Posted by Icky (64.160.22.240) on January 08, 2003 at 01:23:50:
Appy-polly-logies to those who tried to go the LFOT show that was scheduled on Tuesday night at the Gig on Melrose in Hollywood. Further cementing my faith in humanity, another example of why I hate 99% of humans, the show was cancelled due to our poor singer Derek ("Trent", as he's affectionately known to some) being reluctantly relieved of some of his more expensive, cherished personal possessions by no doubt a pillar of the community who must've thought Derek too encumbered by all of that evil, costly electronic equipment he owned. The nameless saint of a person also saw to it that Derek (and the rest of us, for that matter) should take the night off (and maybe the next year, thank you very much!) from such vigorous, physical activity as performing is, by sparing Derek the burden of using his self-built onstage-hard-drive that runs our show (with all of the loops, midi-guitar changes, light show, etc.). This mountain of virtue obviously thought, selflessly enough, that he and his friends could benefit far greater than we from the abundance of complex, sophisticated components, nothing more than material distractions for those so devoid of soul as we, merely distracting ourselves with these "toys" from what's really important in life. They believed so whole-heartedly that Derek did not fully appreciate the extensive digital studio gadgets that he paid for with his hard-earned money that he squandered away in chasing such trivial pursuits like, say, music - that they needed to teach him a lesson by depleting him of his Hard drive, his monitor, his speaker monitors, his keyboards, his CD's, his rare guitars, even his bed sheets, to truly show him the error of his ways by not fully appreciating what he had. That he so foolishly would pay extra rent to live in what is commonly referred to as a "security building". That he would put his trust so blindly into a dead-bolt lock. That he would imagine that others in his building would actually notice and care that something suspicious was going on next door.
I guess Derek finally learned his lesson.
In about a year, keep an ear out for a new, up-and-coming group with a new sound that's taking the country by storm, all created in their own home, using nothing more than a home computer...
I'm just sayin'