Date: Friday, June 18th, 1999 - Location: Pennfield Beach, Fairfield, CT

Fairfield beachfest, eh? That's what we said. With a generous helping hand from WNHU, we opened the main stage up for the day of the festival. We didn't open the festival. Technically, that was Stub Pullman, who later somewhat morphed into Sterves of Neil (featuring Plastic Soul's Jeff Craig, a.k.a. George Harrison, to Dave's a.k.a. Paul McCartney, and also Vitamin Tramp's Joe Sastre a.k.a. Ringo Starr, and ah-hell, Skully's Downfall's [and currently of LA's 'The Adored'] Drew Bayers a.k.a. John Lennon), whose drummer went on to play with Helmet's Page Hamilton in Ghandi, and then not. Sorry, tangent.

We shared the stage with Gargantua Soul, Splice (whose singer now heads another of Dave's bands, Sick Ticket), Joe, Eclectic Nobodies, Zero Chance, and probably a dozen other bands. We all decided it would be cute to play in hawaiian-style shirts. But then we realized it was just plain gay. Dave immedeately left and started driving south for the Clearwater Folk Fest at which place exactly one year ago, "Look At Yourself" was birthed.

Date: July, 1999 - Location: Laszlo's Arts Cafe

It was a trial show, of sorts. A trial of a show containing almost no cover material. We were relying on only original songs to get us through the set. It worked! We left with our confidence refueled!

We opened for old high school friends of Dave's, The Limit, another Milford band. They played a lot of rock and roll. It was even blistering at one point. It got even the most lethargic attendee's heart pumping.

Date: August 10th, 1999 -Location: Bridgeport Bluefish Baseball Stadium, Bridgeport, CT

We opened for a baseball team! Weird, eh? There's a little stage between the parking lot and the front door of the stadium. Everyone that saw the ball game that night saw us playing our rock songs.

 

Date: August 14th, 1999 - Location: Brian's Back Yard

Our fourth time playing this summer neighborhood gig. It's not the fact that we played there for four years in a row, just that we played four years in a row somewhere. The party's host, Mr. Woodcock holds a ticket signed by each member of the band which he believes will be worth a lot of money someday. We're rooting for him.

Date: August 15th, 1999 - Location: Kevo's Basement

We were supposed to play, but only practiced in front of two or three friends.  In the basement.  It was raining.

 

Date:August 17th, 1999 - Location: Toad's Place

This was it. This was the gig we waited our entire lives for. We headlined the local's night at Toad's Place. Sharing the bill was Deep and The Degenerates. The Aggressors didn't show up. We drew in lots of friends and family. 112 to be exact. At this point, we could have retired and lived the rest of our natural lives in peace and happiness.

Date: August 22nd, 1999 - Location: the Milford Green, in front of Dunkin' Donuts

A very fun gig to play. We caught the attention of many pedestrians and 4 toddlers. I'm sure the people in the the crafts section heard us, too. Zena, Warrior Princess opened for us. She was quite a bodybuilder. Quadrafonic followed us.

Date: August 24th, 25th, 1999 - Location: SongLab, New Haven

We drove Brian's tan van full of equipment to record some of our sounds. From 7pm-4am, we got down Look At Yourself, Anything for You, and Lying To Myself in that order. Good stuff.