
So, Doug (drums) and Alex (guitar) got to my place around 3-4 in the afternoon so we could jam a little beforehand. Dave (vocals) stayed in Johnson City.
The kick pedal didn't hold up for very long, so after a short jam, we got everything loaded into the van. We waited for a bit, then headed out and picked up Doug's gf, as well as our friend Dustin.
We were running a little late already, but they stopped by McDonald's in Gray to get some food. The trip consisted of us singing songs, replacing certain words with "puppet." Odd, I know, but hilarious.
We got there and the first band, Fighting Haysi, had already started playing and we were told they were 2-3 songs into their set. We were up next, so we got everything unloaded and put it on the sidewalk near the door. I walked in and caught a little bit of them playing, but I was mostly thinking about us being next.
Fighting Haysi ended their set and people started coming outside. We get everything in on the stage and set up. After a few minutes, we were ready to go.
Up until this point, I was slightly nervous, but nothing bad. It really set in once we kicked into our intro. It was a simple, slow intro, though, so no big mistakes.
The intro fades out and the four-count kicks us into "Wormfood." Lots of mistakes from me at first, but I calm down a little bit and we finish it. The music had a ton of energy and you could tell people were getting into it. We had a nice crowd reaction/applause after that song ended.
We played through 6 more songs (2 really short ones) and although we all made our mistakes, you could tell people enjoyed it. Afterwards, we got quite a few compliments on our performance. Killbot even wants us on the next issue of his Infolepsy 'zine. Most of these people I'd seen before, but one random guy we'd never seen before complimented us while me and Alex were walking by.
There was an older, train-hopping metalhead in there trying to start pits. He went by "Satan." He thought we kicked ass, haha.
This was filmed:
Mental Shocks first show from alex depew on Vimeo.
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