APRIL 8, 2008
Connecticut
said goodbye to Public Access with a disgusting, sweaty, surging throng of
humanity like none we’ve ever seen before. Due to the various logistical issues
we seem to encounter on every roadtrip, we arrived
roughly 3 hours late to the show crammed into Chris’ Mazda 3. We essentially
hopped out of the car, made our way through the massive crowd that had gathered
in the parking lot because they literally couldn’t fit any more people into the
hall, plugged into the Tsunamis’ shit and played our little set. Everything in
the room was steaming and moist from the mass of people crammed inside,
including all our instruments (if you were there, you know what I’m talking
about- Derek described it as “trying to play drums with two hotdogs”, or, in
Chris’ eloquent terminology, “walking into a giant asshole”.) What we
definitely lacked in precision was made up for by the most ridiculous crowd
reaction I may have ever witnessed. Connecticut has always been pretty good for
us, but this was over-the-top. There were times throughout the set when I could
no longer hear Chris or Matt singing over the sound of a hundred mustachio’d kids screaming every word. Crowdsurfing left and right. Headwalking,
even- a practice I thought died out in the late ‘90s. Not in Connecticut, my
friends. Not in Connecticut. Thank you, New England, for your enthusiasm. I won’t
forget it anytime soon. We followed the show up with absolutely triumphant
feast at the Wallingford Chili’s, paid for entirely with our gas money from the
show- perhaps the first time any of us have ever enjoyed our band funds for
anything other than gas or merch or recording time or
saxophone reeds… We all realized then that even though it took us seven years, we
fucking made it.
We
move onward this weekend to our final shows, ever, in our adopted hometown of Syracuse and our actual hometown
of Albany. It’s almost impossible to describe how it feels to stare down the
end of an era, but we’re all excited to throw down a few more times with some
of our best friends and some of the best bands in the world. It will be one
hell of a weekend, and we hope to see you all there.
Back
to business! Greg at Community
Records is opening up a limited record/CD pre-order beginning Thursday,
April 10th. Anyone who can’t make the final shows can order their
very own copy of “Hindsight” on their choice of obsolete musical format at
extremely reasonable prices- however, keep in mind
that QUANTITIES ARE VERY LIMITED! Get on that shit and get on it early, or you
just might get shut out. Any copies leftover from our
farewell shows will be put up for order through our
Myspace
starting April 13th, but don’t count on it. WWW.COMMUNITYRECORDS.ORG, people.
The
end is nigh!
-Jay/PA