Derek J. Barbee
11/2/98

Halloween Concert

For Halloween, our garage band of Nate, Josh and I got a gig at an in-crowd person's party. Wow!

At the in-crowd dude's (Darren) house there's this enormous platform/stage thingie behind the house, embedded in the ground. That's where we played. What the doink this was doing in his backyard, I do not know. There was this big bar for serving food and drinks and a roof that a bunch of kids climbed on. And most importantly: a pit where everybody moshed in. Seriously! They moshed on some of our songs. We did the live version of Polly, which was the main one. They moshed to Song Two, Welcome to Paradise, The Song (which was ours), Brain Stew, Dammit, Longview and a bunch of others. We played a couple Nirvana and Green Day songs mainly. It was fun. We played until 10:30, which was okay, because soon the cops would have come and told us to shut up.

At the edge of the platform was this bowl of candy that was for anybody to take. After one song Nate just looked down at it and goes: "Huh. Donations." Then he takes the whole thing and dumps it into his bass guitar case.

There were at least seven guitars there, and a lot of strings. After we played consecutively El Nino, our song, and Brain Stew, a Green Day Song (we made them run into each other. When one ended, the other started), Josh announced into the microphone: "Okay. I am now playing a 4-string guitar." He had broken two strings in the course of the songs.

Nate stuck the list of songs we could play into the tree by the stage with a knife. He was holding the paper and looking around, then he sees the knife and the tree. I think the knife was a Halloween Decoration, but oh, well.

*thack* "There we go."

Through the whole time it was damp with a few drops occasionally, and the paper was soaked at the end. A big tree was over the drumset though, so I was fine (Heheh). Josh was saying that as soon as someone gets electrocuted, then we'd stop. I'm like: "You first." He scowled and humphed. "Just because you don't have anything electric . . ."

At the end of one of the songs Nate and I were standing at the front of the platform and we start to jump like in a mosh pit and then stop. "Let's see that again!" We reverse and do it again. "Let's see that again!" It was from some movie, I think, but neither of us knew what one.

We took a break when the food was ready, and Nate threw a hot dog at someone. I just took one off the grill and ate it. Who needs a bun?

Then we eventually got rained out. Then we fooled around inside. The movie "It" was on. Disgusting movie. But then something else came on and we were watching, about 60 kids in one room. Jason was moving around and got in front of the TV. Nate and I were yelling at him and Nate finally bounced a tootsie roll off his head. "Move!"

Will and Alison (boyfriend and girlfriend) were sorta of hugging and kissing and they got in front of the TV. I grabbed a broom next to me and stretched it over a bunch of kids' heads and softly tapped Will on the shoulder. He turns around and finds a broom handle in his face. Nate's like: "Go screw her over in the other room!" Josh raises his hand: "Can I watch?"

And for the whole thing we dyed our hair. I had all these green streaks and flashes in my hair, Frank's head was just covered in green, Josh dyed his bangs green and the back of his head red, and Nate had red and green everywhere. It was fun! Josh got a bunch of black splotches on his arms and neck and said he was an alien. Frank was death and I was a demon. Nate was just there.

At the beginning of the party, Antanacio, an attitude person that's really weird was putting makeup on Garrett (He and Darren went as the guys from Insane Clown Possey) and Nate and I were bugging him. Nate held the hair spray up to the back of Antanacio's head and quickly hid it when he turned around. Finally he shoved us both out to slam into the wall and trip over a couch. We were sitting there when Adrian came up and looked down at us. She's all: "What's going on in there?" Nate points and says: "There's two men in the bathroom." She just sarted cracking up and flung open the door. She's all laughing and yelling: "You GUYS! I never knew! Get out of there!"

But all in all, it was fun. It was neat that us, the musicians, got to mingle with the rest of the crowd. It was mostly because we knew 'em. I wonder what will happen next Halloween.

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