I went to the Gilroy gaslighter with Christina tonight to see Justin Florence play (He's in a band called My Former Self)....and They rocked. There were four bands. The first one, Varsity Heroes, kinda sucked. The second, Novice, were good and all, great bass player, seemed like a good guitarist, good vocals....but they were saying they just got together and they don't really have any songs, so they just played a buncha weird stuff including a red hot chili peppers cover. Next up was Tragedy Andy, which I've heard of from somewhere...they were pretty good. Good bass, good guitar, alright vocals but it seemed to be because of stupid mic problems. Last up was My Former Self. They definately saved the best for last. They were soooooooooooooo friggen great. I've heard a couple of their songs from downloading off of purevolume.com and they sounded cool, Justin had a solo in one of the songs and they're band seemed pretty good overall......but tonight live, they just killed it. They were soooooOOoooooooOoooo good. The other guitarist dude was having serious issues cuz his guitar was all out of tune and was just wack and the guy's finger started bleeding halfway through from I don't know what....but he kept his cool and still sounded great, until they finished and he started screaming at his hand. Bassist was perty good, both guitars (especially Justin) were GREAT, drums were decent, but it was their sound together that made em great. Even on the songs I've already heard they somehow seemed to surprise me. The vocals were AMAZING considering the mic crap going on. I don't know, it's hard to explain in words how awesome it was. Ok, I like never sing, period. Not when I'm alone, not when I'm with friends, not even when I'm in the most comfortable situation possible and I'm with Christina....I just don't sing. But tonight, when they played "Think This Through" (The only song I know words to), I was so worked up and so into it that I couldn't help but yell out the chorus. I don't usually headbang all that much lately...i was headbanging. OK there was this one part that was kind of creepy, Justin was goin at it playin his guitar, then out of nowhere started staring at me, which he did for what seemed like a while, playing the whole time, then he turned away and just kept playin. It was a lil scary...

Ok so enough aboot the bands n such. I'ma tell you what I bought. 2 tickets, $8 each. one for me, one for christina. 3 My Former Self buttons. $.25 each. One for me, two for christina. 1 Tragedy Andy button. $.50. for christina. 1 Coke. $1.50. For Christina. The My Former Self CD, only cuz Justin never gave it to me during class like he was supposed to. he signed it. $8 fo me. money spent on me: $16.25. Money spent on Christina: $10.50. Total: $26.75. Know how much I'm gonna have after I put money in the bank to try to catch up to how much I had before I bought my amp? Nothing! I'm gonna be broke. Haven't been outta money for a whiiiile....
- posted by Joebo @ 12:23:49 AM