"An Evening Of Extraordinary Circumstance"

All right! It was so fuckin' cool. One of the best shows I've ever been to. Great time from the minute we walked through the doors. I can only be talking about Saturday November 7 2009 at The Troubadour. The Lawrence Arms!!! Yeah, I'm sure it was no Metro show but man did we have a good time. Me and DieXanna had Dogs of War hats made to honor our allegiance to The Bad Sandwich Chronicles. The second we walked through the door I'm like "Head to the merch booth booth before my size t-shirt sells out"(which it did-fast). But before we could get to the merch booth we are getting yelled at by some drunk dude. That drunk dude just happened to be "The Blogmaster" Brendan Kelly. He was like "Dude your fucking hats are so rad. I'm at a loss for words." He was so excited to see that we Dogs of War actually appreciate his Blog. So we chatted for a while then I made my way to the merch booth to get my goodies. Then the merch guy is like "Whoa, nice fuckin' hats dude!" and we talk and he introduces himself. It's Sean Nader, Brendans friend who drew the 10th anniversary show t-shirt/concert poster design. Well he was so stoked that he gave us one of the limited to 200 copies hand numbered posters. So I bought my merch and then watched Madison Bloodbath. They were pretty good. I actually really enjoyed their set. When they were done we went to the bar to get a drink and met the guitarist and singer of Madison Bloodbath. They were really cool dudes. Then Cobra Skulls came on and rocked the fucking house! They were a band I was really excited to see. They were fucking awesome! Such energy, and unlike some bands they sounded just like the recording(if not better) when playing live. They finished up and it was back to the bar for more drinks when who did we find there this time??? Tennessee Hennessy! Thats right Neil Hennessy the multi tasking drummer of TLA. We talked took a pic with him and bailed out to see Teenage Bottlerocket. They were good and played a bunch of cool songs. Back to the bar for another drink and then the highlight of the night The Lawrence Arms rocked the fuck out!!! What a great show! So everyone is clearing out of the club and I tell my wife hey lets hang out for a minute. What was just going to be a minute turned out to be all night. We were getting yet another drink when who do we see now at the bar??? Matt Skiba and Brendan kickin back. So we go over get a couple pics with them and talk for a while then we go downstairs and see Chris McCaughan the guitarist for TLA. We talked with him for a moment and got a pic...then back to the bar where we continue to party with Sean Nader, Matt Skiba, Madison Bloodbath guys, TLA guys, Teenage Bottlerocket guys, and Hiro the photographer(and nicest guy ever). We all hung out until the bar kicked us out and then we all moved outside and talked even more. The show ended at about 11:45pm and we didn't leave The Troubadour until about 3am. Wow! What a good time. Thanks to the bands for playing and being so cool. Thanks for Matt and Brendan for putting up with my drunk ass(I'm sure I was a little annoying I was really drunk and kept asking them band related questions). My wife said I kept saying "Let me ask you one more question.....". Thanks to Sean Nader-what a rad dude. Sean was down to earth and cool. The whole band was. This is why I love The Larry Arms they are not only great musicans but great people too. Coolest night ever we got lots of pics. I was so excited from meeting all they guys that I could not sleep when we got home so I listened to all the records I bought and had one last beer before crashing out. A great night not to be forgotten soon.