School of Fish
In part, I went to this show to see King Missile as the billed opener, but something happened and they didn't perform. It was a bummer, but the night ended up getting weirder and weirder. One member of the group I went to the show with was a very attractive woman, and at the show she met Jay Blumenfield, the guitarist for the band Too Much Joy. He bought her a number of Jagermeister shots during School of Fish's performance and she became more than a little bit drunk. She also knew School of Fish frontman Josh Clayton-Felt, and Josh invited us to come to an afterparty at the Limelight, the church-turned-music-venue on Sixth Avenue at West 20th Street.
So my group, with Jay from Too Much Joy in tow, walked over to the Limelight for the afterparty. I was already starting to have misgivings about staying out too late, as it was a weeknight and I was on the air at WHTG at 6 AM the following morning. When we got to the Limelight, though, the bouncer wouldn't let in the woman who was full of Jagermeister because she was too intoxicated. (And, if you knew the Limelight, being too drunk to get in there was really saying something.) She insisted that someone go get Josh from School of Fish to help us get in, but even he couldn't do anything. The bouncer made our friend stand on one leg and she couldn't do it at all.
So I told our group that maybe it's time we headed home anyway. Jay from TMJ, however, said that it would be a great time to go out and get food. Others agreed, so we went to an all-night restaurant with a great jukebox whose name I can't now recall. We ended up eating and talking until quite late into the night. I have no idea if Jay got the woman's number, but I got Jay's number. He said he would come down to WHTG to hang out with me on my show sometime, but it never happened.
sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!
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my very faded ticket stub from the show
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