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BDF Live at Orange Bear!
Monday, December 3rd, 2001
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This was an "Open Stage" set-up going on, and thankfully, Mike Michelob actually got there
at 7 to sign up the band, because the list turned out to be 8 bands. (The rest of the band
was uptown at Grassroots paying far less for their beers.) A full-length set list had
been prepared, but the band was told they could only play 4 songs. After some discussion,
it was decided that "Anthem" and "Latrell" could be combined to count as one song. "This One's
On The House" and "Bitch Stole My Dog" are musts in any BDF set. To decide the other songs,
2 more were pulled randomly out of a hat. It turned out the two selected were "Lisa Smoke" and
"Sheena Is A Punk Rocker", two songs BDF had never performed before live. When their turn came, BDF jumped on stage, plugged in, and were ready to rock. Well, almost... Richie Rheingold had misplaced the lyrics to "Lisa Smoke", so the band quickly decided to go with "Meet Me At The Bar" as a replacement. The band rocked out as usual! After the short set, a few other loyal fans showed up, mere minutes after BDF had left the stage. Not wanting to disappoint anybody who came out to see them, they negotiated the ability to play "one more song" after the other bands on the sign-up list had finished. After sitting through a George Harrison memorial set and a Russian metal band (who, sadly, did not play "Berserker" of Clerks fame), BDF got a chance to go back on stage. The lyric sheet for "Lisa Smoke" had somehow mysteriously reappeared on the bar, so they played that first. Steve St. Ides broke a string halfway through the song, but rocked on! As the crowd shouted "one more!" and the sound man agreed, BDF ripped into "Avenues And Alleyways" and played it with an intense energy. As they ended the song, they thanked their fans, thanked the bar, finished their beers, and soon left as the place began to close up for the night (and it was barely 11pm). "BDF has left the building." |
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Since it was an "Open Stage" type setting, we were told we could only play 4 songs... Of course, our songs aren't that long, so we decided to squeeze a few more in... After picking songs out of a hat, here's what we played: Anthem Latrell Meet Me At The Bar Sheena Is A Punk Rocker (first time this was performed live!) This One's On The House Bitch Stole My Dog A couple of Mike Michelob's friends "from Idaho" showed up late, so we managed to convince them to let us play a couple more songs, since they missed the first set... if you can even call 6 songs a "set"... For the encore, we played: Lisa Smoke (the dramatic debut of this song!) Avenues and Alleyways (broken string and all!) If you don't know the lyrics by now, well... you should! |
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