Weekend in Western Illinois
Lyrics
Banter
- Can I tell you a shameful story? I might have told it to you before. I don't have an awesome memory. The night that Full Force Galesburg came out, it was released, I happened to be in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I was playing like a fourteen song showcase. Not the breeders, but the Kin Deal 5000 [?] were playing that night. They had their own dressing room and the rest of us had to share one. But that was cool, that was fine, I was alright, I was happy to be in a town that I had never been in before. but I went into the Tower Records next door to the club, and I grabbed the Tower Pulse, the magazine that Tower had, back when there was Tower, and a dude, the record had come out that day, and I've been waiting awhile to have people hear the record, I was very excited. Back in the day, let me tell you young cats and everybody who's in bands, don't do this. Don't, on the day your record comes out, don't go combing through all the press to see what people say about it, 'cause some people aren't gonna like it. That's just reality. If you think everyone's gonna love your record when it comes out, then you're like, the narcissist we were talking about earlier. That's not the case. People have their own opinions. So it's the day it comes out, I'm playing a show, I'm in a town I've never been in before, I pick up the Tower Pulse... Man. Did the dude in the tower pulse hate Full Force Galesburg. He hated the shit outta that record. [crowd boos this guy, correctly] He speent a good long while making sure that I and anybody else reading it understood how much he hated that record. And at that time, I was still fairly young, and I hadn't figured out the whole concept of, well, people have different opinions and that's cool, so I was really mad. I was really mad, and I played like, a 20 minute set, as fast as I possibly could, I think I tried to kill this guy who wasn't even in the room. (2015-04-23 - Mr. Smalls, Millvale)
Live Performances
"corn" for "grass" 2015-04-23