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leighblackWhile we were planning to go to Detroit, Julee decided to see if one of her favorite bands, Robin Black and the Intergalactic Rock Stars, would be playing anywhere near there. They're a Canadian band whose record has not been released here in the U.S. and Julee adores them. I didn't really know all that much about them, just that they're very pretty and glam. They just happened to be playing in London, Ontario, which is only about 2 1/2 hours from Ann's place. Julee asked if I would go with her and I agreed, of course. How could I deprive a friend of her dream??
I managed to pull myself out of Ann's wonderful bed around 11am or so. Julee and I gathered our belongings together. Once Ann got up we had breakfast lasagna and sat around talking. Ann told tons of stories and we looked at a bunch of her photos. Ann is one of my favorite people in the world. She's sweet and funny and I just love hanging out with her. I really wish that she lived closer to me.
Julee and I finally got back in the car, fought the Michigan traffic and crossed the border to Canada. This drive was definitely better than the long drive to Toronto, but it was still fairly boring. It looks too much like Wisconsin. We listened to Robin Black in the car, so I would have some idea about the songs. After I messed up the directions, we managed to get to our hotel and looked for the club. Our hotel was just a short drunken stumble across a parking lot from the club. Couldn't have been more perfect!
Ann called while we were getting ready to inform me that I had forgotten my pillow at her house. Damn! We decided to try to meet up the next day so I could get it back.
After eating some good greasy food, Julee & I got ready and went over to the club. It was an all ages show and that was very obvious once we walked in. There were little girls and young boys everywhere! We kinda felt like old freaks. We headed for the bar and started our happy alcohol adventure for the evening. Some really short guy with long hair went behind the bar to talk to the bartender. I asked Julee if he was in the band, and she's said "That's Robin!!" with stars in her eyes. Okay, so I know what he looks like now.
The club was hot as hell and there was no smoking inside, so we went out to the patio area. More little kids out there. Starboy was walking around the club all night and we saw Kevin appear a few times too. I missed the girl who passed out and fell over, but I did hear her go "thunk" on the patio floor. Her friends were all kind of standing around looking at her.
The bartender was very amused by the American girls who would drive all this way to see Robin Black. He & Julee had a little flirty conversation going, but all in good fun. He was nice enough to provide us with some free drinks, so it was all good. Even if he did insult the Minnesota Wild. How dare you say anything bad about my hockey team??
While we were sitting outside, the girl from the Flint & Battle Creek MSX shows with the pink pigtails showed up. The one with the horrible polka dot outfit that none of us got a good vibe from. She was with a guy and hanging out in the club and patio.
We secured a location near the stage, behind some very very very young girls. They couldn't have been more than 13 or 14. The band came on finally, I don't really know how to describe it. Robin completely takes control of that stage. He's very David Lee Roth-ish. He moves around constantly, he knows that everyone's eyes are glued to him and that he's good enough to keep them entertained. The band sounded great and they didn't seem to mind that they were in a little club instead of the bigger stages they're used to in Canada. It was just amazing to watch. Not that I got to watch most of it, as the two people next to me were pumping their arms in the air for nearly the ENTIRE show. Every time I would get a good view, I'd have an arm in my face again. Thanks. And the guy on my right had bad B.O. However, that wasn't as bad as the farting girl in front of us. Yeech!! I still somehow managed to get some good photos, which I'll try to post later this week. I have a couple of them here for your viewing enjoyment.
Robin Fucking Black
Killer Ky
Starboy
K-Tron and BB
All in all, the show was AMAZING! Even though I didn't know the songs very well, I had a blast. How could you NOT be infected by their energy?!? It made the 15 hour drive it took me to get there completely worth it!!
After the show, the band hung out in the club to talk to the fans. Julee went to the bathroom and tried to get money out of the ATM while I went to secure some merchandise. I talked to both Kevin (K-Tron) Taylor and Chris (Starboy) and asked them to sign my CD. They were both very nice and amazed that I would drive that far to see them. I saw Killer Ky come down for a little while, but he disappeared before I could talk to him. I grabbed Julee and brought her over to them and we all talked a little and got some photos together. Chris seemed very tired, but he was very nice. We heard a lot about Pretty Boy Suck, as they had toured Europe with them recently. Seems that they weren't very impressed by their musical abilities.
Me & Kevin
Me & Chris
Brent (BB McQueen) was standing by the merch table, so I grabbed him next. I asked him to sign the CD even though I know he didn't play on it. He told me that he would, although he doesn't usually do it. We got some photos with him too. All of the guys were so sweet!
Me & Brent
Next up was Robin. Julee seemed very hesitant to go talk to him, so we went back outside for a cigarette and some liquid courage. Then Julee ended up talking to some youngster named Ryan instead. I have no problems, so I went to talk to Robin. He was sitting a table with some girls, so I waited for a pause in the conversation and asked him to sign my CD. I mentioned that I had driven 15 hours to be there and he was floored. He gave me a hug and left the poor girls at the table to talk to us! He showed us his duck hand puppet and kept saying "We need to go sit down so we can talk." People kept asking him to sign stuff, so he looked for a place where we could sit without being too bothered. We were going to go to the patio so we could smoke, but Robin finally decided that we should go upstairs to talk. Like, to their dressing room upstairs. We're like, okay! Let's go!
The best part was that we walked by pink pigtail girl and she watched us get led upstairs by Robin Fucking Black! Ha!
So, we get to the dressing room and the whole band is up there chilling. Robin announces that we've driven from Detroit and we corrected him that it was really Chicago and Minneapolis. Everyone seemed very impressed by this. We got offered refreshments (which we declined) and Robin got pillows for us so we could all sit on the floor together.
So there's me, Julee and Robin Fucking Black sitting on the dirty dressing room floor, talking for almost an hour! It was so cool!! The other band members joined in on our conversation. They seemed to be more open than they had been downstairs. Like now that we had Robin's stamp of approval, we were cool. We talked about all kinds of things. Robin asked about us and what we were into and how we liked the show. We talked about them and what they were up to now. We talked about Pretty Boy Floyd and Faster Pussycat. It was so surreal!! I know Julee was dying inside the whole time, but I just thought the whole thing was really cool. They were all tired and had to drive back to Toronto yet that night, so they didn't have to do that. And we didn't have to suck any cock or do any other "groupie" activities to just hang out with the band. Robin kept offering us pizza, but it didn't look appealing.
The rest of the band was packing up and getting ready to leave, but Robin looked like he really wanted to stay and talk to us. Ky came back in the room, and we got him to sign our CDs before he took off. We got photos with Robin and had him also sign out CDs. He was more than happy to do anything we wanted! We walked back downstairs with him and he asked us to walk to the bar with him. He finally decided that he really needed to leave us to talk care of some band stuff, so he gave us each a huge hug and a kiss and thanked us for being there and driving so far. What a super sweet and amazing guy!
Me & Robin
We hung around for a little while longer to thank our friend the bartender. The youngster, Ryan, that Julee had been talking to earlier, decided to hit on us. Oy vey! The bar was closed, so I couldn't figure out why he was there and why he wouldn't take no for an answer. He kept putting his arm around me and saying that we should go party. Yeah, uhh no. Sorry dude. His friend went after Julee, but we managed to disengage ourselves from them and stumble across the parking lot, back to the hotel.
What a fucking awesome night!! I'm just upset that my photo with Robin turned out blurry. Otherwise, it couldn't have been more perfect!
My photos from the show
Julee's photos from the show
Robin Black and the Intergalactic Rock Stars
I managed to pull myself out of Ann's wonderful bed around 11am or so. Julee and I gathered our belongings together. Once Ann got up we had breakfast lasagna and sat around talking. Ann told tons of stories and we looked at a bunch of her photos. Ann is one of my favorite people in the world. She's sweet and funny and I just love hanging out with her. I really wish that she lived closer to me.
Julee and I finally got back in the car, fought the Michigan traffic and crossed the border to Canada. This drive was definitely better than the long drive to Toronto, but it was still fairly boring. It looks too much like Wisconsin. We listened to Robin Black in the car, so I would have some idea about the songs. After I messed up the directions, we managed to get to our hotel and looked for the club. Our hotel was just a short drunken stumble across a parking lot from the club. Couldn't have been more perfect!
Ann called while we were getting ready to inform me that I had forgotten my pillow at her house. Damn! We decided to try to meet up the next day so I could get it back.
After eating some good greasy food, Julee & I got ready and went over to the club. It was an all ages show and that was very obvious once we walked in. There were little girls and young boys everywhere! We kinda felt like old freaks. We headed for the bar and started our happy alcohol adventure for the evening. Some really short guy with long hair went behind the bar to talk to the bartender. I asked Julee if he was in the band, and she's said "That's Robin!!" with stars in her eyes. Okay, so I know what he looks like now.
The club was hot as hell and there was no smoking inside, so we went out to the patio area. More little kids out there. Starboy was walking around the club all night and we saw Kevin appear a few times too. I missed the girl who passed out and fell over, but I did hear her go "thunk" on the patio floor. Her friends were all kind of standing around looking at her.
The bartender was very amused by the American girls who would drive all this way to see Robin Black. He & Julee had a little flirty conversation going, but all in good fun. He was nice enough to provide us with some free drinks, so it was all good. Even if he did insult the Minnesota Wild. How dare you say anything bad about my hockey team??
While we were sitting outside, the girl from the Flint & Battle Creek MSX shows with the pink pigtails showed up. The one with the horrible polka dot outfit that none of us got a good vibe from. She was with a guy and hanging out in the club and patio.
We secured a location near the stage, behind some very very very young girls. They couldn't have been more than 13 or 14. The band came on finally, I don't really know how to describe it. Robin completely takes control of that stage. He's very David Lee Roth-ish. He moves around constantly, he knows that everyone's eyes are glued to him and that he's good enough to keep them entertained. The band sounded great and they didn't seem to mind that they were in a little club instead of the bigger stages they're used to in Canada. It was just amazing to watch. Not that I got to watch most of it, as the two people next to me were pumping their arms in the air for nearly the ENTIRE show. Every time I would get a good view, I'd have an arm in my face again. Thanks. And the guy on my right had bad B.O. However, that wasn't as bad as the farting girl in front of us. Yeech!! I still somehow managed to get some good photos, which I'll try to post later this week. I have a couple of them here for your viewing enjoyment.
Robin Fucking Black
Killer Ky
Starboy
K-Tron and BB
All in all, the show was AMAZING! Even though I didn't know the songs very well, I had a blast. How could you NOT be infected by their energy?!? It made the 15 hour drive it took me to get there completely worth it!!
After the show, the band hung out in the club to talk to the fans. Julee went to the bathroom and tried to get money out of the ATM while I went to secure some merchandise. I talked to both Kevin (K-Tron) Taylor and Chris (Starboy) and asked them to sign my CD. They were both very nice and amazed that I would drive that far to see them. I saw Killer Ky come down for a little while, but he disappeared before I could talk to him. I grabbed Julee and brought her over to them and we all talked a little and got some photos together. Chris seemed very tired, but he was very nice. We heard a lot about Pretty Boy Suck, as they had toured Europe with them recently. Seems that they weren't very impressed by their musical abilities.
Me & Kevin
Me & Chris
Brent (BB McQueen) was standing by the merch table, so I grabbed him next. I asked him to sign the CD even though I know he didn't play on it. He told me that he would, although he doesn't usually do it. We got some photos with him too. All of the guys were so sweet!
Me & Brent
Next up was Robin. Julee seemed very hesitant to go talk to him, so we went back outside for a cigarette and some liquid courage. Then Julee ended up talking to some youngster named Ryan instead. I have no problems, so I went to talk to Robin. He was sitting a table with some girls, so I waited for a pause in the conversation and asked him to sign my CD. I mentioned that I had driven 15 hours to be there and he was floored. He gave me a hug and left the poor girls at the table to talk to us! He showed us his duck hand puppet and kept saying "We need to go sit down so we can talk." People kept asking him to sign stuff, so he looked for a place where we could sit without being too bothered. We were going to go to the patio so we could smoke, but Robin finally decided that we should go upstairs to talk. Like, to their dressing room upstairs. We're like, okay! Let's go!
The best part was that we walked by pink pigtail girl and she watched us get led upstairs by Robin Fucking Black! Ha!
So, we get to the dressing room and the whole band is up there chilling. Robin announces that we've driven from Detroit and we corrected him that it was really Chicago and Minneapolis. Everyone seemed very impressed by this. We got offered refreshments (which we declined) and Robin got pillows for us so we could all sit on the floor together.
So there's me, Julee and Robin Fucking Black sitting on the dirty dressing room floor, talking for almost an hour! It was so cool!! The other band members joined in on our conversation. They seemed to be more open than they had been downstairs. Like now that we had Robin's stamp of approval, we were cool. We talked about all kinds of things. Robin asked about us and what we were into and how we liked the show. We talked about them and what they were up to now. We talked about Pretty Boy Floyd and Faster Pussycat. It was so surreal!! I know Julee was dying inside the whole time, but I just thought the whole thing was really cool. They were all tired and had to drive back to Toronto yet that night, so they didn't have to do that. And we didn't have to suck any cock or do any other "groupie" activities to just hang out with the band. Robin kept offering us pizza, but it didn't look appealing.
The rest of the band was packing up and getting ready to leave, but Robin looked like he really wanted to stay and talk to us. Ky came back in the room, and we got him to sign our CDs before he took off. We got photos with Robin and had him also sign out CDs. He was more than happy to do anything we wanted! We walked back downstairs with him and he asked us to walk to the bar with him. He finally decided that he really needed to leave us to talk care of some band stuff, so he gave us each a huge hug and a kiss and thanked us for being there and driving so far. What a super sweet and amazing guy!
Me & Robin
We hung around for a little while longer to thank our friend the bartender. The youngster, Ryan, that Julee had been talking to earlier, decided to hit on us. Oy vey! The bar was closed, so I couldn't figure out why he was there and why he wouldn't take no for an answer. He kept putting his arm around me and saying that we should go party. Yeah, uhh no. Sorry dude. His friend went after Julee, but we managed to disengage ourselves from them and stumble across the parking lot, back to the hotel.
What a fucking awesome night!! I'm just upset that my photo with Robin turned out blurry. Otherwise, it couldn't have been more perfect!
My photos from the show
Julee's photos from the show
Robin Black and the Intergalactic Rock Stars
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Date: 2003-08-25 01:53 pm (UTC)AWWWWW
Date: 2003-08-27 03:26 am (UTC)That was a great story! thanks for sharing it. I'm very impressed that Robin had a solid Blue in his hair. As you and I both know that is a very hard thing to maintain. I don't think our weekend at the cabin will stand up to this. Much more tame, that's for sure. I'm glad you had fun honey! With your stories, it's always best in person. Hand signals , gestures and all!
Re: AWWWWW
Date: 2003-08-27 04:02 am (UTC)