This was the first show my one band, Nessiteras, ever played. I sang for the band so it was my first time behind the mic without a trombone in my hands so i remember being so nervous it wasn't even funny. We opened this show and i remember walking up to my band and being like "alright let's do this" and realized there was no mic. Jay Grubb, who is one of my oldest and dearest friends, set up the show...and didn't get a PA. hahaha. To be fair i'm not sure if it was that he forgot or the venue said we could use their stuff and nobody thought of bringing mics/cables. either way, The DJ dude that had his little booth in the corner hooked it up though and we used the house speakers as a PA. Nessiteras was what you could call a "rap-core" band, and yes, we were beyond embarrassing.
Let's start out with the fact that Buckley (whom went on to play in Leavenworth, Cetus, Drop Anchor and many others) was playing through his crate half stack and crate head. If i remember correctly he had spiked blonde hair at the time too. Kevin Wells, our bassist, was probably adorned in several hemp necklaces and jncos with some sort of hawaiian shirt. Jason Fine was drumming for the band. He went on to play for leavenworth and cetus for some time and is now married and has a really cute dog(s). He had the most ridiculous drum kit ever (DW custom i believe) with a ton of cymbals and shit. looking back on it we were totally the late 90s equivalent to the bands that open shows today and have full road cases and all. haha. at least Jason was. the rest of us were sort of ripped out of a page of revolver magazine. I think i was wearing my chine shirt with Lee jeans cut off at the bottom and spray-painted airwalks. I'm fairly certain i had gel in my hair as well, parted in the middle of course. anyway, jay grubb moshed for us and then some of our other friends did and i felt like the coolest person alive.
I'm pretty sure nutbox played next and i literally don't remember our set. it's kind of like i'm an idiot. Manhunt played and i have a hard time differentiating between times i saw them. Every time we saw them play we pretty much just made fun of them. I felt terrible about it but i was just part of a crowd of immature kids (keep in mind i was making fun of someone after rapping in airwalks). we were cool with those guys (and girl) and watched them go on to form Fall River, which was worlds better as a band. John Collier (sp?) was their guitar player and then he drummed in Fall River i think. he was a really good dude. we had kind of a falling out after the borough hall brawl but i'm pretty sure he is a teacher or something now. the original drummer of Manhunt worked at the petstore i've gone to my whole life and he used to hook me up with crickets. Alex from the Curve Shooters worked their too. Me and the drummer definitely had a conversation about how we should start blowing up McDonalds and shit. hahaha.
I think this may have been the record release show for Charlie Brown Gets a Valentine (please correct me if i'm wrong). The record came with crayons and a black and white cover that you could color yourself, hahaha. Lansdale's own Spoiled Records put it out and Schwa never lacked in innovation. Charlie Brown Gets a Valentine was from maryland and they were one of several bands that had a second (or maybe even primary) home in Lansdale. They had a side band called Politically Erect that played Scott McClellan's show at the Moose in Lansdale (now 3rd and Walnut) in the fall of '98. At that point in time we definitely called scott "Satan" and he had shoulder-length hair. yo, we all sucked. Scott and I went vegan around the same time, and it was awesome having a friend to do that with, cause at that point it wasn't quite that accepted in our circle of friends. Scott is doing the electric at Coldcuts Merch LLC and it's awesome that he's engaged and has a great dog that can pull trains and shit.
I don't remember the public's set or inkling's set because those are 2 bands that i saw so many goddamned times that they all bled together. *EDIT* the unsuspecting publics didn't play, but the wiseacres did* All in all my memory has sort of failed me this time because i can pretty much only remember the Nessiteras set. Believe it or not, I actually stopped myself from getting into completely off track stories and tried to keep it as close to this show as possible. my mind runs and shit, i'm an idiot. It's a bummer that Lansdale never really had a skatepark. we had that set of ramps or whatever you want to call them behind the North Penn YMCA but that shit was barely worth going to, which is probably why it failed.
i still to this day have a "nessiteras: lansdale hardcore" sticker on my parent's mailbox.
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