The Moistboyz destroyed my eardrums.
The band that opened was called Storm and the Balls. they play every wednesday at Dante's. It was some fairly attractive chick and three dudes playing wierd mashed up covers (The music from Everclear's Santa Monica with the words of Tainted Love, for example). She was wearing revealing clothes and flashed me her kookoo a few times. Although the music was about at novelty level, here sexness gave the drunken crowd of ugly men everything they needed. (Note: When I went home I typed the bands name into google and found that they have kind of a cult following, and there is even a fansite. Weird)
I was right up front. When we were all waiting for the 'boyz to come on, all of a sudden I realized I needed to urinate the 5 beers I had consumed. I looked around and saw that the show was FUCKING PACKED. Soldout, i found out later. So I held it. The roadie guy set out setlists and I couldn't help but look. "U BLOW' followed by "Supersoaker MD50" were first and second. Then some from the new album. I decided I would stand there for the first two songs(they are in my Top 6 moistboyz songs) and then fight my way out of the crowd and into the bathroom. They came out and I saw Mickey and Dickey Moist and it was glorious. Dickey Moist (singer) is quite a sight let me tell ya. He looks like the love child of Anthony Keidis, Iggy Pop, and The Crypt Keeper. That guy is rock n roll. I give him 5 years to live.
By about halfway through their set, I looked around and suddenly realized how DRUNK EVERYONE was. EVERYONE. Everyone was shaking their fists and screaming along and spraying beer on the band and fucking shit up in a general sort of way. If you want to see a lot of people on hard drugs, go and see SUNN O))). If you want to see EVERYONE get drunk off Budweiser and have the most rock n roll time ever without any pretentiousness thrown in, a Moistboyz show is for you.
I wouldn't call it the Most rockin show I've seen as far as the music was concerned (although definately the loudest), but as far as everything that was happening, it most certainly was the rockinest. (Although I've seen so many shows hat I thought were the rockinest at the time that It's hard to tell anymore) Heck, it might even be the most musically rockin shows I've ever seen too, because that is all it is, rock, and they do it in a serious way. Thats it and thats all.
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