I love Minneapolis!!!
That city fucking rocks ass, I really liked it there, it's got a great vibe to it, lots of brick buildings and charecter. We were rocking the Terminal bar yesterday in Minneapolis. After strolling around Uptown getting more CD's and what not we headed to the venue. As a side note, I got Against Me's first CD, which is fabulous, Jawbreaker's "24 hour Revenge Therapy" which kicks major ass, and I had to rebuy my copy of the first Gun Club CD, which is one of my favorites. Anyways, from talking to a number of barfly's at The Terminal I found out that it has been around for over 75 years, is still family owned, and is the olding running liqour liscence in the county. The bar is a total dive bar, mainly for older people during the day and rockers at night. More than a few people went out of their way to tell us their unfavorable opinion about the recent smoking ban in bars for the county.
I don't remember the first bands name, but they described themselves as Incubus meets Ben Folds Five. They were nice and left after they got done playing. We went on next and played excellent, people really liked it and were actually listening. I mean, I know it sounds easy, but when everyone in the bar, even the people in the way back, are facing you and activlly engaged in the music it's a triumph. It was great that people just wanted to hear you, not treat you as background music to their drunken evening. People were very supportive and bought some merch. The next band doesn't have a name yet, but right now they're called The Judy Priests and they were amazing. It was their first show, but they were really good. They were 3/4ths female and kind of a mix between rock with a little punk and some killer tamborine action, we really enjoyed them!!!
We hung out for awhile, chatting behind the bar with some very sweet locals and some people who were at the club next door just on the other side of a fence. A very cool guy named Patrick didn't have cash, but wanted to support us, so he offered to put some gas in our tank, which we gladly took him up on. Before we left Nova distributed some sparklers and everyone made shapes and got goofy over the sparklers.
Background info: On the way to Madison, we had stopped at a firework shop, of which there are many by the way!! Everything in the store was buy one get one free and we gladly stuffed our bags. Nova mainly went for the metal sparklers and black cats and I went for the jumping jacks, bottle rockets and we both were heavy handed towards the roman candles. We told the shop owner we were in a band and he gave us over $60 worth of free fireworks, he was a rad guy, a little creepy, but cool. We dished him out a CD and t-shirt for the genorosity.
Back to Minneapolis: So we got some gas, food, and headed back to Casey's brother in law's house to crash. He's a cool guy and very cool for letting us crash in his place, he had a huge air mattress set up for us and was very sweet. Nova and I stayed up until 4AM watching a DVD about the making on "Nevermind" by Nirvana. A really cool DVD, I'm not the hugest Nirvana fan, but it was great to see the whole process and also it's got me thinking about getting a deep metal snare!!! Like I said Minneapolis is the place to be and hopefully we return very soon,

Matt