Forgotten Orlando Music Venues - 1st Warped Tour / Club Nowhere / The Edge / Visage / Fairbanks Inn
A tour around former Orlando music venues from the 90s
Transcript
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welcome everyone adam the woo here
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just listening to the soothing sounds of
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i-4
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going over that shoulder today's
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adventure begins in downtown orlando and
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we'll be traversing around the entire
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area within a few miles
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of where i'm standing to former venues
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music establishments that i frequented
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on a not maybe not daily but at least a
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weekly
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basis between 1992 95
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96 that is the era i am going to be
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chiming in
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and talking about my memories of i was
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really into you know
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my family moved here in 1991 i was 17
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years old i got my first car
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i started driving and the world was my
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oyster
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started going to seeing a lot of live
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music
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first you know the rock genre listen to
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the radio and then i discovered a little
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bit of under the underground scene like
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a lot of people in 1994
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punk rock took a hold of my life and i'm
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just going to kind of share
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some of my thoughts and memories and
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dive into my past
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just a little bit around this area
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inviting you to join me
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shall you i guess you could refer to
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this as a 25
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year old retrospective
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it was 25 years ago it was 95 well
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actually 26 now
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yo give or take a year aces cafe
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used to be the edge and this parking lot
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was the edge
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concert field and over there where it
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looks to be a tennis court
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used to be the edge shed
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fun fact in 1995 this was where the very
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first
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warped tour took place warped tour
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number one right here inside what is now
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ace's cafe the edge back then
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there was one stage and another stage
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well it wasn't out in the parking lot
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there was a
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skateboarding ramp and the other stage
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was back there
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at the ed shed yeah just seeing this
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really
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brings back a flood of memories
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first time i saw gutter mouth was here
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offspring
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pennywise right here in a little shed
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that held just a few hundred people
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pumpkin scarfest was a local tradition
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in mid-90s
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wow
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stone temple pilots right here in this
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field
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green day on the dookie tour
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pantera had a stage set up
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right over there crowd was here
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good times the undertow tour
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tool right inside these walls
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courtney loves whole
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well her the vandal bad religion on
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another occasion unwritten law
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bad brains fun fact about seeing bad
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brains here i got my wallet stolen
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very next day i went to the groove tube
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in india atlantic florida and purchased
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this
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this is over a quarter of a century old
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this wallet
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and it all stemmed of having my previous
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one stolen
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right inside here the stage when it was
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the concert field
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right there i saw sound garden here as
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well
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the audience
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right there i was one of those one of
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them
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prior to doors opening the line would
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cue up here on the sidewalk
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the parking was over there what is now
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the lynx bus station
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and these palm trees are new there used
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to be different types of trees here and
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i recall at one point
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out of boredom while everyone was kind
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of waiting for the doors to open someone
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climbs the previous tree that was right
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there and
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perched himself up in the limbs
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it's amazing what you remember isn't it
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it was also right in there where i saw
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the mighty mighty boss stones for the
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first time
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opening for another band called the
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butthole surfers
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it's a real bad name mighty mighty boss
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stones it was the don't know how to
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party tour
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blew my mind saw them many many times
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after that but oh my gosh first
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impression
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incredible awesome
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it's a little wilder back in those days
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no effects heavy
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petting zoo tour i climbed to the second
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floor rafters inside
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and dove off security grabbed a hold of
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me kicked me out
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and i just as they escorted me i kept
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stating loudly
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i'm just having fun just having fun
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during one of the events i can't recall
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which one huge congregation of people
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everyone elbow to elbow
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i had the brainstormed idea to bring
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along a sheet
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and me and a couple friends took the
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sheet grabbed aside
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and people would sit on the sheet almost
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like a makeshift trampoline and we would
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launch people in the air and then
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catch them back on the sheet i even
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jumped on the sheet i was a little i was
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i weighed considerably less after time
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the sheep broke but i'd say maybe a half
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a dozen to a dozen
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maybe more people got launched in the
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air on that sheet
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up and down up and down a good 20 feet
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tall
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yeah it's all coming back to me now hey
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kind of ingenious that sheet idea in the
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early 2000s i
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started a band and played in quite a few
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of them this was kind of the precursor
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to that i'm not even really going to
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mention any
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any of that era just wanted to focus on
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when i first started getting into music
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and going to shows
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just around the mid 90s good to see
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independent bar still over there
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commonly referred to as
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ibarr and planet pizza is still back
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behind it
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oh yes this was a late night staple
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after the shows got yourself a slice
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conveniently located to a couple venues
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used to be an
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alley back here yeah there we go
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the patio where there's always a party
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used to be called something else and i
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saw
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bouncing souls one of the probably 50
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times i've seen the
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the souls over the years back there
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through those now wooden planks
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kind of near the end down there what's
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now the social
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back then was called the downtown jazz
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and blues club and then the sapphire
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supper club
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64 north was referred to as something
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else
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but ibarr saw one of the
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the wildest shows took place in here
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it was the toasters great ska band and
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murphy's law first time seeing murphy's
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law
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holy cow it went off
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i just looked it up it was technically
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called barbarella back then it was in
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1994
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on september 15th the opening acts were
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shyster
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probably one of the best local band
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local punk bands back then
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they played and opened on every single
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show
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but i could recall at least probably 90
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percent of them
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and rocket 88 and
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what is now chairs and stuff in there
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was just an open floor where everyone
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was
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doing a little slam dancing i picked up
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a weezer
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blue album cassette at wax tree records
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never had heard of them just bought it
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because of the album cover
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and they performed for the first time
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that i can recall seeing them do a tour
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for chainsaw kittens they were the
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opening act i showed up here
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and there as i was about to pay
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admission to go in it was only a few
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dollars
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the person at the door said that weezer
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had cancelled
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because the sweater song had just about
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to hit mtv and they were going to do a
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larger tour larger venue so i didn't get
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to see them inside
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well i believe was the downtown jazz and
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blues club back then
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this place here been in probably a
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hundred times into this establishment
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just peeking in the front window here i
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saw 311
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in this tiny place reverend horton heat
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i honestly can't even think
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of the dozens upon dozens of musical
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acts i saw on that that small stage
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drawing a blank gold finger
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snap case there's many more
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but i'm putting myself on the spot here
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as i get older i
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forget a lot of things one thing i will
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not forget however
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is the subway that used to be right
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there
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subway sandwich shop that was really
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about one of the few places
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other than the pizza place behind that
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you could go get
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a little snack after the show
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can almost envision my my previous
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younger self standing right here
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waiting for the doors to open as i did
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many times
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right here along this sidewalk
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heading just a few miles away down
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colonial drive it was a little place up
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here
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that i cannot recall the name of i don't
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remember what it was named
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still kindness sorta looks the same
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from this side parking lot
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more or less how it was
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i believe now it's a realtor the
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ambassador hotel across the road
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the show i recall the most
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was blue meanies and hagfish
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both amazing bands saw right in here and
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quite a handful of others and one of the
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multitude of times that i saw
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less than jake florida's own less than
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jake
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in there as well and triple a against
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all authority
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quite a few times great skyband
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scott corvant yes flashbacks of
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from my youth just kind of
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relaxing here in this parking lot
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i'm gonna connect with obt and head up
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to
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the formerly the visage nightclub all
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right this one i am more than a little
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bit hazy on the specifics of but i
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do believe it was located at the north
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park
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commerce center technical addresses 6341
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north
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orange blossom trail and ringing a very
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mellow and slight bell in my head is the
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corner of this building which is now
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ortho
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america that might have been visage it
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was one
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it was one of these could have been this
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one but i am leaning towards
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this corner here and i believe there is
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a bay door where the bands would load
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their equipment in
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around the other side the name would
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have been right there on that marquee
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gosh it's been 25 years
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faintly do recall parking back in this
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section
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if you faintly recall that and yeah i'm
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certain that the entry point was right
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up there
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very first time i ever saw no fx on the
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white trash tour opening for fish bone
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right inside there just all guesses but
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there are some bay doors there
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could have been where the the bands
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loaded their equipment in
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this looks like this has all been
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remodeled
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as well also saw a clutch for the first
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time
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sepultura or supultra depending on how
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you pronounce it
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in here as well the lemon heads
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evadando i believe the singer's name was
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he performed in there and the very first
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non-local
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show concert i ever went to the first
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name
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name recognized act that i ever attended
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in my entire life was at visage
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radiohead inside
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this moderately small place for a band
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of that caliber
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it was a long time ago it was the what
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was the first album we had pablo
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pablo something it was an amazing show i
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just looked it up and radiohead was the
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opening act
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belly was the headliner it was in 1993
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september 24th of 1993 drove a few miles
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at five or six over to fern park next to
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the orlando
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highlight building now called the olay
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live events building
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parking lot is still here could hold a
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few cars
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as well as on this side also
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which where the load-in doors were and
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the front entrance
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as i stated a little hazy it's back in
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94 march of 94.
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i saw green day also on the on the
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dookie tour
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about six months prior to the edge
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concert field
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after radio play of longview they became
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instantly popular and played to three or
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four thousand people
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in that field but half a year earlier
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there was only a couple hundred of us
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who watch them on the small stage here
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opening act tilt lookout records tilt
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later to put an album out on fat records
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one of many shows that i attended here
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it was known as the station
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had some train cars around it
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i'm 99 certain this is where it stood
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because you could drive around the back
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and this tower
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i do recall very strongly
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you could see peeking over the top of
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the roof
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and right in here you can see it really
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was not that big of a place
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i would imagine the stage
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here the stage kind of ran this way
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front door
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over there and audience would be here
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along the back where you know the bar
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restroom
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and then along this side where some more
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tables
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stools where you could sit chairs and
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then back around again
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to the stage here
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yeah pretty neat so long ago but it
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almost seems like just yesterday in fact
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i
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this first song they played still stuck
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in my head it was welcome to paradise
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billy joe mike dirk trey cool walked
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right out from a little
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backstage area walked up on the stage
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there was no
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there was no barricade whatsoever
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everyone could just jump get on stage
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jump off a little stage diving taking
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very intimate amazing experience to see
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them before they
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became the green day that everyone knows
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and loves to this day it was
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green day holds a special place in my
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heart for me kerplunk
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my favorite album of theirs pretty much
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all the way through warning
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rewarding was kind of a an interesting
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departure on their style
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but still really enjoyed it for me green
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day
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kind of took a second incarnation at
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that point
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going forward i like the newer stuff but
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for me
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anything pre-warning especially up to
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insomniac
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i just love so much in fact i even have
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have the kerplunk tattoo there on the
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arm i haven't really kept up with a lot
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of their newer stuff
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post warning i've heard a few of the
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albums
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it didn't really doesn't really grab me
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in the same way some of those
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some of the early work did
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i saw a lot of other bands i like here
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straight face was a great
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southern california band that i got
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really into
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saw them here as well on that's very
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same stage
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and collective soul not a punk rock band
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but a band not from florida however
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when they first started there was an
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orlando-based
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radio station that was one of the first
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ones in the nation to play them
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and one of the first concerts they ever
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did was on that stage right here and i
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got to witness it collective soul the
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building
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kind of was where the the grass is and
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it had an awning that stretched out
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similar almost in the fashion to there
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it's almost as if the the ground and the
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grass
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is where the building itself was with
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the awning
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protruding out right there
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just stepped right in going in
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to the station and then immediately
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the stage was right here give or take a
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few feet
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don't hold it against me too much if i'm
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incorrect
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it's the next lot over but i'm pretty
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certain
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that's that's that it's been a while i
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stayed it's been been a heck of a long
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time so
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yeah your thoughts change and fade away
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over time
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here's a pretty good reference photo
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there's that awning i was referring to
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that was when it was still standing made
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it a ways back over just off colonial
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again off in the distance this is
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bennett road
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and this building
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was once club nowhere
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a facade well and an interior that i
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know
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very well on many occasions
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i went through this front door
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saw clutch on tour here also as well as
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other places
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the meat men now green day also played
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here at 93.
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i did not attend that that was a few
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months before
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i had really even heard of them
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but they did also play in there
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also for a short time in the late 90s
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there was a record store
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and in that section
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now used for something else not a music
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venue
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my fondest recollection
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would have been the don't turn away
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face-to-face
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tour 94 95
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ish fat records it was the first album
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that that band had put out on that label
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and i it was before the internet or you
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could just simply look up
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what a band sounded like what their
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music was
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listen to songs but i knew that
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the label was owned by fat mike from
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nofx
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and because i like them that i just
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assumed that
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most the music that he was going to be
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putting out would be something to my
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liking
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so i showed up i parked in a
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spot right along here only a couple
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a couple of rows here got here very
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early before doors
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well doors had open but no one had
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arrived
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walked in there was no one here went to
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the merch counter
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bought a cassette tape yes this is
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before cds
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face to face the album on cassette came
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back out to my car
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over here listen to it at least twice
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front and back maybe 25 minutes long on
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each side so for about an hour
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listen to all the songs so i kind of
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knew what they sounded like soon as i
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put it in hit play i thought oh yes
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this is going to be good more people
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showed up throughout the course of the
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evening
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they took they didn't take the stage
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they took the floor there was no stage
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fans just played on the floor set their
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equipment up
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history in the making and i was was
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instantly into that band and saw them
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over the years a lot of memories a lot
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of memories in here
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that's just one one of many that i could
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share
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club of nowhere bennett road orlando
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very
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narrow corridors in that wall over there
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is where the artist would perform
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taking place right got very sweaty
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and exciting i assure you obviously it's
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been repurposed
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and the wall could have been pushed back
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a little bit
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that's might not be the original spot of
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the wall but in close proximity
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that's about the size dimensions of what
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club club nowhere was
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a lot of great bands performed in here
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right in this little room
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it's amazing how the mind works
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something you haven't thought about
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in a long time could just pop back in
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and
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be very prominent in the thoughts just
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just from seeing a building
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and things that happen in and around it
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you know decades ago
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you could refer to them as the good old
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days but honestly when you're when
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you're sometimes when you're living in
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those
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in those times you don't realize that
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nostalgia you're gonna have after
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returning to them many years later
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a lot of nostalgia i could kind of go on
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and on
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you know going a couple years past the
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time frame i'm designating
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but i'm going to stick to you know
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around 93 94 95 96.
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the last spot is here on fairbanks
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avenue at what was the location of
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the fairbanks inn and as
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as the locals those in the scene called
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it
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the fbi has the address written right
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there on the side 1788 west fairbanks
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ave
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i can write a laundry list
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of bands that i saw inside this building
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vandals bucco9
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earth crisis
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bouncing souls one of the many times i
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saw the souls
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agent orange
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blink 182 back on the chess ir cat tour
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before travis joined back when it was
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scott raynor
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in fact during the blink 182 show they
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were playing the song
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undergarments and the stage was only
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about a foot tall
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and i quote unquote stage dove
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during about the middle point of the
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song
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and kind of leaped up and did a little
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crowd surfing security grabbed me
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it was not allowed in here you could not
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stage dive and i was kicked out of that
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my friends banned a man by the name of a
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stizzle
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a ska punk band they opened the show
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then unwritten law
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then blank so many
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so many memories and moments that
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happened in there
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maybe 100 concerts 100 shows i went to
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the earth crisis show was pretty funny
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from what i remember
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the last song they had run over their
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allotted set time
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and the sound guy turned the sound off
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so the entire
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final song which i believe was firestorm
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the most popular one
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everyone just got on stage and sang
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along with no amplifiers
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needed it was just a large congregation
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sing-along on stage
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yep spent a lot of time in this parking
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lot
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before and after each show a lot of time
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also a few years after that time frame
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uh there was there was a guy in the
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scene that opened
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up his own independent venue and some
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warehouses
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back over there behind the fairbanks end
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that's a whole other subject matter in
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fact i might at some point
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go into a part two of this but i really
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wanted to go into the
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delve into the beginning stages of my
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concert going
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for my into getting into the punk rock
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roots
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before prior before i was even in a band
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even before i even picked up a bass
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guitar
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in the in the early into the mid 90s
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