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On This Day (10/31): Brand New, Leonard Cohen, Chelsea Hotel

Brand New / Thrice / The Builders and the Butchers (10/31/2009; Verizon Wireless Theater, Houston, TX)

As I wrote earlier this month, it’s weird to discuss Brand New now. But putting all that aside, this was a really incredible show. I remember Thrice came out dressed as Star Wars characters, though I’ve never been a fan of them. Brand New were dressed as old school prisoners with the black and white stripes and came out to an intro video of a jailbreak, with sirens and such. They were absolutely fantastic on this night, just tearing through every song you could want to hear from them. Daisy had just come out, but the setlist was culled from their entire career. It was my first time seeing Brand New and it was unforgettable.

Chelsea Hotel (10/31/2010; Mango's Cafe, Houston, TX)

Weird show. I guess this was an old school punk band that had been around for a long time. A friend of a friend knew them and asked me to go. It was a fun time from what I remember, at least until we left and found that her car had been broken into and her purse stolen. Shit happens.

Leonard Cohen (10/31/2012; Bass Concert Hall, Austin, TX)

This was absolutely one of the most magical nights of my life. Leonard Cohen was and forever will be one of my greatest idols as a writer and a poet. I’ve told this story a million times, but the weekend before, I ran into Cohen at the Austin Book Festival. I happened to be walking down the street, and there he was. He wasn’t hard to recognize in his suit and hat, just like he always wore on stage. I spoke to him for a moment, kissing his ass about his books (I’m sure he didn’t hear that much, being known so much more for his music). He was thankful and he moved on with his day, only for my friend to point out to me that we had been standing in the middle of the street when I stopped him and we both could have been killed. My bad.

I had been planning to skip this show because it was so expensive, but I took that as a sign, so I bought a ticket off a woman from Craigslist. What transpired was absolutely one of the greatest shows I’ve ever seen. Cohen was just such an outstanding performer and singer. His band was fantastic. I later found out that the reason Cohen had been bumming around Austin at the book festival the week before the show was because most of his band taught music at the University of Texas. Go figure. Crazy coincidences in this world.

I really can’t express how much this show meant to me. It was overwhelmingly powerful and beautiful, and I’ve very rarely seen anything like it. Cohen passed away a few years ago, of course, and this was my sole opportunity to see him. I’ll forever be grateful to have met him and to have seen him perform. It is one of the highlights of my life, and a constant inspiration to me as a writer even now.

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On This Day (2/13): Screaming Females

2/13/2010; Mango’s, Houston, Texas

This is one of the best random shows I’ve ever been to. A bit of background, my parents were discussing splitting up at this time and my dad went to stay at a hotel. I ended up going with him. This only lasted a few days, but it was a bizarre experience. I don’t know what motivated it all now; those memories have washed away with time. I do remember though that I could not sleep in the hotel and I eventually returned home, quickly followed by my dad.

One of those sleepless nights in the hotel, I was preoccupied with Valentine’s Day coming up the next day. I was single and, with all the things going on with my parents, it just seemed to be a great big joke that I would be sitting alone on Valentine’s Day. I still wax and wane on this subject, years later. I enjoy being alone one minute, and I wish I was with someone at another. But it doesn’t occupy as much of a space in my mind as it did as a teenager.

I decided I couldn’t just lay there anymore, so I got up and drove downtown. I had one Screaming Females album at the time (Power Move) and I thought they were a good band, but I hadn’t had any plans on actually going to see them.

I ended up at the show, but it wasn’t much of a show. I walked into the bar, Mango’s, and ordered a beer because they were pretty damn lax about checking IDs. Then I sat around and wondered where everyone is. I ended up having a conversation with one of the maybe five people that were there on the patio while smoking a cigarette. “Did you pay to get in?” he asked. I told him I had not, and he swore to himself. “They need to get a door guy over there,” he said. I later learned he was the bassist for Screaming Females.

The trio took the stage a while later to a smattering of claps. The crowd had gotten to be, at best, ten people deep. It was a damn travesty how few people showed up that night, because what I saw next blew my mind.

Screaming Females put on one of the loudest, craziest punk rock shows I had ever been to at that point. It did not matter one iota to them that there was almost no one watching them and surely they would be going home broke after the show. They destroyed that with a passion and fury I’ve rarely seen before or since.

I hold this show in a high esteem. It brought me, if even for a moment, out of a deep funk, and awakened me to how beautiful and incredible a show could be, even with only ten people dancing along. I admire the hell out of Screaming Females for that. Even now having seen them many times and having loved every minute of it, that night will never be topped. Shame more people didn’t experience it.

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