okay,
here goes. i had a great comfest. so much fuckin fun. surprisingly, i saw a lot of good acts. let me see, i'll go in cronilogical order. monster movies were pretty good. the sound was a little fucked up, but their intensity was there regardless. outrageous orange were fucking aweful. just a bunch of the same nonesense one would expect of a "popular" columbus band. i was not impressed having never seen them. tim easton was pretty good. gotta respect the guy for his efforts. watershed...whatever. they can blow me. same as the sun. no wait. i'm sorry. the sun were good, but i know the drama that went down with them and i am a bit jaded. they were like the vines with a touch of the kinks. not my bag. rancid yak blew my dome of the fucking bleachers. their stage presence was great and their music was completely different than anything else. actually, while i'm on this topic, i reads the show review in the other paper of wigglepussy and the yak and must admit, it was a good one. it intriged me to check them both out. i am skipping ahead a bit, but wigglepussy, indiana put me in a place unknown to me. their music is good, without a doubt. but, it seemed a little too much at times. i don't quite know. i'll have to check them out again to decide what the fuck it is they are going for. gil mantera's were something else. the music was horrible, but you can't discredit their stage presence. oh my god. they have the biggest balls in columbus to do what they do. pretty fucking brilliant if you ask me. thee invaders were not as good as i thought. they have a lot of hype, but they fell short of that to me. the music was okay, but the presentation was pretty disgusting. just a bunch of washeed up older punkers trying to be rockstars. the randy's were fun. their vocals are immaculate. for what they do, i had to smile in that old timey 50's kind of way. oh wait, i forgot to mention flypaper. holy-fuckin shit. they were amazing. everyone int the tent was bouncin' around like there was nothing else that matters. i was blown away by their set. paul brown seemed a little sub par to me. ukelele man can kiss my ass and the midnighters were quite the surprise to me, as were the bygones. happy was great, as always and tony monaco is my hero. so, all and all, my picks for this week-end were:
rancid yak butter tea party
wigglepussy, indiana
gil mantera's party dream
flypaper
tony monaco
the bygones
i do wish i could'e seen tuml, miranda sound, cheater slicks, the vague, starving goliath, the big creak, utterspace, pretty mighty mighty and the jive turkeys. but as you know, drugs and alcohol make you unaware of time. happy comfest to all and i can't wait until next year.
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