I recently moved back to Lansdale (gracias allah) and have slowly been getting my shit unpacked and all. i had put this flyer in a frame a while back and found it in a box a couple days ago and thought i should do a post on it. It wasn't until i was on my way home from work this morning that i remembered that the Strikeback set from this show was recorded. I listened to it on my way home and cracked up at most of the shit said on mic. I definitely say "faggot" like 50 times and it gives me douche chills. anyway, here it goes from my best recollections:
I'm pretty sure Gavlick got arrested at this show, or almost arrested, because there is mention of it during the strikeback set. It was his 21st birthday that night, which is insane to think about because he just had his 30th birthday show in philly last week. crazy. I don't recall anything special about the Inane set, although i'm sure it was awesome as their shows always were. Leavenworth played second and it was a fun set. i remember this was when Josh Buck was living with us and he brought a new style of moshing to this show. kids dug it, there were no problems. it was cool. The picture of buckley/keevil that is one the back of Leavenworth's What Lies Ahead EP was taken at this show. I believe you can see Evan from XIII PFP/Forever I Burn/Cetus/Morbid Entre in the background post-weight-loss but pre-hair-cut. ha.
I have a video of the leavenworth and strikeback sets somewhere. the Strikeback set was awesome at this show. It was Scott "whoodle" Mclellan's last show with the band and a lot of friends from all over PA/NJ/DE came out to see him off. This was a time when a lot of us rolled really thick with people from AC and Wilmington and what not. some people were bound by such letters as DGC and numbers as 609, but that was never my thing. If there's one thing that could be said about us back in these days it is definitely that we rolled hard. Almost all the crazy stories i have of getting jumped/fighting/destroying shit/causing problems were from back in this era and it was a time that makes me smile. Politically, things were pretty cool back then in the hardcore scene. Little beef existed and when things went down, it was handled. the end. i'll leave it at that.
The Minor Times played after us and were kind of the odd man out on this lineup, but being a lansdale show, they fit in just fine. This was one of the first shows that they played with Matt Leo on bass after they kicked Justin Lebarge out. I love Justin, it's been a while since i've seen him. Hope he's doing well. This was around the time that they started using more theatrics in their live show i believe. Lights/TV monitors/etc... These are things that made TMT one of the most unique bands to catch live. I missed their last few shows they played locally because i was always on tour, but the last time i recall seeing them was at the Troc balcony with Doomriders and Disfear i think. i might be wrong about that. either way, this was a good show for the Minor Times as i recall.
How It Ends played last and this was when they still had Ross singing. I'm not sure who all was playing for the band at this time. It was before i was in the band and before Todd returned to the mic for them, so they were playing stuff exclusively from the first 3-song demo/So It Shall Be LP. Their shows were slightly awkward back then because their sound was way more Sepultura-sounding than Dysphoria was, which is what the members had left off from. This is years before bands like Xibalba would take that same sound and ride the hype train with it all around the world. Weird how that sort of thing works. I remember very little else about this show and keep mixing up memories of the HIE set with their set at the 100 demons/ALOL/Palehorse show that happened about a year or so after. I remember moshing for HIE in a tux at one of those shows. there's pictures somewhere. that 100 demons show was sick. i need to find a flyer for this and do a write up. but yeah, this was a cool show with a lansdale-exclusive lineup that was stacked to say the least. hopefully 2013 will bring more to this blog and shit. i'm tired.
