Performance Review

For my first performance, I decided to go to the Basement Band Series hosted by C.A.B., after I cleared it up with Professor Romanski. This series takes place every Friday night at nine. I arrived a little earlier and started to play pool while they set up the stage and took care of electronic stuff. At exactly nine, my friend and I went and sat down in front of the stage. They were still tuning their instruments and we had to wait an additional amount of about 20 minutes which really irritated me because I am extremely punctual and hate to wait. Finally, they were done with tune ups and hooked up and ready to rock and roll.

First band was called Defect By Design. I didn't catch the name until after the show because sound was just horrible. They played four songs and the first two were complete crap. It was just really heavy music, consisting of guitar, base guitar, and drums with random lyrics thrown in; which sounded like that vocal guy was screaming nonsense in the microphone. After the first song was over, me and my friend decided that maybe it was due to the fact that we were right next to the speakers so we moved back all the back. By the time we were seated, band had already started to play the second song, which was just as bad as the first one. As I was listening to it, I was thinking in my mind that who in their right mind would call that music at all. It was complete crap but apparently my friend liked it. To me, it sounded like just loud noise with screams and just kind of made me go slightly deaf. Then, the band took a three minute break during which the announced that every other week, one of their song was played on a radio station called 97X on Saturday nights at 11. While they made this announcement, for some reason, the colorful flashy lights were turned off and normal light was on and I got my first actual look at the band members. Typically, they all looked liked "emo" kids I see everywhere.

During the three minute break, I got up and got myself a free drink from a cooler, courtesy of C.A.B., and as soon as I popped the lid, they started to play again. This was actually