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Bartended one of those Hair Nation tours tonight. Enuff Z'Nuff, Bulletboys, and Jack Russell's Great White. WOOF. Not that I expected it to be good. I expected to be a little embarrassing, honestly, but at least entertaining on the people watching front. However, Chip Z'Nuff was a close talking, overly touchy, creepy punisher, dressed up like a no-budget Jervis Tetch. Jack Russell looks really, really bad. Considering how bad off he was, I guess it's good that he's walking on his own power and actually pulled the whole show off, but damn. So rough. His band looks like he found them all at various Guitar Centers. The soundguy brought the goods between bands, though. And I made decent money for an easy night.

Shayna's Bolt Thrower shirt. Goddamn.

His tan might give you cancer. Dude looks radioactive.

Haha! It's not completely out of the realm for them, though. If you've ever heard their song "Birds," that was probably going to be the gist of it, just with a lot more improvisation and soloing. Bill Stevenson has also done a few interviews talking about being really into the era of jazz from Miles' Four and More through Mahavishnu's Birds of Fire.

There was talk of an instrumental ALL record around the early 2000's. It was supposed to be ALL meets Mahavishnu Orchestra with a Miles Davis' Second Great Quintet influence on the songwriting. I was REALLY REALLY stoked for it, but for a lot of reasons, it never came together. Supposedly, some stuff was tracked, but it'll likely never see the light of day. Fugazi's sessions with Steve Albini for the In On the Killtaker were a minor legend for a while, but that's easily available despite never being officially released. It's cool to hear, but I can see why they shelved it. Albini's approach doesn't really work for Fugazi and the songs weren't fully formed yet.

This. I went to the show in Detroit a couple weekends ago and that was the first thing that stood out to me: The heels wrestled like heels. There were hardly any big spots in the first half of the show, but the matches got heat and the character work was over. It was such a simple, stripped down approach that I wish I saw more of. Then, towards the end of the show, when the big spots happened, it seemed they got more of a reaction. That show RULED. The only thing that stopped it from being more fun than the last time they came through was the fact that I was dead tired from not getting enough sleep the night before. I'm not used to matinees and I sleep in too late.

Ha! Yeah. I was like "Pipe Dream? Ooookay." I'm at the very tail end of Arkham Knight and have been playing the crap out of it. There are a lot of similarities, but it's actually a big adjustment switching over to Spider-Man. I've been getting my ass kicked a lot, which I didnt really see coming. Web swinging is the damn truth. Especially at night.

The game store down the street from me put their Spider-Man stock up for sale a day early. Download has about thirty minutes left. I'll be postin' later.

I'm going to the Detroit show on Sunday. The last time they came through smoked the ROH War of the Worlds show.

Kyle O'Reilly trying to figure out a new chord on his belt guitar during the UE promo got a damn good chuckle outta me. This episode moved a lot of things forward and did it so efficiently. There's zero fat on these episodes lately.

Or the buildup for Bellator 174: Punk vs Cabana, Podcast vs Punk Promises to Knock It the Fuck Off.

Yeah, lawyer up, you bettah... Gonna have that song stuck in my head the rest of the day now.

Me and a buddy of mine still drop "Thank you, Cleric" on the reg. SUMMON ALL YOUR LIFE FORCE!

That shirt RULES. Love the fact that Shayna doesn't wear her own merch.