The 35 Minutes That Sum It Up Best: Motivational Karaoke, "Spring Training Eve"

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Today while driving around South Austin, my iPod bringed me a blast from me past.  A 35-minute segment of Motivational Karoke, the WESN radio show that Chris Golwitzer and I painstakingly crafted from 2002-2005.  It wunt crafted.  It wunt no pain. Part 5 of "SPRING TRAINING EVE (2/22/04) just seemed to sum up what we were about. It starts with an interview with Ted Leo after he blew out his voice in Champaign and I finished the singing for him.  That ends with a clip of Babe Ruth with a fake swear word beeped in. We played Ted Leo quite a bit. A new song that's old now. A lengthy, lie-riddled microphone break, back-selling a lot of things that we used to play.  A tongue lashing of the DJs on before us. An explanation of what Google is and how to spell it, followed by the futile spelling of our very long impossible find website. We were doing Dream Warriorisms then because we were on from 12-2am at that time.  We went retro and pulled out...
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Weedeater, X, Y, Zeke... Downtown Bloomington To Be Broken Down To Its Elements.

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Where to begin...

Some forms of rock and roll are not meant for everyone.  Zeke and Weedeater are not for everyone.  I'm aroused just thinking about it.

Let's get in the Time Machine...

One day, in 2005, one Nathan Arling, of The Last Vegas and Double Door (RIP), called up and asked if I could get $$$ to book Zeke.  I had been booking bands at Paulie's, but nothing with a contract.  I had heard of Zeke from Handsome Mick of the Resinators, from Illinois, but I'd never heard them before.

It wound up being a valuable lesson for my future career at Double Door as a "Grocery Shopper For Bands."

A lot of memories here, but sooner or later, there must be a point... let's continue...

2005

This is where and when I met Anthony Rubino, aka Wild Willy Williams, of The Shithawks.  He was playing bass for The Last Vegas at the time.  I also met Chad Cherry, the other new guy in the band.  I think this might have been his 1st or 2nd show with the band.

There was a lot of anxiety going into this show because I just didn't know what I was doing.  Then the day came and it was packed, loud and profitable.  This was pretty much the same time I was unraveling and deciding I had to skip town.

Zeke was loud.  Zeke was fast.

QUICK, GET IN THE TIME MACHINE...

One day in 2006, I found myself working at the ol' Double Door for pennies and booze.

There was a certain song that would be absolutely cranked over the sound system to clear the room of "sweater folks" after "sweater folks" shows.  Bob Schneider is a good example.  He'd pack the place with 35-year-old white women without tattoos.  A perfectly fine demographic, but when it's time to clear the bar, it is time to clear the bar, and folks... Weedeater ain't for everybody.

"MONKEY JUNCTION" was a staff favorite and an effective room clearer.

When the band played there, it was wonderfully oppressive.  Completely gnarly.  Singer/bassist, Dixie... routinely puked himself while playing.


Weedeater was loud.  Weedeater was slow.

OK, Everyone out of the Time Machine...

June 26th, both these bands are playing NIGHTSHOP in downtown Bloomington, the one in Illinois.  These two bands are playing a lot of places, but I really need Bloomington/Normal to know that this is something to check out.  Feel the bass in your chest.

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