Sun Sep 23, 2001 10:26 am
Subject: When do Haloween tickets go on sale?

Note question.

I think that I can happily say that as the Devils leave us with very few
regrets.

What do I mean? When Frank Sinatra died I regretted having never seen him in
concert.
When the RCKNDY was shut down, I regretted missing whatever the last show was.
When the mother fucker cobain killed himself, I didn't walk down Queen Anne
Hill to the memorial thing at the Seattle Center, a 15 minute
walk. I watched it on TV news, ON TV!

But with the devils disbanding I am glad that I can say that so few regrets
remain.
I missed the Bumbershoot Makeup and Sword show. I never quite got around to
joining the fan club (I have a check written to the Murder City
Devils Fan Club from several years ago in an envelope with a 32 cent stamp
somewhere, but it was never sent.) I wasn't there for the first
show. I never got the Christmas single, and finally, I never found a way to
sneak in to the EMP show, (the untorn tickets are still in my
wallet.)

But on the whole, when I am old and I look back on my youth, and the devils
have a Velvet Underground, Germs or Stooges - esque postmortem
following many times the size of what they had in their time, and there is a
Rhino compilation album with a bunch of photographs I can look at
them and say, "I was at that show, I was at that show, I was at that show, I
knew her, I used to see that guy all the time..."

I've been to more devils shows than I can recall, some with crowds who
worshiped the band, some who were just discovering the band, and one
crowd that seemed totally uninterested and just wanted Shane McGowan to get his
drunk ass on the stage. I have seen them in tiny bars with
stages raised only a few inches, and at full scale festival scaffolding stages.
I have seen them while I was in states from stone cold
sobriety to really pretty damn drunk.

So while it is sad to see them go, the Murder City Devils will be just below
Christmas when I am old and when I am thinking of happy memories.