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Friday night they had a showing of High and Dry for the first time since the Club Congress 20th anniversary celebration back in September. I missed it that time around. The Screening Room over on Congress was full of people who had been scenesters. This made the showing more like an irreverent slide show with some slightly drunk friends. People felt the need to comment and react.

For example:

The guys from Johnny Sevin talked about their early shows at Tumbleweeds, a bar that hosted both punks and bikers. One guy talked about how the band wore make up and had weird hair, and the bikers thought that they were probably homosexual. A guy two rows behind me said "You were!"

The guys from Thai Pink/Black Supersuckers/Supersuckers described how they had to drop "Black" from their name (probably for the similar reasons that they had to ditch the moniker "Thai Pink"). A row behind me: Rachel Sharp, whose complaints about the name "Black Supersuckers" when they were booked in the cellar back in 1990 probably led them to name change. Rachel shouted "That was me!"

They showed a bit from the Sidewinders video for "Witchdoctor," a Hip Clip of the Week on MTV way back when. When David Slutes appeared on the screen with all that overly done blonde hair do and those shorts that just screamed "1989," the whole audience laughed.

Also making an appearance: Luke "Grey Balloon" Knipe. He stumbled around for a bit, and apparently became angry at something and left in a huff after some undetermined fraction of the movie.

So, Toubassi, no Fells? No Lonely Trojans? No Host? What is up with that?


Hasta la proxima. Do zobaczenia.