GIGS

*4th of July*

This was pretty much Dan, Andy, and Eric playing beatles and other cover songs. Dan and Eric on guitar, Andy on vocals. Chris was audience.

Dj sociopath(forarmypurposes) and Dj eroc played a 4 hour concert on new years eve well into new years day. The first few hours were horrible... no one was even moving, many complaints about the volume (the setup was really sweet, loud enough to hear well outside the house. DJ sociopath(...) struggled through his first half hour, after that Dj eroc did the same. The last two hours (10-12ish) is what made the party. There was actually one point after new years (which was not celebrated by the DJs and a few of the guests for "sickof" sake)where everyone came down stairs and started dancing. The highlights were the collaboration of the two artists. The same who complained about the sound actually thought they were playing a cd the whole time. But thats what we get when here-say is our inviteeeeeees. Special thanks to angie, judY, andy, scott, (and the two dj's) for actually getting up and moving a bit to the music. more appreciation than you'll ever know.

*Dance Party Ca-na-day/Angie J's. birthday*

This party was an attempt to capture what happened last time. Both dj's were used to thier equipment, and the audience was used to the music. They accomplished more than any concert before at this party. There were more people, there was alot more dancing, there was alot more lighting. the whole thing worked out wonderfully. it was very succesful in its attempt and then some. a few new dances emerged, such as the crutch, the steering wheel, and the epileptic break dance. I believe about every single person there danced (except lindy of course), and the whole thing was just so wonderful and thats that!

*Cabaret Nights*

Cabaret night is a production put on by Grayslake Community High School, where its safe to say all of basement productions attends or attened there. The show is intended for choir kids to show off how much they developed their voices and for Mrs. white to show off (sorry mark, james, eddie, rich, but its true). Big Band Jazzy Funkestra broke that mold. Origionally Ksub5, Big Band Jazzy Funkestra and SR313 were to perform, but mrs. white only wanted 2 acts. Each act was to play right after intermission on both days. SR gave her a preview of the ambient piano stuff they were going to play, and bbjf gave a demo of a performance to the kids that were trying out. then it featured eric on guitar, chris on clarinet, andy on bass, rich on bongos, and keith on drums. the next few days a few extras were collected. this is where the band formed. james on tambourine, eric on guitar, andy on bass, rick on piano, chris on clarinet, mark and scott on trumpet, jeremy on bongos, eddie on cowbell, brad on saxaphone, and rich on vocals. hell ya.

The night was going a bit slow already. then they took the stage, i believe people were dancing and everyone was feeling it (despite it sounding like crap, but at the moment it was cool). Standing ovation, and they were off. rumors got started the next day that they were going to play again, then napoleon became right about history being lies repeated enough. they showed up the next day with a few less people and were denied. They were told there wasn't enough room, even though they forfieted SR313's act. anway, mrs. white was basically angry that we showed alot of talent and got alot of audience involvement. well at least thats how it seemed. anyway it was cool. real audio links for it too.

*Earth Stock Preview*

Mr. McMahon's environmental studies classes needed to come up with an idea that they could help the environment with. 1st hour decided on planting trees. But they needed a way to raise the money, 4th hour came up with the idea for a concert. Jeremy was in that class, and so was dan, a representive of another band. It was on, earth stock was to consist of Ksub 5, TBA, and Chane reaction. Ksub5 and TBA would put on a concert outside during lunch hours. This meant a field trip for the day for the bands, ha ha ha. They set up and were ready to go, sort of. Most of the lyrics were known. Ksub5 was going to covers by arethra franklin (respect), fine young cannibles (she drives me crazy), rage (bulls on parade), and deftones (mascara). TBA mixed with some of these. I believe tool was covered, toadies, and some other stuff. An improv set with luke johnson took place, which worked very well.

Then comes Chane reaction representatives. Rick pretty much stole dans guitar from him, and his brother stole the bass. keith being on drums... and it turned into chane reaction doing more mainstream covers... beastie boys and aerosmith. Both the real bands were very unhappy about this. the concert began 3rd hour and was soon shut down by 5th. A large group of teachers and representatives of the school came out and told them it was too loud, there were classes to pretend to teach. The day was a failure, all the songs turned out bad except for deftones, rage, tool, and the improv. But they did have 20 some complaints from teachers. this is also when the chane reaction (now known as crowd reaction) hate began. haha, payback soon though.

*Earth Stock*

It was on. TBA was to play first, Ksub5 second, crowd reaction third. Fancy shmancy P.A. equipment was rented and set up. Jeremy wore his vampire teeth, a wife beater, and tux pants. He had also put dishwashing liquid on his face in a voodo-like design so it would show up eerily white next to a black light. There were two strobe lights set up, and about four black lights. There was a projector that was hooked up to a playstation (the addition on the newer versions that plays neat designs when you play cd's) for TBA, and a video camera for Ksub5. Poor chane reaction didn't get to use it. The backround was 20 foot black backdrops with a hole in the center. This was filled by trees. There were toxic barrels in the front also with trees in each. The barrels dripped the glowing fluid which was all over Jeremy's face. Someone made a very bad picture of earth with the peace sign over it. The continents weren't even near accurate. But we still hung it up because someone wasted their time on it. TBA and Ksub5 set up the stage. crowd reaction basically set them selves up and talked about getting drunk and all that stupid crap they live for. TBA and Ksub5 were the closest thing to a concert. The shared equipment when there wasn't enough. They helped each other. TBA even called chris up on stage in the middle of thier performance to help out with "bulls on parade". Not much of the audience enjoyed TBA because it wasn't filled with the right people. There were 3 groups. The stupid preppy kids that were there because the friends that they get wasted with were there. They gave dirty looks to the first two bands because they weren't friends with them. Nothing like open minds! The other group were friends of TBA and Ksub5. They were there for the same reason, but they gave musical reviews afterwords so we figure they actually listened to what we played. The third group were the adults. Chris's dad attended, along with the many other chaperones (sp?) that were required to be there.

TBA took the stage first. They opened with "cambodia" by limp bizkit and jumped into their other covers by hardcore bands. The friends of Ksub5 and TBA reacted well. They did a good job with most of the songs, a few didn't go so well, but they weren't the worst band there. A small mosh pit formed during one of the songs.. i think it was godsmack's song... anyway they finished up eventually.

Then Ksub5 took the stage. The opened up with some very strange experimental echoing guitar noise provided by eric and samples from jeremy. The first song was "i am" or whatever its called now. The second was "Social flight" (yo), rhymed by chris and during the chorus jeremy spoke while chris sang. It worked very well for never having been practiced before. The third song was "I like to play with girls" (or whatever jeremy wants to call it), this song worked pretty well too as chris mocked the crowd of preppy kids during the verse without them even knowing it. The next song was improvised and worked, of course. A mild mosh pit developed i beleive. During this mosh pit veteran judy ran into violent o-ring travis mcghee and she fell down. They all laughed at her. But its ok because we caught it on tape and its funny because travis is an o-ring. Anyway they were coming to a close and chris stenz came on and told them that time was running out, even though it was no where near. Bastard just wanted his stupid band to play longer. He pretty much cut eric off in the closing. At one point in their setting up he almost pulled chris's (basement's chris) amp off a table by the chord because he was being an ass in his whole thing. Basement chris wanted to kick him in the neck. TBA also complained about his diquole (pronounced dick hole) attitude and treatment towards the other bands. We do have film footage from the live show, also a live tape. The tape didn't really work out too well because someone locked the sample "those who do not think... shouldn't talk", and it played the whole time. Its a cool sample and all, but not for the whole show.