoodies with patches on them and converse sneakers. I don’t really dress like that at all anymore. I do like to wear hoodies…. but I wore big leather boots over my tight jeans. And my tee-shirt was this blue shirt from Forever 21. Is Forever 21 punk? I sure hope so because it really is a spectacular store. Oh whatever. Who cares. Nova is staying here and she is really good at sewing. Maybe I will have her sew some patches on the back of some of my stripper clothes, or something.

Anyways, I tried to take some photos of them while they played and it didn’t quite work. So all I have is this…

They really are some stellar band photos…. I should submit them to Rolling Stone… right?

xoxo