My Wild Punk Rock Days - Revisiting Forgotten Tampa & St Pete Florida Area Music Venues / A Reunion
Tampa & St Pete Florida Memories
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today's adventure begins at this closed
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down store
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it's in the shape of a boat
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right here off of i-4
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heading from celebration to tampa st
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pete florida
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right off the interstate
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as a recording of this february 27th
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a sunday
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and i am heading
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to a concert this evening
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in saint pete florida
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very unusual that this is
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right here off the side of the road and
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welcome everyone
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adam the woo here hot water music is a
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band from gainesville florida
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from richmond virginia if i remember
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correctly avail
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both of them
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i have seen at least 20 to 30 times back
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in the 90s
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around florida when they were tour
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together
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any something i thought would never
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happen the band of vale has gotten back
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together and are doing a reunion of
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sorts even though they've done one or
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two i never
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in my lifetime
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thought i would see them again on stage
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and they are back in one of my favorite
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punk bands
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at janus landing
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i think it's called janus live now in st
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pete i'll be going there this evening
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and i'm heading over a little bit early
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and i'm just going to kind of dive into
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some some history of some of the shows i
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used to go to in ybor city tampa and
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saint pete prior also this piping hot
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caffeinated beverage it's kind of
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lukewarm now because i gotta leave in
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celebration i've already been driving an
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hour
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along with an intro i'm inviting you
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to join me
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shall you okay getting back on the
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interstate passing by dinosaur world a
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staple here off of i-4
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heading to ebor
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eboard city now this episode will not
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have a lot of personal nostalgia to it
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for example mcintosh road here
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my old car i had overheated on the way
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to an offspring vandal show in the mid
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90s at the fairgrounds stuff like that
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i'll be kind of peppering in and going
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into the historic district of ebore
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check out these old trolleys right here
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ybor city has these neat retro trolleys
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pretty cool now this whole area went
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through a revitalization in the late 90s
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back in 1996 where this buffalo wild
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wings
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is
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was a music store called the blue chair
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where i went to a couple of
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shows
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at the blue chair
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and it appears as if it's the same
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building they just put the buffalo wild
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wings inside it and walk over there and
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look and the groups i saw
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one lineup was texas is the reason and
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game face game face really love game
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face a lot and texas is the reason
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really good bantu revelation records
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also doc hopper and dead guy were in
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here which is kind of a mixed lineup
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because one of them was a very heavy
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you know very heavy metal type of band
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the other one was pop punk and i found
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this photo online of a band loading
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their equipment in and you can see off
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in the distance the buildings are still
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the same as well as the little
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patterns on the concrete and if memory
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serves me correct obviously this was
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1996. it was this one over here that
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that you would load in and the stage was
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up against that side wall through this
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very door right over there and i do know
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not everyone is going to know these
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bands or these places but for anyone
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that does maybe they would enjoy seeing
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this and i'm kind of stepping back into
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the time in my life that
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a little bit different than it was a
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long time ago and i obviously know there
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were other venues i probably will not be
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showing other shows i did not go to
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these are just memories that i had i
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used to work at publix during that time
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frame of my life i would go to concerts
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way out here drive all the way back to
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saint cloud quite a hike
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i worked on the overnight stalkers
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sometimes i go into work at 4 00 am i
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would get back into saint cloud at 3am
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take a little cat nap in my car
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and then go into work
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back in those days i didn't need sleep a
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lot has changed since then now i need a
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good six seven hours night of sleep back
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then i was running off about a half hour
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to an hour
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ought to be young again and a lot of
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flyers and even video footage in there
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can be found online
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gotta love the fact that some of that
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exists like this band the parasites and
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then also discount which i saw you know
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probably 50 times through florida
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usually in melbourne or orlando but they
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also played at the blue chair the singer
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of discount allison went on to be in
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dead weather with jack white
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fun fact also looking at a still from a
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video from a great pop punk band around
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here called the crumbs
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which i used to really like i'm noticing
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that window see if i can match that
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window up to current day as i drive back
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by all right behind that lamp post is
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that window so it means the stage would
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be on the other side of this wall
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so you got the entrance
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probably over there it's been a few
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years so
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that window matches up oh take a look at
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this
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mario
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located here at this building
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at 14609 north nebraska here in tampa
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just on the outskirts of tampa
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was the stone lounge looks considerably
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different than i remember it
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back from those days i went to quite a
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few shows one including total chaos
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saw them drove over from
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saint cloud or kissimmee wherever i was
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living at the time
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saw them here epitaph records
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that band was on that label saw the
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queers here but there was an interesting
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story about there from lookout records
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that record label has disbanded the
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band's still around
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however
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that show i was not able to get inside
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of because it was sold out
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i could not get in there and the door
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guy would not let me in
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and after pleading just say look i drove
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like two hours over here can i just go
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in and buy a t-shirt
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it was a firm no
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and kind of looking at it from this
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perspective i cannot recall where the
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stage was
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possibly this could have been the load
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indoors for the band equipment
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but it stretched this entire it was a
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pretty big venue
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and so many
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musical artists played here a lot of
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bands played here
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over the years
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this is a pretty popular place the stone
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lounge
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looks totally different at least the the
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exterior does almost unrecognizable not
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because
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of any other reason than just a time
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factor you know
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as i've gotten older your memory starts
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to slip away a little bit especially
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something that's a couple decades or
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more older that's probably the big thing
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plus the other facade has changed just a
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little bit there's a big truck parked in
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front of here
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no touring groups musicians
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have played in there for quite a while
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didn't go to this one but imagine seeing
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smash mouth if you look if you listen to
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early smash mouth it was a lot more
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rocking than the hits they had
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a little bit later on of course sick of
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it all
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orange nine and look who the opening act
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was corn
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you know corn is very popular now they
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would probably headline this show if
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this was modern day
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i saw orange nine of the first warped
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tour also that was 95 over at the
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fairgrounds
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and of course since phil the singer of
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sinsfield has since passed on
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great band saw them a couple times but i
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didn't see them at this video but i did
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see them
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while they were still
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still around oh this is a good job i
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found all these online
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glad someone posted them snapcase great
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revelation band if i recall
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and culture which was a
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hardcore band from central florida
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i remember seeing them as well but they
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played here at stone lounge but i saw
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them at other venues he's got a lot of
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shows i also want to mention the
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building stretches all the way down to
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this side the entrance could have been
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here on this end
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could have been down there where i was
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standing on that in
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but it also could have been on this one
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it's like i said it's been a few years
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i've slept since then i forget thanks
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made it now over to north 30th street
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this was the home of the pegasus lounge
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fast forwarding a little bit to 2003
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when i started playing music in a band
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right in here was the pegasus lounge now
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there's a food and deli
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store in the same spot and just off on
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the way over there are the roller
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coasters from busch gardens
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in tampa and i'm mistaken the pegasus
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was not where that food store is now the
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convenience store at the end
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the pegasus
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was right here at one
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zero zero zero eight
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is the address it's now called the new
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but when i started playing music 2003 i
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was in a band called 10 new toes became
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a new threat
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before i went on to join other bands
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and kind of a lot of the local shows
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that we would play would be in saint
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cloud in orlando but we'd also developed
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a little bit of a following over here in
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tampa thanks to a band by the name of
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elysium who would always kind of hook us
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up with a lot of shows
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so one zero zero eight one zero zero
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eight not to be confused with the
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pegasus
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there's like a liquor store that's a few
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miles from here i put that address and
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it's definitely not this this
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is the pegasus lounge
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that i played probably i don't know 30
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or 40 shows here
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pretty good decent following i say
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decent maybe like 50 100 people would
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show up to see us which i consider
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pretty good for like a local band
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sign it was here at poinsettia plaza
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now i never went to any concerts here i
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only played them myself
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inside there
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but this is it now called the new lounge
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tampa's hottest
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bar and lounge according to the sign
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i think this here even though it was the
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technical address was zero eight i think
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this was the load-in door
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and the stage
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no this was okay yeah here's the stage
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right here look i still see the stage
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down there so the stage would have been
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here you can even see me
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and the window waving so the stage would
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have been right behind here facing that
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way so that would have been the loading
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door and that would have been the door
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you know that you pay the
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person at the door was taking the money
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funny thing too
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i do recall being the drummer of that
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band at the time john
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we were both very thin
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thinner than i am now and we would
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squeeze through these bars and say look
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we can squeeze through these bars
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there's no way i'd be able to squeeze
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through this now i would get stuck in
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here
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that is so funny even thinking about
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that from 2003.
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this is only like i don't know i'm
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always really thin there notice the
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faded out lettering there
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starting with the p there for pegasus
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would have had the the pegasus mascot
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here on this little silhouetted
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silhouette outed section and then lounge
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down here
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as as stated it never went never went to
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any shows never went to any concerts
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where i went and saw anyone perform
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other than the other bands that would
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either play after us or before us
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but i did take the stage here a lot of
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times at the pegasus
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now a totally different venue
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and these bars are still here
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i can also still recall it's coming out
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going out sometimes
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you know in between bands
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and looking over at busch gardens saying
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oh it'd be pretty cool
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one day to go over and ride some
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coasters
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you know before a show we never did it
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though because it was such a long drive
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long hike over here
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getting here early loading and playing
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the show what time we would get home
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would be you know three or four a.m
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back over to the orlando area oh i am
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also incorrect on this
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it is like their pegasus bar lounge
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signs still there
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that's pretty cool and you can hear the
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screaming over at busch gardens
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and the coasters off in the distance
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that is cool signs still there at least
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here by the road ah yes
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good memories of the past here in tampa
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forgotten all about this place honestly
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until i was heading over going to the
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show i'm going to tonight
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came up with the idea
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just kind of show a little history of
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i've done band stuff in orlando and i've
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showed some of the venues around there
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that i saw
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concerts at and you know played shows
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out but never in the tampa area so
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i'm kind of glad i thought of that
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this was cool to see this but i should
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get moving on though because yeah you
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gotta notice this here don't want to
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stick around here too long might that i
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don't know how how bad they enforce that
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i've only been here for a few minutes
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but maybe i don't know would that be
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loitering oh take a look at that over
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across the street
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it's a doc brown painting mural nice ah
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the downtown tampa skyline i'm gonna
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pass by that though go over to safety
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and before going over the saint pete
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bridge from tampa stopping off at this
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mall they ended up having
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some tampa bay rays merchandise got kier
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meyer here and a rosarina
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i mean i already have a few raised
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shirts but there's not really a good
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selection over by where i'm at in
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central florida so whenever i get over
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here to the tampa side i always try to
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load up
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just wish the baseball season would
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hurry up and start and this lockout
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would end that would be nice classic car
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alert approaching
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and a couple more up here
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going over the bridge three classic cars
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in a row now i got off of the freeway
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onto mlk and the corner of
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third ave north there's a beatles all
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you need is love mural over there
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now this i could not find any info as
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far as a quick search i might have to
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research it a little bit later more
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thoroughly
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but just using
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you know the thought process or muscle
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memory if you want to call it
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uh
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back in the day when i would
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go to shows right over through here this
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rings a serious
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bell through here
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in fact i believe that this was the spot
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could have been this church could have
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been this
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artisan spot or
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this food store on the end
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somewhere in here one of these roll-up
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doors was a venue
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like i said i did a quick search could
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not figure out what it was but i saw afi
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with i believe ensign
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e-n-s-i-g-n and also another time i saw
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ignite here and another time
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i saw straight faced now it could have
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been
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at the next one southern california
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straight faced
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they were on
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i think they're on victory records for a
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while epitaph they were on epitaph
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anyway
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so over there it could have been over
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there but i am going to say 99 sure it
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was one of these roll-up doors was a
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venue i think it was even a scar fest at
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one time
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in here because i recall talking
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to davey havoc from afi at one
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particular time as well as
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johnny from straight face and i can
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remember this in the background with
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their tour van right here on both
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occasions talking to both those guys and
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that was before afi got really really
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popular obviously in fact the first tour
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afi ever did
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was down the road opening for a band
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called gutter mouth which i ended up
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joining that band
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about a decade ago probably a little
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more than a decade ago i was in that
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band for
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two or three years at a bunch of tours
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but before that this is back in the 90s
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the first tour they ever did they took
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afi out
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with them
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and that was at the state theater so i'm
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gonna go over there and find that but
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i wish there was a local around that
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would know was this this used to be a
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venue right here now called arts food
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store or possibly this one but this
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looks this this area looks very familiar
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it's kind of it's ringing a serious bell
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right through here no idea what the name
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of the venue was what the name of the
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club was how long it survived but i did
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go to at least three maybe four
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right here on this corner and i'm not
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ruling out it could have been one of
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these buildings could have been one of
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those
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over there as well
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but leaning towards that just based on
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you know based on that that over there
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just you know it's weird how your mind
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works and you can just go back
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to a time even though it's a couple
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decks three decades ago give or take ah
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it's all coming back to me now my
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roommate rob that i had at the time we
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were roommates for a long time we would
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always you know go and support bands on
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the scene travel all over bands would
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play here like i said afi one time
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ignite another time and then straight
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face another time we would always drive
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his car you take my car which usually
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overheated his car ran a little bit
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better than mine but did not have a
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radio so he had kind of a boom box in
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the back with a cd player that ran off
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batteries so almost every other day we
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had to buy the big batteries and you
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have to lean behind the seat
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to play the cds ah there it is the trop
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tropicana field
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home of the tampa bay rays
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some cars in the parking lot actually
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quite a few cars in the parking lot
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something else must be going on
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it's not baseball though
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baseball is delayed due to the lockout
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the building across the way there is now
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called the floridian but i remember it
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as the state theater here in saint pete
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a source of a venue for many many shows
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that i went to over the years let me go
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ahead and go around the back in fact if
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i was to try to list all the different
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bands that i saw there
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since the 90s and on i would have a
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tough time
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even being able to do that
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just a lot
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not all on the same bill but at
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different times
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no use for a name
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i saw in there face to face i saw it
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another time
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casualties at another time
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got her mouth played here a few times
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afi played inside of here
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in fact that was the first tour as i was
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mentioning back to the other place this
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is having a hard time
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riding the scooter
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across this when no use for a name
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played here one of the guys that i was
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friends with
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was friends with a lot of bands so we
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got backstage and in the upper room
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up there
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above the stage looking down is a little
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tiny room
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up in the tippy top
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of this former state theater and i got
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food
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against sickness
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food poisoning
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from a local restaurant and i was not
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feeling very well and someone
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in one of the bands there was three or
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four bands on that bill either them or
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their roadie or their merch guy or
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someone thought it would be funny to
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lock me in the bathroom
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in the room up there
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wasn't a very nice thing to do i was
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very ill not feeling well so i don't
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have the best
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thought
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how's it going there is a rather large
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shark over here on the side
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of the former state theater
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does it look like the shark is about to
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take a bite out of me
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i think it does
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i guess i could probably get a little
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closer to it right
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maybe over here
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beware of sharks
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and able to walk inside the state
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theater as well from the front they did
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let me go in and just kind of stand here
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and get a little view of the stage i
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wanted to point out that upstairs area i
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was referring to where i got locked in
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the bathroom and i had was very sick to
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my stomach up there in that corner up
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there where i'm pointing and they've
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added they've really fixed this place up
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nicely it's very very nice with the the
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floor all with the checkerboard design
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and all that and up top they still have
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the balcony up here that was always here
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the balcony is still up there and
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there's my shadow and rolling through
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saint pete going over to janice right
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here off the side of the street the
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street area you just you can see this
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from the road itself
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kind of looking up you see the flyer for
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the evening
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well it's like a poster size flyer if
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you will it has the bands and 6 30 start
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time and also if you kind of look back
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in there there's some people in there
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loading in the equipment the roadies and
20:06
whatnot getting it all
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set up now this staircase
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back in the mid 90s no effects came
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through with bouncing souls on tour in
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another band it was the heavy petting
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zoo tour
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and the merch guy for no effects had me
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help out by giving away
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survival of the fattest cds
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from this stairwell i stood up on the
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stairwell and kind of threw out cds to
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everyone that was leaving leaving from
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the show
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never seen nothing like that before
20:34
double decker bike and here's the flyer
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from janus from back in the day snfu
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yeah i saw them a long time ago the
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singer just passed recently
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great band
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another one at janus
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i like these old-timey looking flyers
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there's something very nostalgic about
20:51
them used to be a couple venues here on
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the 600 block of central as well
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one was called fubar and one was called
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the local 662
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both of them are gone now it is
21:02
interesting how some
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shows and concerts nowadays certain
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artists do not want you filming that's
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probably not the bands that are playing
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that might be a janice landing thing
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if i'm able to take my cell phone i'm
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gonna take the camera but if i take the
21:14
cell phone in i will insert footage now
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of the band playing
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both bands that are playing
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first would be there's an opening act
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and then a veil from richmond virginia
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if it works out i will have footage of
21:28
that over me talking over this there's
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just like a little short snippet a short
21:32
clip
21:32
of that and then
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from florida gainesville hot water music
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here i cannot remember the last time
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available played in florida
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still
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i mean really you are
21:45
the amount of gratitude that we all feel
21:47
be well hot water music and the veil
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feels
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unprecedented thank you so much
22:03
all right show's over made it back to my
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car
22:04
i i was seeing it a lot i knew i knew
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every song from a veil which was great
22:08
uh i knew
22:10
all this all the songs that they were
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singing
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pretty well i think i've been listening
22:14
to them for many many years over a
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couple decades so i think i have their
22:18
repertoire
22:20
down pat pretty good didn't really jump
22:22
in the pit too much kind of got up front
22:24
with everyone singing along
22:27
and whatnot towards the end there was a
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pretty good little slam dancing circle
22:31
pick going on i almost jumped in there i
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was like right on the edge
22:34
singing along kind of screaming but i
22:36
also had my phone out so i didn't want
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to get my phone knocked over
22:38
as well as that but definitely worth
22:41
going to this show driving out from
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celebration all the way to st petersburg
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florida staying out a little late it's
22:47
gonna take me a while to get back but
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definitely worthwhile
22:50
to see a band that honestly not only
22:54
seeing hot water music and also hot
22:55
water music played before available
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avail was the headliner
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which i was kind of expecting hot water
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to be the the headliner but a veil they
23:03
played last maybe they're switching off
23:05
to maybe through the tour they were kind
23:07
of alternating who would be the
23:08
headliner nonetheless avail closed it
23:10
out and never thought i would see a veil
23:12
again i never thought i'd see a veil
23:13
again and i was able to they got back
23:15
together thankfully they got back
23:16
together to play a show after all these
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years they did a reunion about a year
23:20
ago and some other states that sold out
23:23
immediately they didn't do one in
23:24
florida i wasn't able to go to the
23:26
out-of-state ones but i was able to go
23:28
to this one and i'm glad i did i'll see
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in the next video the vlog
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can you tell my voices a little bit
23:35
a little bit strained except i was
23:37
singing the vlog
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is over