Circle Jerks in Ventura May 22 2028
So, I packed the family up and we drove 2.5 hours to ventura to see the Circle Jerks, Gorilla Biscuits and 7 seconds. great fucking show, one of the greatest.
when we get there my wife and daughter and I went to the merch booth cause we both love band shirts and band merch and my daughter is 10 so she goes where we go. My son ditched us immediately and went into the stage room and somehow made his way on the the barrier in the front row.
So, we get there for 7 seconds, they put on an awesome show. Then Gorilla Biscuits came out and they were even better, insane energy. People were stage diving and crowd surfing. I was gonna do the crowd surfing thing but I thought better of it, don’t need a slipped disk in my back from being dropped LOL. I tried to get my son to do it but he wouldn’t.
Then in between the Gorilla Biscuits and the Circle Jerks sets, this drunk guy come up and tries to elbow his way into my sons spot on the railing. He’s clearly drunk and being an asshole. So my elbow ends up pressing into his kidney the whole time he’s trying to push people out. Then he tries to give me dirty looks; I wasn’t having it. I gave dirty looks back. About that time a cool dude next to my son left the railing for a smoke, so I took his spot and drunky tries to start muscling his way in again.
So, my son put his elbow in the dude’s ribs and leaves it there. He tries to start talking shit to my son, and so I tell him, “there’s no room for you up here, get out of here drunky.” and he tells me, "yeah, we’ll see what happens when the the show starts. Trying to act all hard while keeping his balance and holding his Circle Jerks vinyl and his drink.
So, I say, “nothing, nothing will happen. He’s here now and you ain’t doin’ shit. so leave, drunky, before you find out what happens before the show starts.” He says again “when the show starts.”
I said “yeah, well see.”
Meanwhile my son is back to talking to the people around him (who also didn’t like the drunk dude) on the railing. I start talking to an old dude next to me, who was around during the start of punk. cool dude.
Shortly after the Circle Jerks take the stage (around the 3rd song) drunky comes up from behind and starts pushing my son on the head. So proud of my son, my son turns around and throws the guys hands off of his head and tell hims FUCK OFF.
Now, normally I don’t condone my son swearing (my rule is you have to pay taxes, pay bills or have a job before you can swear in my family, but certain times call for certain exceptions) at that point security comes over and grabs my son and tells him he has to go.
I try to tell security that the guy is drunk and he’s beating on people. Security basically says he doesn’t care and continues to try to pull my son over the railing. I try to tell the security again (i never touched security) it’s the drunk guy beating on people.
At that point security lets go of my son and grabs me. I’m like WTF?! I, of course, am not going… easily at least. So this security guy starts to try to man handle me, so I pull his white trash ass into the pit over the railing. shit back fired on his inbred ass (been working out solid the past year, I’m pretty dense now, down from 275 lbs to 201lbs as of yesterday. mostly muscle, still got about 20lbs of fat to go before I’m about 12% body fat) and at that point his hilly billy twin security brother (I swear they were twins, definitely related, looked exactly alike and dressed alike, both wearing overalls, bass pro shop hats, pedophile mustaches. You know the thin sparsely populated lip, the “been trying to grow a stash since I was 18 and have never shaved and I’m 39 now mustache…” looked like his brother was his dad) comes up from behind me and puts me in a full nelson and drags me out of the venue telling me I’m banned for life and the other security guy I dragged into the pit now has my son saying we’re both banned.
Now let me back track a bit, while we were in the front watching Gorilla Biscuits (where my son got handed a guitar pic from the guitarist!!!) and 7 seconds, there were like 3 security guards in front of us, being way cool, catching crowd surfing kids, making sure no one got hurt, giving water to people. We were talking with them between sets, all the people in the front were talking with them between sets… but those guards were not there during the Circle Jerks set as the Circle jerks took the stage they rotated out. BUT one of them was outside the venue where we got dragged out. He was on “the outside door” duty.
He looks at us and apologetically says you can’t go back in. I plead our case. I said "I have no idea what just happened, some drunk guy was beating on him (pointing at my son) and he turned around and threw the drunk guy’s hands off of him, and security threw us out. Cool security guy says "I’m sorry, guys, they didn’t tell me what happened, but I can’t let you back in.
So, I tell the cool security, “look dude, my wife and daughter are in there, in the back, if you just let us go back in, we’ll go to the back and stay away from the pit. there won’t be any more problems, were not trying to get anyone in trouble.”
Cool security said “hold up a second.” He radioed someone. then this short middle aged white lady immediately shows up and asks us, “what happened?”
I tell her the story, that the drunk guy was beating on this kid (pointing to my son) and when he threw drunky’s hands off of him, then security tried to throw him out. I tried to tell security it was the drunk guy, but then they threw me out too.
She looks at the both of us and says “ok, go back in.”
I said, “What? just like that?”
She said, “that other guy is gone, he’s been been thrown out, he’s gone. Go back in, Have a good time.” I said cool.
So, as we were walking back down the hall into the venue from the “outside door,” the 2 other security guys that were cool, that were at the stage for the Gorilla Biscuits and 7 Seconds were in the hallway telling us the drunk guy was gone and for us to come back 
I thanked them again for being the coolest security at a punk show, gave 'em hugs. My son got his spot back on the railing. So, the people at the railing ('cause they knew what went down between sets, and didn’t like drunky either), I guess made themselves wide so drunky couldn’t get my son’s spot. So, the only thing I can think is drunky started fights with those people too and got kicked. So, when my son got back to the railing the people made themselves small again screamed “welcome back, brother!” and my son reclaimed his spot. I just went up and sat with my wife and daughter, kinda took the gas outta the evening for me. Pumped my son up though, fucker thought he was invincible.
So, I’m still trying to figure out what happened. That middle aged lady believed what I said so quickly. Which, you know, was good 'cause I wasn’t lying. I can’t imagine the people in the front were able to let security know they fucked up. I don’t know if they have cameras and the lady was head of security and saw what happened on the video if they had it. I don’t know if the fans at the railing pointed out the drunk guy. I don’t know if drunky started attacking other people. I don’t know what happened, but we were let back in and drunky got kicked.
THEN Keith Morris addressed my son because my son kept yelling out “BAD WORDS” cause he was hoping they would play that song and so Keith said, “Oh. bad words? like piss, shit, fuck, marjorie taylor green?”
So, it was a wild show.
I think my favorite part of the show (aside from being let back in LOL) was they were about to start playing beat me senseless and a fight broke out in the pit. and Keith stops the song and says “NO!! NO!!! We will not provide the soundtrack to your violence.” Then refused to play until that shit was squashed.
then when we got back to the car, my wife apparently picked up a nail cause our tire pressure was 20 lbs on the rear driver side, so we had to find a gas station (one next to in n out as luck would have it) I pumped it up to 40 lbs. we went to in n out and then drove home for 2 hours.
So, yeah, holy shit was today packed!!
Got Primus in July and Socail D in october!!!
