Feeling the Catastrophe

Best of the very few pictures I took of the show.

So Friday night Josh and I went to Click's Billiards in Tyler, Texas to see a Flickerstick show. We had been waiting for this for over a month. We show up a little early, get our tickets and wait for them to open the doors.

When they did finally open, we went in and found a spot at one of the tables in the left half of the bar. Josh drank, I sat there twitching waiting for the show to start. Also ahead of time, my writing may not be the sharpest this morning, 12 hours'll do that to ya.

More and more people show up and the first band takes the stage. They were called Entrust. The first few songs they played we're ok. Their lead singer was trying way way to hard to sound a certain way and this was bringing down the overall performance. The rest of the band though, were very talented. All hitting some nice riffs and solos and beats. Halfway through their set we moved down to the floor because Josh had already had to cross the whole bar just to piss. Once we got down there, Entrust decided to play a song about Jaeger(Yay-grr). Followed by a rap medley.

Yes that's right, a rap medley. It included such classic artists as Snoop, Biggie, Criss Cross, Outkast, Skee-Lo, and that Fat Mexican who sings the "Lean Back" song. Yes, this is a Rock concert and they sang this steaming pile of make me envy the dead. It seemed to go on forever too. Had to have been ten minutes plus. Was the single worst song I've ever heard in a concert, and I've seen Alligator Dave so that is saying a lot!

They got off the stage and made way for Rockett Queen. They at one point made a comment about how funny and cool the new Bowling for Soup video is. That should explain it all right there, but I'll go on. I really think they stole half their sound from Bowling, and the other half of their sound from a dead goat they stumbled upon on the way to the rock show. Rock Show you say? Well it's a coincidence you mention that, because this band said that in almost every single song. I know at least 2 of them focus on the phrase, and one included it but didn't focus on it. After the third song I really thought they were looping their music.

Speaking of the music. The whole night I thought it was just the shitty bands fault the sound quality was incredibly poor. Either they didn't sound check well enough or they did and they just have bad taste in what music should sound like. But I was wrong. Click's sound that night was atrocious. It was probably the worst sound I've encountered at a club in my career of concert going.

So Flickerstick takes the stage. Right when the house music cuts off, josh goes to piss. Well of course it starts before he gets back, but it didn't matter. There was only two distinguishable sounds during their set. The outrageously loud vocals, and the humming drudge of all the instruments just running together to form one blob of noise. After four songs we left our perch near the stage and retreated back towards the bar hoping that it sounded so bad because we were too close to a speaker. Nope, we moved back 20 feet or so and it still sounded awful. After Flicker played beautiful we left. That was the song Josh was waiting for and it was one of the 3 I wanted to hear most. Couldn't even really pick out it's main riff it was so distorted.

So we left, and got some grub at IHOP. Josh had probably the largest omelet I have ever seen. I'm getting one next time. Then we got home around 3am, and went to sleep around 3:30am.