The Industrial Strength Tour wraps up today. Next up is Ministry at Welcome to Rockville (May 19-22, Daytona Beach, FL) and Louder than Life (September 22-25, Louisville, KY). I would go see Ministry at Louder than Life if I could, but it’s unfortunately not possible. Anyone considering these festivals?
I don’t do big festivals any more. Too much of a pain.
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Mostly butt rock at Rockville…
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Yeah, I was wondering about that. I would do it only to see Ministry. And down here in New Orleans it’s Jazzfest time. Same thing, giant festival, giant crowds. But since I live here if Ministry ever played JazzFest I would go. Traveling to festivals isn’t cheap like it was when I was in college a long long time ago!
For the most part I really don’t care to bother with festivals. I prefer to just have good tickets to see the few bands I love from a close distance. Festivals are kind of fun, but I have to detach myself a bit and just go to clown around. I’m typically only invested in one or two bands anyway. I have to prep just for a one-night small gig and give myself a day or so to recuperate. I don’t really have it in me to do 14 hours of madness with 12 bands or whatever, haha. I do look back fondly at the times where I was on board with it. I remember the first three Lollapaloozas and getting there early and just soaking the whole scene up from start to finish. But that was 30 years ago, hahaha!!! At that time I also saw no issue with getting picked up by my buddies at 2am to sit on a curb in front of Tower Records for 8 hours to get tickets for something. Fuck that shit.
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My curb sitting days are over too!!!
Now it’s just me in my office, door closed, phone and PC open and credit card leaning against my monitor as I watch a goddamned countdown clock on the Ticketmaster site. And I get stressed the fuck out too and wanna kill a mofo when things don’t work out, hahahaha!!! 15 minutes of my precious day . . . but 30 years ago spending 10 hours on this shit, shivering outside with our Thermos’ of coffee, didn’t even make us flinch.
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Yeah back in the 80s out go to ticketmaster place(or whatever it was called pre-ticketmaster) down here in Miami was a Spec’s record store in the Westland Mall…for big shows that line would stretch all the way down the mall and out the door to the parking lot sometimes…but at least we were inside with air conditioning…we would wait in those lines for hours and never bat an eye…plus there was a Hickory Farm store across the way in the mall that gave out free samples of summer sausage and smoked cheese…so all the stoners waiting in line would take samples…they eventually got wise and did away with it haha…ah the good old days…
HAHAHAHAHA!!! That’s the best! It kinda reminds me of when I was a shitty little skate punk in Junior High. There were these shopping centers that we’d always skate around, and there were like 6 or 7 businesses that we’d frequent and/or get routinely chased away from . . . . Kristy’s Donuts, 7-11, Osco Drug, Carl’s Jr.
This was like 85/86 and Carl’s was one of the first to roll out the “unlimited self-serve refills” at the soda machine (kids nowadays will never understand that there was a day when soda refills was not in our country’s bill of rights).
Anyway, we all just kept a cup in one of the bushes, and would get “free soda” whenever we pleased. The cups were so shitty sometimes… sticky, dirty, falling apart, and you’d sometimes have to knock the ants off it before filling up. We were such dirtbags. Off topic, yeah, but the grubbing of samples made me remember this, haha.
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Hahaha crusty cups…funny how we didn’t give a flying fuck…a free refill is a free refill…
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