My First Deerhoof Show

No Responses · May 30, 2008

Deerhoof - Empty Bottle, 2003After seeing that M83 are pla­ying at The Empty Bottle in Chi­cago on their upco­ming tour, I was remem­be­ring that it was the place I first saw Deerhoof, in the sum­mer of 2003. I deci­ded to retroac­ti­vely add the show to Last.fm, and in searching for the pro­per date I came across this pos­ter at Gig­Pos­ters.

I think I remem­ber wan­ting to steal it with Ben. What I know I remem­ber is tal­king to Greg and Satomi before the show, and them wal­king away awk­wardly when I fai­led to recog­nize that we had stop­ped tal­king and that I was just grin­ning at them.

I bought five CDs, two t-shirts, and Greg gave me a drink tic­ket as thanks. I used to keep it but I think I’ve since thrown it away.

Ben was un-ironically wea­ring a Meta­llica t-shirt, and I remem­ber fin­ding that amu­sing. He also scor­ned the guy from No Doc­tors because, as a doc­tor, he deci­ded to take their name per­so­nally. To which the guy said: “No Doc­tors need doc­tors; and doc­tors need No Doc­tors.” I think he was the flautist.

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