A DREAM COME TRUE!!
I LOVE MY BAND!!!!!!!!
wow, what an incredible day, definately the best of my life. The whole band plus gbaby(which i guess he counts also as band, but for thos eof you who dont know that, him too) came to my house early this mornin for just a good peptalk/psyche up for the big day. We loaded some eqipment into the car, ate some bagels and left by 1130 for the Stone Pony in Asbury Park. We went in 3 cars and got to the venue first at aorund 12. We unloaded and met up with elmo, the cool venue guy who was runnin our stage outside in this rele big courtyard type thing. So we spoke to him found out what the deal was and said we had gotten moved to a later time(which wa spretty cool) but to birng all our equipment to the outside backstage area. so we go outside and HOLYSHIT....the stage, o that stage. IT WAS BEASTLY...so fuckin big, and we were getting ready to play on it, WOW....
so we bring our stuff over, slowly more bands arrive, including Lovedrug(Days Away was rnnning an hr late). O yea we got our nice amps all set up my drums se tup on the side all ready to go and all of a sudden we see these bands bringin their equipment over and it just put our little babies to shame haha...they were so big. W/e we knew it didnt make much of a difference and ecided to go check out the place. Chris had arrived too and him and gbaby helped get everything worked out. So for awhile we justw atched he other bands come and unload. We were told we could set up our merch at one of the empty bars in the back of the courtyard. So we do, and set up a nice dispaly of our stuff. Days Away finally arrived and i made complete ass of myself by pretty much confessing my love to how amaazing a band they were haha, but i didnt care. Then me and kantor went to go sort out our ticket sales and stuff with Kyle, the owner dude. so we ended up makin $800 for cancer whihc was rele rele cool, and also ended up gettin $140 just for playin the show, which was nice bnous, since we didnt think we were gonna get ne money....
we went outside the venue and alreayd saw all our frined beigining to show up, which was pretty cool. Me, kantor, klov, rog, and chris ended up walkin down to the other end of boardwalk to Ho Jo's. get some shitty quality food, and chris being the crazy kid he is, asks for a corona, the guy gives it to him, with just a simple "are u 21" and chris saying..."ummm, yea". haha...and kantor ended up getting a coke, but the guy thoought he wanted rum in it so we were gettin all these drink that we didnt ask for hhaa, pretty funny. We got our food, chris got some more beer, than we walked back the venue. We got back and eveyrone was alreayd inside, and the first band had started. I walk into the courtyard and see everyone wearing our shirt,s it was pretty fuckin cool lol. Everyone just kept grabbing me in this and that direction and it bein so hot out got me all crazy and sweaty haha. So overwhelming but at the same time it felt so cool. So we waited aorund, spoke to some people and got ready for our turn on stage....
After the first 2 bands it was ifnally our turn, and it seemed like everyone in the place was there for us, and surprisingly, they were haha. It was crazy, everyone crowded in forn tof the stage while we set up the stage and just kept cheeerin. We even got a good luck form all the guys in days way whihc was rele cool, sondiering they knew how big of a first show this was. we had our share of techinical problems at the beginning but finally got everything together and we started. I started my drum beat and went rite into the first song....only problem was, i could not hear ne of the other people in my band, all i haerd was the thump form my bass drum...UH OH...NOT GOOD!, kinda got freaked out cuz it was hard for me to keep my timitng with everyone else but tried my hardest to follow along. We played pretty well, and it was awesome to see everyone getting into it. the coolest part....seing both members of lovedrug and even Days Away rele rockin out and enjoyin us. Like full on feelin our music, it was just so icnreidble. neway, we get to our last song, and i miss my cue due to thelack of sound in ym speaker, w/e we pull together...next choruses i totally cant hear them and start frekain out, which causes me to froget how the song goes, idk y, but i do, and i end up skipping awhole seoncd half, the band caught on tho to MY big mistake and made it not to noticable. IN the end(of our somewhat short set) we managed to pull together and played way better than we couldve ever imagined. Getting off stage and just havin everyone congratulate u and actually say they enjoy the music was the most increibdle feeling. we even got big comliments fomr the bigger bands which mad eus feel so....special?? haha...yea it was just amaainzg....
so after us people started ot leave....all of u who did that r reading this, smack ureselves 10 times on each cheek. How dare you not stay for Lovedrug or Days Away, WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKIN, haha. yea there was that one scremo(decently good) band form cali inbetween us and lovedrug, but u couldve stuck it out haha. neway lovedrug came on and there was barely ne one left, so all like 20 of us that were, brought some chairs rite inf ornt of the stage and waited for them to start. The played a pretty decent set but still sounded amazing. Such a good band and nice guys...rele enjoyed it. Then....ooo i love this band so much, it not even funny, DAYS AWAY....
they se tup, did a lot of teases in their little soundcheck, and thens tarted...by far the best time ive seen them, still like 20 people there so it felt like we were geting our own private show, played a few songs off the lsdep and then a bunch of new ones...all incrdible. then the song that has become the song of all songs for me....T KLEINS DECLINE....
WWWWWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!
10 minutes of pure musical greatness...simply undescribable. Just watching this band play was such a cool experience and to hear this song just added so much to my day...after them i got some days away/lovedrug merch, we packed up our shirts, gave one to the guitarist of days away to have(we just wanted to give hjim one lol) and left. the band, our fmailies, g bay, and chris all met at Franky Feds for some crazy Raegan family bonding time, hahaha...o what a night. Got to watch some of the show on chris camera and surprised to see how well everything rele did turn out.
So what i wanna say is THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU! to anyone that came to the show, supported our music, and evn bought a shirt. You dont know how memorable this day will be for all of us and its gonna be the first of many over the next yr, and who knows, maybe even longer. but yea, it meant so much to have so much fmaily and friends come, you made this day for us and we cant thank you more....gbaby, we couldnt have done half of the stuff today without ure help, whther it was loading/unloading equipment, selling our merch, or just singing along, u r our fuckin best fan, and the 5th member of the band haha, thnx so much dude, ur awesome...Dave mike and mike, what an incredible first show experience. you guys r fuckin the best band members and frinds i could ever have. We finally moved on to the next step of this crazy phase of our lives, its time to have fun, lets enjoy it...
RAEGAN LOVES YOU!!
wow, what an incredible day, definately the best of my life. The whole band plus gbaby(which i guess he counts also as band, but for thos eof you who dont know that, him too) came to my house early this mornin for just a good peptalk/psyche up for the big day. We loaded some eqipment into the car, ate some bagels and left by 1130 for the Stone Pony in Asbury Park. We went in 3 cars and got to the venue first at aorund 12. We unloaded and met up with elmo, the cool venue guy who was runnin our stage outside in this rele big courtyard type thing. So we spoke to him found out what the deal was and said we had gotten moved to a later time(which wa spretty cool) but to birng all our equipment to the outside backstage area. so we go outside and HOLYSHIT....the stage, o that stage. IT WAS BEASTLY...so fuckin big, and we were getting ready to play on it, WOW....
so we bring our stuff over, slowly more bands arrive, including Lovedrug(Days Away was rnnning an hr late). O yea we got our nice amps all set up my drums se tup on the side all ready to go and all of a sudden we see these bands bringin their equipment over and it just put our little babies to shame haha...they were so big. W/e we knew it didnt make much of a difference and ecided to go check out the place. Chris had arrived too and him and gbaby helped get everything worked out. So for awhile we justw atched he other bands come and unload. We were told we could set up our merch at one of the empty bars in the back of the courtyard. So we do, and set up a nice dispaly of our stuff. Days Away finally arrived and i made complete ass of myself by pretty much confessing my love to how amaazing a band they were haha, but i didnt care. Then me and kantor went to go sort out our ticket sales and stuff with Kyle, the owner dude. so we ended up makin $800 for cancer whihc was rele rele cool, and also ended up gettin $140 just for playin the show, which was nice bnous, since we didnt think we were gonna get ne money....
we went outside the venue and alreayd saw all our frined beigining to show up, which was pretty cool. Me, kantor, klov, rog, and chris ended up walkin down to the other end of boardwalk to Ho Jo's. get some shitty quality food, and chris being the crazy kid he is, asks for a corona, the guy gives it to him, with just a simple "are u 21" and chris saying..."ummm, yea". haha...and kantor ended up getting a coke, but the guy thoought he wanted rum in it so we were gettin all these drink that we didnt ask for hhaa, pretty funny. We got our food, chris got some more beer, than we walked back the venue. We got back and eveyrone was alreayd inside, and the first band had started. I walk into the courtyard and see everyone wearing our shirt,s it was pretty fuckin cool lol. Everyone just kept grabbing me in this and that direction and it bein so hot out got me all crazy and sweaty haha. So overwhelming but at the same time it felt so cool. So we waited aorund, spoke to some people and got ready for our turn on stage....
After the first 2 bands it was ifnally our turn, and it seemed like everyone in the place was there for us, and surprisingly, they were haha. It was crazy, everyone crowded in forn tof the stage while we set up the stage and just kept cheeerin. We even got a good luck form all the guys in days way whihc was rele cool, sondiering they knew how big of a first show this was. we had our share of techinical problems at the beginning but finally got everything together and we started. I started my drum beat and went rite into the first song....only problem was, i could not hear ne of the other people in my band, all i haerd was the thump form my bass drum...UH OH...NOT GOOD!, kinda got freaked out cuz it was hard for me to keep my timitng with everyone else but tried my hardest to follow along. We played pretty well, and it was awesome to see everyone getting into it. the coolest part....seing both members of lovedrug and even Days Away rele rockin out and enjoyin us. Like full on feelin our music, it was just so icnreidble. neway, we get to our last song, and i miss my cue due to thelack of sound in ym speaker, w/e we pull together...next choruses i totally cant hear them and start frekain out, which causes me to froget how the song goes, idk y, but i do, and i end up skipping awhole seoncd half, the band caught on tho to MY big mistake and made it not to noticable. IN the end(of our somewhat short set) we managed to pull together and played way better than we couldve ever imagined. Getting off stage and just havin everyone congratulate u and actually say they enjoy the music was the most increibdle feeling. we even got big comliments fomr the bigger bands which mad eus feel so....special?? haha...yea it was just amaainzg....
so after us people started ot leave....all of u who did that r reading this, smack ureselves 10 times on each cheek. How dare you not stay for Lovedrug or Days Away, WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKIN, haha. yea there was that one scremo(decently good) band form cali inbetween us and lovedrug, but u couldve stuck it out haha. neway lovedrug came on and there was barely ne one left, so all like 20 of us that were, brought some chairs rite inf ornt of the stage and waited for them to start. The played a pretty decent set but still sounded amazing. Such a good band and nice guys...rele enjoyed it. Then....ooo i love this band so much, it not even funny, DAYS AWAY....
they se tup, did a lot of teases in their little soundcheck, and thens tarted...by far the best time ive seen them, still like 20 people there so it felt like we were geting our own private show, played a few songs off the lsdep and then a bunch of new ones...all incrdible. then the song that has become the song of all songs for me....T KLEINS DECLINE....
WWWWWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!
10 minutes of pure musical greatness...simply undescribable. Just watching this band play was such a cool experience and to hear this song just added so much to my day...after them i got some days away/lovedrug merch, we packed up our shirts, gave one to the guitarist of days away to have(we just wanted to give hjim one lol) and left. the band, our fmailies, g bay, and chris all met at Franky Feds for some crazy Raegan family bonding time, hahaha...o what a night. Got to watch some of the show on chris camera and surprised to see how well everything rele did turn out.
So what i wanna say is THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU!THANK YOU! to anyone that came to the show, supported our music, and evn bought a shirt. You dont know how memorable this day will be for all of us and its gonna be the first of many over the next yr, and who knows, maybe even longer. but yea, it meant so much to have so much fmaily and friends come, you made this day for us and we cant thank you more....gbaby, we couldnt have done half of the stuff today without ure help, whther it was loading/unloading equipment, selling our merch, or just singing along, u r our fuckin best fan, and the 5th member of the band haha, thnx so much dude, ur awesome...Dave mike and mike, what an incredible first show experience. you guys r fuckin the best band members and frinds i could ever have. We finally moved on to the next step of this crazy phase of our lives, its time to have fun, lets enjoy it...
RAEGAN LOVES YOU!!