It was a nice day and i got down to Jerry's Pizza earlier then the gig was suppose to start and there was absolutely no one down there , well i thought people will show up later on because it did start at noon on a Saturday and people were still sleeping it off from the night before , but as more often nowadays people couldn't be bothered to come out and show some support which started off as a good cause for concern today , especially in this political climate and the rise of racial hatred . Well what gig doesn't have some sort of complication , well this one did it seemed like right from the beginning , things got going real late (after 2 or something like that ) , local band canceled the day of event , bands running late and such , very few people showing up and half the crowd were the out of town bands . THE CAPSOULS started out with some northern soul/reggae music . they are a local band but i hardly ever get out so this was my first time seeing them play live and they were great and a very tight set .
Next up was the 3 piece L.A. thrash band SQUARE UP who raged thru their set , hell i thought the singer/bassist was gonna shake his fuckin head off .
Next and up last was L.A.'s hardcore band SHORT TEMPER which the singer/bassist from SQUARE UP also played in
It could've been a lot better if more people would had actually showed up but this is . Bakersfield after all so i wasn't surprised at all . There has been afternoon gigs here before but have more bigger local and out of town bands , but people just don't seem to care even if it's for a good cause , they would rather go see bands and get fucked up then give a shit about a cause . I'm probably gonna catch shit for saying this but when it comes down to it Bakersfield just don't really give a shit excepts for their own self centered ego's , and will listen to any bands even if there is proof those bands or band members have ties with racist/nazi groups . my favorite is and its been said by a lot of people "I like early Screwdriver , before they were a racist band " . Are you fucking serious , that band has horrible music and they are not or never will be skinheads . They are fuckin BONEHEADS . and thank you for the tree thank welcomed Ian with a solid crunch . So Enough of my ranting , A big shout out to Big Dave for setting this up and trying to do something positive and to the bands that played , you all were great and all nice people and glad to have met you all . There was suppose to be a couple speakers but i don't think that happened , i don't know i was back and forth all day and walking up and down stairs with a damaged knee and a cane so i was wore out . I tried to video the bands as much as i could and i had never used a Gopro camera until that day so the sound is not as clear as i would have liked it to have been . so here is what video i did take , would have liked to been the full set by the bands but there's always maybe another time .
And last here is the cdr comp "LOVE MUSIC , HATE FASCISM" that i did to hand out at the gig , and thank you to all the bands that are on it and a BIG thank you to Sam and RADICAL FUN TIME for the patches THE CAPSOULS
