| The Great Lynx show- Jeff's slap in my face for not audtioning him in Torrod 1 and then watching our big HoJo's show go down in a flame of technical disasters. Only for him to team up with Andy a year later and put on the largest metal fest Norwich has ever seen with some type of nuclear powered turbo rocket injected speaker cabinets and exploding SMART missles and a light show borrowed from Van Halen's 1550 tour... or as legend would have it. The truth is that this show was most famous for Andy being a spaz after another stellar drum solo and slipping off the top level stage and dangling upside down from a chain barrier. I was living in Los Angeles during this collosus event and Andy came to visit and brought the video. Bryan Guter and myself must have rewound the video 50 times and laughed our asses off every time at him just hanging there. Actually, that was the only gaff of the whole night and it was quite a triumph to be able to pull something off like this. The crowd reaction was quite deafening and though Jeff is still in his infancy as a lead vocalist I'll bet the show gets him hard everytime he thinks about it. I'm sure it sounded incredible in the hall but video tends to bring out the flaws and Lynx was still very young and raw. And to my benefit they didn't get any older. It's better to burn out than fade away! Wish I had burned with them. |
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Lights, Camera, Traction! What a show! We rocked Norwich! Check out the perm and spandex. I am so glad that part is over at least. I do miss my youth and the fun we had building that beast. AJ and I spent much of our time building and piecing together. We had a blast. Hey Andy, remember when we stole the stainless steel pods from the salvage yard with the rented u-haul? We never did use them for anything. We were the kings of the area (or at least we thought we were...pompous asses!). I remember rehearsals in the Bern Furniture building before this show. Andy James did this thing with lighter fluid on his cymbals and drumsticks. He lit the stix and when he hit the cymbals they would catch fire. It really was cool. The problem was, after we built the six and a half foot drum riser, AJ was close to the ceiling where the smoke wired alarms and the sprinklers were nearby. I'll leave the rest to your imagination! The chain which Tom refers to when AJ slipped off the riser and was caught with was actually a last minute thing which I screwed to the stage to give it a little more heavy edge. It was just lying around as were some extra screws or lags so I couldn't let them go to waste. We left no rock unturned. As it turns out, if that chain wasn't there, AJ probably would have hit the floor. Of course, if someone hadn't accidentally tipped over someone's pitcher of ice water, AJ may have never slipped in the first place. By the way, it has always bugged me that I missed my cue to introduce Chad Darrah after his guitar solo. So here goes... Lady’s and gentlemen, on guitar to my right; Chad Darrah! And the crowd goes wild. There. This will haunt me no more. All ended well. Especially my jump from the riser at the end. You'll notice I did a split for my dismount and stuck the landing. The crowd scored a perfect "10". So we celebrated by lifting each other to the ceiling and busting out ceiling tiles. What more could anyone ask for?
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